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The problem of tiny, hard-to-detect plastic particles in Earth's oceans.
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A report on microbead (microplastic) pollution and its effect on marine life.
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The effects of climate change on marine ecosystems.
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Learn why urinating in the ocean is not chemically damaging to it.
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Learn about plankton, microscopic life-forms that drift in ocean currents and form...
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Zonation of the ocean. Note that in the littoral zone the water is at the high-tide...
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Cycling of silica in the marine environment. Silicon commonly occurs in nature as...
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Figure 1: Generalized aquatic food web. Parasites, among the most diverse species...
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Galatheid crabs and shrimp grazing on the bacterial filaments that grow on the shells...
Dr. Robert W. Embley—PMEL/NOAA
Figure 4: Life cycle of a palinurid lobster.
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Algae, primarily diatoms, dinoflagellates, and coccolithophorids, which are often...
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The upwelling process in the ocean along the coast of Peru. A thermocline and a nutricline...
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A food chain in the ocean begins with tiny one-celled organisms called diatoms. They...
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