Plankton Blooming under Thinning Arctic Sea Ice (IMAGE)

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Plankton Blooming under Thinning Arctic Sea Ice

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Areas of the Arctic Ocean capable of permitting blooms of phytoplankton under sea ice in July. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the March 29, 2017, issue of Science Advances, published by AAAS. The paper, by C. Horvat at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass., and colleagues was titled, 'The frequency and extent of sub-ice phytoplankton blooms in the Arctic Ocean.'

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[Credit: Christopher Horvat]

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