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Phytoplankton Bloom Northeast of San Jorge Gulf, Argentina
Argentina – October 29th, 2012 Shades of electric blue and green created swirled, yet somewhat jagged, patterns off the coast of Argentina (click here for previous images of the bloom). The bloom is...
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Sediments and Phytoplankton Along Argentine Coast
Argentina – October 30th, 2012 An electric blue phytoplankton bloom hangs in the waters off the coast of Argentina, southeast of the Valdés Peninsula. A faint trail of phytoplankton can also be...
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Phytoplankton Bloom Off Coast of Chubut Province, Argentina
Argentina – November 1st, 2012 Under the correct conditions, phytoplankton reproduce extremely rapidly, forming blooms large enough to be seen from space. To produce such blooms, phytoplankton need...
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Phytoplankton in San Matías Gulf and Near Valdés Peninsula, Argentina
Argentina – November 4th, 2012 A green and blue phytoplankton bloom continues to flourish off the coast of Argentine Patagonia (click here for previous images of the bloom). Also visible here is some...
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Phytoplankton Bloom Still Flourishing Off Argentine Coast – November 12th, 2012
Argentina – November 10th, 2012 A phytoplankton bloom continues to flourish off the coast of Argentine Patagonia, tinging the Atlantic’s waters bright shades of blue and green. The bloom has be present...
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Phytoplankton Bloom by Argentina and Falkland Islands
Argentina – November 13th, 2012 The phytoplankton bloom that has been present off the Argentine coast since October (click here for previous images) continues to flourish, adding green and blue hues to...
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Green and Blue Phytoplankton Off Coast of Argentine Patagonia – November...
Argentina – November 14th, 2012 Phytoplankton continues to create blue and green patterns in the waters of the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Argentine Patagonia (click here for previous images). Some...
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Remnants of Phytoplankton Bloom Off Argentine Coast
Argentina – November 28th, 2012 The faint remnants of a phytoplankton in the waters of the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Argentine Patagonia (click here for previous images) can be seen in this...
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Etosha Pan and Phytoplankton Near Namibia Coast
Namibia – December 3rd, 2012 Visible by the right edge of this image is the Etosha Pan, a large endorheic salt pan, forming part of the Kalahari Basin in the north of Namibia. The 120-kilometre-long...
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Dust and Phytoplankton by Argentine Coast – December 11th, 2012
Argentina – December 8th, 2012 A phytoplankton bloom that began off the coast of Argentine Patagonia in October can still be seen here, two months later (click here for previous images). The bloom is...
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Phytoplankton Bloom Still Present Between Valdés Peninsula and San Jorge...
Argentina – December 13th, 2012 Over two months after its first appearance, a phytoplankton bloom is still visible off the coast of Argentina (click here for previous images). The teal green bloom is...
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Phytoplankton Blooms Off Argentine Coast
Argentina – January 20th, 2013 Phytoplankton can be observed in the waters off the coast of Argentina. One bloom is present in and east of San Jorge Gulf, in the upper left quadrant. The other can be...
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Fjords of Western Greenland, Sediments, Phytoplankton and Climate Change
Greenland – January 26th, 2013 Greenlandic fjords are located at the junction between the ocean and the Greenland Ice Sheet and therefore sensitive to future climate change. However, little is known...
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Phytoplankton Bloom Off Coast of France – April 20th, 2013
France – April 20th, 2013 A phytoplankton bloom can be seen in the Bay of Biscay off the west coast of France, near the mouth of the Gironde Estuary. The sediments spilling out of the estuary appear...
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Phytoplankton Bloom Off Coast of France
France – April 25th, 2013 A phytoplankton bloom can be seen off the coast of France, in the Bay of Biscay, roughly parallel to the French shoreline (click here for previous image). The bloom appears...
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Phytoplankton Bloom in Bay of Biscay, Near Spain and France
Bay of Biscay – May 4th, 2013 A large phytoplankton bloom stains the waters of the Bay of Biscay, between Spain (below) and France (upper right), a greenish color. The bloom has been present in this...
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Sediments and Phytoplankton in the Black Sea – May 10th, 2013
Black Sea – May 9th, 2013 Swirls of light blue and green phytoplankton and sediment are visible near the shores of the Black Sea. The Black Sea drainage basin encompasses almost one third of Europe,...
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Phytoplankton in the Black Sea
Black Sea – May 23rd, 2013 A phytoplankton bloom can be observed in the Black Sea, coloring its usually dark blue waters a paisley pattern of lighter blue. Putting together the biomass of all the...
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Phytoplankton of Gulf of Carpentaria, Australia – May 28th, 2013
Australia – May 28th, 2013 The phytoplankton of the shelf waters of the Gulf of Carpentaria, Australia, is basically a diatom flora, distinctly different from the oceanic, predominantly dinoflagellate...
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Sediments and Phytoplankton by Melville Island, Australia – June 3rd, 2013
Australia – June 1st, 2013 Sediments cause the coastline of Australia’s Northern Territory to appear bright shades of gold and green, particularly in the Joseph Bonaparte Gulf (lower left quadrant) and...
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Phytoplankton Bloom Off Coast of Ireland – June 5th, 2013
Ireland – June 4th, 2013 Phytoplankton blooms are a common phenomenon, caused by microscopic plants that float in the upper, sunlit layers of the ocean. When large numbers of phytoplankton are...
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Green and Blue Phytoplankton Bloom Southwest of Ireland and UK
Ireland and UK – June 4th, 2013 Phytoplankton are possibly the most important group of organisms on the planet as they generate most of the oxygen that we breath. Also, as they convert inorganic...
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Phytoplankton Blooms by Ireland and Scotland
Ireland and UK – June 6th, 2013 A phytoplankton bloom, created by millions of microorganisms, continues to turn the waters southwest of Ireland bright shades of blue and green. A second, fainter bloom...
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Sediments and Phytoplankton by Argentine Patagonia
Argentina – June 8th, 2013 Sediments and phytoplankton can be seen off the coast of Argentine Patagonia. The greenish plume of color streaming northeastward off Peninsula Valdes (center) is likely...
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Phytoplankton Near King Sound, Australia
Australia – June 10th, 2013 Sediments color the waters of King Sound, in north-west Australia, famous for its tides that can reach up to 11.8 m (the second biggest tides in the world, after the Bay of...
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