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Tag: Pacific Ocean

Exploring how bacteria and deep-sea life survive together

Photo of Roxanne Beinart.

GSO Assistant Professor Roxanne Beinart was awarded $1.3 million to continue her work in researching deep-sea animals and their bacterial symbionts.

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Tagged as:National Science Foundation Pacific Ocean Roxanne Beinart symbiosis

Passing clouds cause some marine animals to make mini-migrations

Photo from space of clouds above the ocean.

The nightly trek of small marine animals from the ocean depths to the surface has been called the largest migration on Earth, and new research led by GSO’s Melissa Omand finds that some zooplankton swim up and down in response to shifts in light due to cloud cover as well.

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Tagged as:Melissa Omand NASA NASA EXPORTS Pacific Ocean plankton

Deep sea microbes dormant for 100 million years are hungry and ready to multiply

Magnified image of microbes revived from 101.5 million-year-old sediment

In a new study, researchers reveal that given the right food in the right laboratory conditions, microbes collected from sediment as old as 100 million years can revive and multiply, even after laying dormant since large dinosaurs prowled the planet.

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Tagged as:microbes microbiology Pacific Ocean Steven D'Hondt

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