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News Release 06-143

Researchers Link Ice-Age Climate-Change Records to Ocean Salinity

Water is saltier during cold, fresher with tropical rain

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A living planktonic foramanifera from subtropical waters of the Atlantic Ocean.

A planktonic foraminifera lives in the subtropical waters of the Atlantic Ocean.

Credit: Howard Spero, UC-Davis/NSF


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