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News Release 09-007
Conference Features Climate Change, Predatory Jellyfish, Other Hot Topics in Marine Science
National Science Foundation-funded research results presented at 2009 American Society of Limnology and Oceanography Conference
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Scientist Kakani Young of Caltech uses a new particle image system in Jellyfish Lake, Palau.
Credit: John Dabiri, Caltech
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Jellyfish known to scientists as Mastigias follow the sun in Palau's Jellyfish Lake.
Credit: John Dabiri, Caltech
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The protein ferritin, its crystal structure shown here, from a diatom, a planktonic creature floating in the oceans; ferritin fuels the diatom's growth.
Credit: Michaela Parker, Virginia Armbrust, et al., University of Washington
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What doliolids, relatives of sea squirts that can exist in huge numbers called blooms, eat in the oceans is a mystery.
Credit: Gus Paffenhofer
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Limnologists study phytoplankton in Lake Superior at the Deep Chlorophyll Maximum, graveyard of the algae.
Credit: NOAA
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The jumbo squid is a top predator in the eastern tropical Pacific Ocean.
Credit: Brad Seibel
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