Tiny Shells Indicate Big Changes to Global Carbon Cycle

Katherine E Kerlin — May 25, 2017 - 4:31pm

Experiments with tiny, shelled organisms in the ocean suggest big changes to the global carbon cycle are underway, according to a study from the University of California, Davis.

For the study, published in the journal Scientific Reports, scientists raised foraminifera — single-celled organisms about the size of a grain of sand — at the 69�� Bodega Marine Laboratory under future, high CO2 conditions.

Robot Larvae Deployed at Sea

Katherine E Kerlin — August 31, 2016 - 4:30pm

Scientists from the University of California, Davis, are deploying “robot larvae” into the ocean at Bodega Bay, just north of San Francisco.

These robots mimic clouds of microscopic marine larvae, such as baby crabs, mussels, clams and rockfish. The data the bots bring back provide some of the first direct confirmation of a decades-old and surprisingly contentious scientific mystery: Where do marine larvae go, how do they get there and back, and what allows them to do this?

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Tiny Shells Indicate Big Changes to Global Carbon Cycle

Robot Larvae Deployed at Sea