The longest sampling trawl of tiny ocean creatures called plankton is under way across the Pacific, where little is known about these critters that make up the base of the ocean's food web. Scientists ...

A study was undertaken to compare two methods commonly used to determine plankton's populations: the Net Plankton Method and the Plankton Centrifuge Method. Water samples for biological analysis were ...

Using samples from an almost century-old, ongoing survey of marine plankton, researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine suggest that rising levels of manmade chemicals found ...

Study co-author Nelson Javier Aranguren-Riaño and fellow hippo project researchers captured a variety of ecological data, including oxygen levels, water chemistry and audio soundscapes. Disclaimer: ...