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Research Highlights from Marine Board Members

  • Highly active bacteria community found at the bottom of the Mariana Trench (SAMS, AWINature Geoscience)

  • An iron fertilization experiment by nature: scientists assess the impact of Icelandic volcanic ash on ocean biology (NOC, Geophysical Reseach Letters)

  • Tunicates could be used as a renewable source of biofuel, claim researchers at University of Bergen and Uni Research

  • Smooth seafloor at Southwest Indian Ridge is composed of altered mantle rocks exhumed by faults (CNRSNature Geoscience)

  • Algae from melting arctic ice sinks to the sea floor causing rapid ecosystem changes (AWI, Science)

  • Life deep within the oceanic crust appears to be sustained by energy released from chemical reactions between rocks and water (Ifremer, MARUM, Science)

  • Worm steals food from a cold water coral but helps the coral builds its skeleton, a symbiosis of mutual benefits (NIOZ , PLOS One)

  • Seasonal patterns in planktonic metabolism in the European Arctic (CSIC, Biogeosciences)