The Continuous Plankton Recorder Survey has been using recorders on merchant shipping routes in the north Atlantic Ocean for more than 70 years and has analyzed more than 250,000 samples in ...

Dalhousie University researchers analyzed data collected over more than half a century to assess how two types of ...

Five hundred data points collected from 13 vessels sounds impressive, but David Johns, head of the Continuous Plankton Recorder Survey, describes it as "a literal drop in the ocean." ...

The plankton in the world’s oceans are being affected by climate change, according to experts, but a claim spreading on social media gives a particularly dire assessment of the situation ...

Continuous Plankton Recorder Survey, About the CPR Survey, accessed July 27, 2022. Browse the Truth-O-Meter More by Andy Nguyen Instagram posts ...

Historical biomonitoring of pollution trends in the North Pacific using archived samples from the continuous plankton recorder survey. Science of The Total Environment , 2022; 161222 DOI: 10.1016 ...

Plankton are the backbone of the ocean — and may struggle with what’s coming. A pair of papers in the journal Nature shows how plankton are struggling to survive in warming seas.

Nearly century-old studies of marine plankton and the rise of manmade chemicals found in the ocean could be used to measure the impact on human activity on ecosystem health as well as study ...

Phytoplankton populations in the North Atlantic Ocean have declined by about 2% per year over the past 60 years, with regional exceptions. Diatoms have increased in proportion relative to ...

The Continuous Plankton Recorder cruises the North Atlantic. Marine Biological Association photo The world’s oceans remain 95% uncharted, impacting us in ways we may not fully grasp.

To assess future impacts of warming waters on plankton, Schmidt and her colleagues turned to ancient changes. The team analyzed an extensive fossil record of a type of plankton called foraminifera ...