Category: Blooms
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A video (in french) about interactions in phytoplankton blooms
The title says it all. This is a video I put together with some images and results of mine, and some CC BY images and music. Big thanks to all the people who create and share CC BY media on Commons, Free Music Archive and elsewhere on the web. Enjoy. This video itself is under…
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A bloom of Alexandrium, from every angle
When I wrote last month’s post, I didn’t expect it to be relevant this soon, yet you will see that it is a fitting introduction for this one! A few days ago at the beginning of June, while scrutinising Sentinel-2 images of the Loire river turbid plume, my PhD supervisor spotted red patches in the…
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Looking at microbes from space
If your goal is to look for marine microorganisms, putting a drop of seawater under a microscope seems the most straightforward way. Sometimes, however, taking a step back can reveal even more. We’re talking about a big, 786-km step back – the altitude of Sentinel-2, a constellation of Earth observation satellites launched by the European…
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