Tag Archive: phytoplankton

Australian bushfires spawn massive phytoplankton bloom

September 16, 2021 8:26 am Published by Comments Off on Australian bushfires spawn massive phytoplankton bloom

The Australian bushfires of the 2019/2020 summer had far-reaching effects. It has now been revealed in new research published in Nature that the smoke produced a phytoplankton bloom larger in area than all of Australia, thousands of kilometres away in the Southern Ocean between New Zealand and South America.

RP4 Teleconnections & Variability Report – December 2020

December 14, 2020 11:45 am Published by Comments Off on RP4 Teleconnections & Variability Report – December 2020

It has been remarkable how much we have achieved in this extraordinarily difficult year. Research coming out of the Teleconnections and Variability program over the past four months has strongly focused on how influences in one part of the world can have direct impacts on another.

RP4 Variability & Teleconnections report – December 2020

December 12, 2020 5:11 pm Published by Comments Off on RP4 Variability & Teleconnections report – December 2020

It has been remarkable how much we have achieved in this extraordinarily difficult year. Research coming out of the Teleconnections and Variability program over the past four months has strongly focused on how influences in one part of the world can have direct impacts on another.

UTas01: Numerical simulation of physical and biogeochemical processes in the ocean near Australia

May 6, 2019 3:19 pm Published by Comments Off on UTas01: Numerical simulation of physical and biogeochemical processes in the ocean near Australia

In this project, the selected student will use a one-dimensional numerical ocean model to simulate and understand the physical and biogeochemical processes in the ocean near Australia. The student will utilise the long-term oceanographic measurements conducted at one of the National Reference Stations maintained by the Australian Integrated Marine Observing System (i.e., the Maria Island, the Port Hacking, and the Rottnest Island).

Research brief: If dimethyl sulfide emissions ceased, Earth would warm 0.5C in a decade

August 15, 2018 12:12 pm Published by Comments Off on Research brief: If dimethyl sulfide emissions ceased, Earth would warm 0.5C in a decade

The study finds important regional consequences for precipitation and clouds formation if large changes in dimethyl-sulfide emissions were to occur.  In a hypothetical case where all marine DMS emissions cease completely, we find the Earth would warm by approximately 0.5 degrees C over a ten-year period.