Mar 30, 2017
Solving the Mystery of the Arctic’s Green Ice
Solving the Mystery of the Arctic’s Green Ice
In 2011, researchers observed something that should be impossible — a massive bloom of phytoplankton growing under Arctic sea ice in conditions that should have been far too dark for anything requiring photosynthesis to survive. So, how was this bloom possible?
Using mathematical modeling, researchers from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) found that…
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