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		<title>The ocean’s color is changing as a consequence of climate change</title>
		<link>https://darwinproject.mit.edu/the-oceans-color-is-changing-as-a-consequence-of-climate-change/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Jul 2023 16:14:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The color changes reflect significant shifts in essential marine ecosystems. Read this story at MIT News The ocean’s color has changed significantly over the last 20 years, and the global trend is likely a consequence of human-induced climate change, report scientists at MIT, the National Oceanography Center in the U.K., and elsewhere. In a study &#8230; <a href="https://darwinproject.mit.edu/the-oceans-color-is-changing-as-a-consequence-of-climate-change/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">The ocean’s color is changing as a consequence of climate change</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Testing the skill of a species distribution model using a 21st-century virtual ecosystem</title>
		<link>https://darwinproject.mit.edu/testing-the-skill-of-a-species-distribution-model-using-a-21st-century-virtual-ecosystem/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Nov 2021 19:38:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bardon, L. R., Ward, B. A., Dutkiewicz, S., &#38; Cael, B. B. (2021), Testing the skill of a species distribution model using a 21st-century virtual ecosystem, Geophysical Research Letters, doi: 10.1029/2021GL093455 Description: Plankton communities play an important role in marine food webs, in biogeochemical cycling, and in Earth&#8217;s climate; yet observations are sparse, and predictions of how they might respond to climate change vary. Correlative species &#8230; <a href="https://darwinproject.mit.edu/testing-the-skill-of-a-species-distribution-model-using-a-21st-century-virtual-ecosystem/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Testing the skill of a species distribution model using a 21st-century virtual ecosystem</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Abrupt shifts in 21st-century plankton communities</title>
		<link>https://darwinproject.mit.edu/abrupt-shifts-in-21st-century-plankton-communities/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Nov 2021 16:05:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[B.B. Cael, Stephanie Dutkiewicz, Stephanie Henson (2021),  Abrupt shifts in 21st-century plankton communities, Science Advances, doi: 10.1126/sciadv.abf8593 Description: Marine microbial communities sustain ocean food webs and mediate global elemental cycles. These communities will change with climate; these changes can be gradual or foreseeable but likely have much more substantial consequences when sudden and unpredictable. In a complex virtual marine microbial &#8230; <a href="https://darwinproject.mit.edu/abrupt-shifts-in-21st-century-plankton-communities/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Abrupt shifts in 21st-century plankton communities</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Future phytoplankton diversity in a changing climate</title>
		<link>https://darwinproject.mit.edu/future-phytoplankton-diversity-in-a-changing-climate/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Sep 2021 14:23:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Stephanie A. Henson, B. B. Cael, Stephanie R. Allen &#38; Stephanie Dutkiewicz (2021), Future phytoplankton diversity in a changing climate, Nature Communications, doi: 10.1038/s41467-021-25699-w Description: The future response of marine ecosystem diversity to continued anthropogenic forcing is poorly constrained. Phytoplankton are a diverse set of organisms that form the base of the marine ecosystem. Currently, ocean biogeochemistry and ecosystem &#8230; <a href="https://darwinproject.mit.edu/future-phytoplankton-diversity-in-a-changing-climate/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Future phytoplankton diversity in a changing climate</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Moving ecological and biogeochemical transitions across the North Pacific</title>
		<link>https://darwinproject.mit.edu/moving-ecological-and-biogeochemical-transitions-across-the-north-pacific/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 May 2021 17:40:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Christopher L. Follett, Stephanie Dutkiewicz, Gael Forget, B.B. Cael, Michael J. Follows (2021), Moving ecological and biogeochemical transitions across the North Pacific, Limnology and Oceanography, doi: 10.1002/lno.11763 Description: In the North Pacific Ocean, nutrient-rich surface waters flow south from the subpolar gyre through a transitional region and into the subtropics. Along the way, nutrients are used, recycled, and exported, leading &#8230; <a href="https://darwinproject.mit.edu/moving-ecological-and-biogeochemical-transitions-across-the-north-pacific/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Moving ecological and biogeochemical transitions across the North Pacific</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Study reveals uncertainty in how much carbon the ocean absorbs over time</title>
		<link>https://darwinproject.mit.edu/study-reveals-uncertainty-in-how-much-carbon-the-ocean-absorbs-over-time/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Apr 2021 14:34:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Helen Hill]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Climate projections could be off by five years, Darwin Group researchers find. Read this story at MIT News The ocean’s “biological pump” describes the many marine processes that work to take up carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and transport it deep into the ocean, where it can remain sequestered for centuries. This ocean pump is &#8230; <a href="https://darwinproject.mit.edu/study-reveals-uncertainty-in-how-much-carbon-the-ocean-absorbs-over-time/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Study reveals uncertainty in how much carbon the ocean absorbs over time</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Reconciling the size-dependence of marine particle sinking speed</title>
		<link>https://darwinproject.mit.edu/reconciling-the-size-dependence-of-marine-particle-sinking-speed/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2021 16:34:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Helen Hill]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[B. B. Cael, Emma L. Cavan, and Gregory L. Britten (2021), Reconciling the size-dependence of marine particle sinking speed, Geophysical Research Letters, doi: 10.1029/2020GL091771 Description: Sinking particles are critical to the ocean’s ‘biological pump’, sequestering carbon from the atmosphere. Particles’ sinking speeds are a primary factor determining fluxes and subsequent ecological and climatic impacts. While size is a key determinant &#8230; <a href="https://darwinproject.mit.edu/reconciling-the-size-dependence-of-marine-particle-sinking-speed/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Reconciling the size-dependence of marine particle sinking speed</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Metals from Chinese coal plants are ending up in the Pacific Ocean, with uncertain consequences</title>
		<link>https://darwinproject.mit.edu/metals-from-chinese-coal-plants-are-ending-up-in-the-pacific-ocean-with-uncertain-consequences/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2020 15:28:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Though marine life may benefit from the influx of iron, Simons Collaboration on Ocean Processes and Ecology (SCOPE) research involving Mick Follows and former Darwin Group member B.B. Cael reinforces that the pollution from burning coal will have an adverse effect on human health finds emissions. Read this story at USC News missions from coal-fired power &#8230; <a href="https://darwinproject.mit.edu/metals-from-chinese-coal-plants-are-ending-up-in-the-pacific-ocean-with-uncertain-consequences/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Metals from Chinese coal plants are ending up in the Pacific Ocean, with uncertain consequences</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Anthropogenic Asian aerosols provide Fe to the North Pacific Ocean</title>
		<link>https://darwinproject.mit.edu/anthropogenic-asian-aerosols-provide-fe-to-the-north-pacific-ocean/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2020 15:16:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Paulina Pinedo-González,  Nicholas J. Hawco,  Randelle M. Bundy,  E. Virginia Armbrust,  Michael J. Follows,  B. B. Cael,  Angelicque E. White,  Sara Ferrón,  David M. Karl, and  Seth G. John (2020), Anthropogenic Asian aerosols provide Fe to the North Pacific Ocean, PNAS, doi: 10.1073/pnas.2010315117Description: Fossil-fuel emissions may impact phytoplankton primary productivity and carbon cycling by supplying bioavailable Fe to remote &#8230; <a href="https://darwinproject.mit.edu/anthropogenic-asian-aerosols-provide-fe-to-the-north-pacific-ocean/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Anthropogenic Asian aerosols provide Fe to the North Pacific Ocean</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Fourth Annual Traits Workshop</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Aug 2019 18:29:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reporting by Helen Hill for the MIT Darwin Project The fourth Workshop on Trait-Based Approaches to Ocean Life, held August 18-21, 2019 at Chicheley Hall in Buckinghamshire in the UK was a wonderful opportunity for Darwin Group members to catch up with former colleagues while sharing current directions in marine ecology viewed through a traits &#8230; <a href="https://darwinproject.mit.edu/fourth-annual-traits-workshop/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Fourth Annual Traits Workshop</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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