Zooplankton seen under a microscope at the Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences in East Boothbay ... disarray and threatening the entire marine food chain that is built on them.

How is organic matter transported from productive coastal areas to the open ocean? Researchers have now shown that eddies play a crucial role in this process. The swirling currents contain large ...

Mesoscale eddies, oceanic gyres about 100 kilometers in diameter, are ubiquitous features of the global ocean and play a ...