Blue whale surfacing_AngelaSzesciorka_CCE-LTER
A blue whale surfaces off the coast of California, where the whales congregate to feed on krill in the summer months.
episodic
R/V Roger Revelle at sea, one of the research vessels CCE uses to investigate primary production, carbon export,
and plankton food web structure.
iron supply
Sampling with a Trace Metal-clean rosette.
el niño and warm
Pleuronocodes planipes, the pelagic red crab, which increases markedly in abundance in the CCE region during most El Niños.
double integration
The Integrated Pacific Decadal Oscillation index (PDO, red) nicely predicts the variation in an important species of krill (Nyctiphanes simplex, blue) in the CCE site.
optimized satellite
Satellite-estimated Carbon Export Flux (mg C m-2 d-1) from the new CCE-LTER MERGED product.