{"id":4536,"date":"2016-01-11T12:07:24","date_gmt":"2016-01-11T17:07:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=4536"},"modified":"2016-01-18T01:20:50","modified_gmt":"2016-01-18T06:20:50","slug":"icebergs-leave-trail-of-carbon-trapping-plankton-in-their-wake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/icebergs-leave-trail-of-carbon-trapping-plankton-in-their-wake\/","title":{"rendered":"Icebergs leave trail of carbon-trapping plankton in their wake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SMCC-english2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-110\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SMCC-english2.jpg\" alt=\"SMCC-english2\" width=\"255\" height=\"126\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Melting water from giant icebergs travelling across the Southern Ocean supports the growth of phytoplankton, which is responsible for as much as 20 per cent of the carbon trapped in\u00a0the depths of the ocean. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These icebergs enhance phytoplankton productivity for hundreds of kilometers, and their effects persist for at least one month after the iceberg has passed. The melting water contains iron and other nutrients which allows the phytoplankton to grow. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The authors of the study believe these icebergs may play an outsize role in the Southern Ocean carbon cycle. The team\u00a0analysed satellite images of ocean colour, an indicator of phytoplankton productivity, which were associated with a range of icebergs at least 18 km long, in the open Southern Ocean. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nature.com\/articles\/doi:10.1038\/ngeo2633\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Original research paper<\/span><\/a>\u00a0published in <em>Nature Geoscience\u00a0<\/em>on <strong>January 11<\/strong><span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_453723367\"><span class=\"aQJ\"><strong>, 2015<\/strong>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><strong>Names and affiliations of selected\u00a0author<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<h4 class=\"grid grid-12 tiny-space-below\">Grant R. Bigg, Sheffield,\u00a0Department of Geography, University of Sheffield,\u00a0Sheffield,\u00a0United Kingdom<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Melting water from giant icebergs travelling across the Southern Ocean supports the growth of phytoplankton, which is responsible for as much as 20 per cent of the carbon trapped in\u00a0the depths of the ocean. These icebergs enhance phytoplankton productivity for hundreds of kilometers, and their effects persist for at least one month after the iceberg [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[1445,2451,171,215],"class_list":["post-4536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-conservation","tag-earth-system","tag-ecology","tag-environment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-1ba","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4536"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4538,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4536\/revisions\/4538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}