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Dance of the Plankton

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Plankton are tiny creatures that drift in the sunlit surface layer of the sea, and their choreography is conducted by sunlight and nutrients. Light only penetrates the…

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Aquaculture and Mariculture

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Most of marine aquaculture is not sustainable and is actually taking away protein from the human population. Around 1990, the wild capture fisheries leveled off at 95…

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Marine Food Chains

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Marine food web structures differ greatly from those on land; plankton build up organic matter through photosynthesis that is consumed by secondary consumers, tiny…

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Deltas under Pressure

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In this chapter, Karl Statteger discusses coastal geology and river mouth systems and deltas. Rivers form deltas at their mouth and bring high quantities of sediment to…

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Alien Species Migrations and Range Shifts

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This chapter examines two major factors that lead to changes in local species communities - climate change and the human-driven transportation of marine organisms…

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Coastal Ecosystems

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Protecting coastal ecosystems means protecting the coasts, and may be effective in fighting sea level rise. Coastlines see the interaction between human population…

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The Ocean’s Biological Pump

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Half the oxygen we breathe comes from tiny phytoplankton that live in the sunlit surface layer of the ocean. They consume carbon dioxide in photosynthesis, but much of…

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Life in the Deep-Sea

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Although the deep sea has been thought of as inhospitable and barren, it is populated by a huge diversity of organisms and is one of the most exotic ecosystems on earth…

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Evolution and Marine Biodiversity

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Marine life adapts to the extreme and unique conditions deep in the ocean. Of the probably more than one million species in the oceans, at least four-fifths are…

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Threats from the Sea Bed

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What is a tsunami and how does it occur? 80 percent of tsunamis are produced when earthquakes displace the sea floor, and the rest are from landslides underwater. There…

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Ecosystem and Nutrient Management

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This chapter presents a positive example of marine management with nutrient management in the Baltic Sea and shows that it is essential to have effective international…

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Ocean Heat Storage and Sea Level

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This chapter discusses how sea level is affected by things like surface temperature and ocean heat. The temperature of the ocean determines the phase of the water and…

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Ocean Evolution

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This chapter examines ocean evolution on long geographic timescales. This video is licensed under the CC BY-NC-SA license. Learn more at…

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Oceans and Fisheries

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This lecture looks at human interaction with oceans and aquaculture, and the adverse effect it has had on marine ecosystems and well as fisheries. This video is not…

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Resilience and Adaptation in the Ocean

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This chapter looks at how marine ecosystems reacts to human pressure and the resilience of the system. Nutrient pollution is a problem in marine ecosystems because…

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Q&A | Nina van Toulon, Richmond Kennedy…

Q&A | Nina van Toulon, Richmond Kennedy Quarcoo, & Anna Rufas Blanco | 2018 Oct. 18

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In this live session, Nina van Toulon, Founder of the Eco Flores Foundation and Initiator at the Indonesia Waste Platform, speaks with Richmond Kennedy Quarcoo from…

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