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Physical Controls on Phytoplankton Would you expect a fall bloom of phytoplankton? What would end it?

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Page 1: Physical Controls on Phytoplankton Would you expect a fall bloom of phytoplankton? What would end it?

Physical Controls on Phytoplankton

Would you expect a fall bloom of phytoplankton? What would end it?

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• What do phytoplankton need to grow?– Light– Nuitrients

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• Where are Nutrients?

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• Why?

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• Where is the light?

• Where is the sun?

• So for phytoplankton to grow, nutrients must be brought to where the light is.

• Water must move up!

• How?

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• Mixed layer cycle

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• When bloom?

• When enough

light?

• When shallow

enough?

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• Coastal Upwelling.

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• Where is coastal upwelling important?

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• What about the open ocean?

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• What open ocean winds can drive upwelling?

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• Results…

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• What happens next?

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• Iron Story…

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• Iron Story -- winds carry dust. Atmosphere matters too!

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• What happens after the Nutrients come up into the light?