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icey_mark • December 11, 2012

This morning I posted my 10,000 tweet.

Reduced Sea Ice in the Arctic Spurs Phytoplankton Blooms : satellite pics from summer 2012 http://t.co/amq6zvfi

— Mark Brandon (@icey_mark) December 11, 2012

Whilst I am not sure if 10,000 is significant, I pointed to the brilliant NASA Earth Observation www site which has a wonderful post today about the reduction of sea ice increasing phytoplankton growth in the Arctic. (Be sure to click the “image comparision” button on that page).

Sat picture from 10 July 2011 showing milligrams of chlorophyll per cubic meter of seawater. From the Aqua Satellite

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Posted in At sea, Science. Tags: antarctica, Arctic, habitat, polar, satellite, sea ice on December 11, 2012 by icey_mark.