The longest sampling trawl of tiny ocean creatures called plankton is under way across the Pacific, where little is known about these critters that make up the base of the ocean's food web. Scientists ...

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Narragansett Bay is one of the most studied estuaries in the world, and its long-running URI plankton survey offers important historical context for the past half-century in the bay. Recent analysis ...

A new study used log books from 60 years of plankton research to document the increase in the amount of plastic in the ocean. The study’s authors tabulated the entanglements of the continuous plankton ...

In a major pan-European study, a research team from Germany have successfully extracted environmental DNA (eDNA) from as many as 218 lakes to refute a long-year belief that vital microorganisms do not ...

A study was undertaken to compare two methods commonly used to determine plankton's populations: the Net Plankton Method and the Plankton Centrifuge Method. Water samples for biological analysis were ...

URI researchers estimate that in Narragansett Bay, the level of tiny plantlike creatures called phytoplankton has dropped by half in the last half century, based on new analysis of a long-term time ...