{"id":1218,"date":"2026-01-23T21:10:25","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T21:10:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/currents.bigelow.org\/?p=1218"},"modified":"2026-01-23T21:10:26","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T21:10:26","slug":"boom-to-bloom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/currents.bigelow.org\/?p=1218","title":{"rendered":"Boom to Bloom"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MWizEmBq9rk\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you had to choose one instrument to observe microscopic marine life, would a satellite come to mind? Perhaps not. But when you\u2019re studying the connection between volcanic eruptions and phytoplankton abundance, satellites actually work extremely well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The <strong>Volcanic Blooms<\/strong> project, a collaboration between <strong>Bigelow Laboratory<\/strong> and <strong>Colby College<\/strong>, is trying to better understand the impacts of volcanic eruptions on phytoplankton communities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In this video, senior research scientists <strong>Karen Stamieszkin<\/strong> and <strong>Cath Mitchell <\/strong>explain how they use satellites hundreds of miles up in the sky to understand the role of ash on marine productivity.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-a89b3969 wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-text-align-center wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bigelow.org\/news\/articles\/2023-12-12-2.html\">Learn More about the Volcanic Blooms Project<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you had to choose one instrument to observe microscopic marine life, would a satellite come to mind? Perhaps not. But when you\u2019re studying the connection between volcanic eruptions and phytoplankton abundance, satellites actually work extremely well. The Volcanic Blooms project, a collaboration between Bigelow Laboratory and Colby College, is trying to better understand the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1219,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","css_class_manager_body_classes":"","css_class_manager_use_in_post_loop":false},"categories":[11],"tags":[50,55,64,35,14,96],"class_list":["post-1218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science-ocean-function","tag-ben-twining","tag-catherine-mitchell","tag-karen-stamieszkin","tag-phytoplankton","tag-satellites","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/currents.bigelow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/currents.bigelow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/currents.bigelow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/currents.bigelow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/currents.bigelow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1218"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/currents.bigelow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1220,"href":"https:\/\/currents.bigelow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1218\/revisions\/1220"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/currents.bigelow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/currents.bigelow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/currents.bigelow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/currents.bigelow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}