First Antarctic Freeze Brought New Plankton (3 of 5) (IMAGE)

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First Antarctic Freeze Brought New Plankton (3 of 5)

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Photograph taken from the RV JOIDES Resolution during IODP Expedition 318 off Wilkes Land, Antarctica. This image relates to a paper that appeared in the April 19, 2013, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by Alexander J. P. Houben at Utrecht University in Utrecht, Netherlands, and colleagues was titled, "Reorganization of Southern Ocean Plankton Ecosystem at the Onset of Antarctic Glaciation."

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[Image courtesy of Annick Fehr, Kevin Welsh and Trevor Williams]

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