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SeaWiFS Images : North America
All images courtesy of the SeaWiFS Project, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, unless otherwise noted.
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Coccolithophorid blooms in the Bering Sea
Saturday, April 25, 1998
Image collected at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks
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"Whiting event" in Lake Michigan, 1999. The colour change is due to either
high concentrations of calcium carbonate, which lead to the formation of
white "clouds" underwater; or, a Microcystis bloom.
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This SeaWiFS image of Maritime Canada and New England taken on July 20, 2001, depicts a pretty summer day for most of the region. In the Gulf of St. Lawrence, phytoplankton blooms are brightening the water considerably.
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