Surviving typhoons
Thursday, January 8, 2015 - 08:30
in Earth & Climate
It is no secret that typhoons are capable of churning the seas and wreaking destruction. But it is tough to examine what exactly happens during a typhoon, particularly in the ocean. The Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University has launched an underwater observatory to monitor what happens in the ocean over long periods of time. Researcher Mary Grossmann, in the Marine Biophysics Unit, used the observatory to determine what happens to plankton during a typhoon. Her study, published online on December 30, 2014 in the Journal of Oceanography, offers a rare glimpse at what happens underwater during a typhoon.