Ocean Ecology

PACE will carry NASA's most advanced color sensor ever, designed to help identify these different phytoplankton communities from space! By monitoring global phytoplankton distribution and abundance with unprecedented detail, PACE will help us to better understand the complex systems that drive ocean ecology and the health - and future - of our ocean and life on earth.
Learn more in the resources listed below about how PACE will use ocean color to learn more about ocean ecology.
FAQs
Aimee Neeley, Oceanographer, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Beyond Blue: Why Ocean Color Really Matters (15-May-19).
Satellite data show us greater coverage geographically of the ocean surface. When we're on a ship, we're only hitting this (tiny) part of the ocean, but the satellite is covering the entire ocean. So ultimately, we get a lot more information from satellites, versus just data from one portion of the ocean when we're sampling on a ship.
Dr. Ivona Cetinić, Ocean Ecologist and Aimee Neeley, Oceanographer, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Beyond Blue: Why Ocean Color Really Matters (15-May-19).
Aimee Neeley, Oceanographer, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Beyond Blue: Why Ocean Color Really Matters (15-May-19).
Aimee Neeley, Oceanographer, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Beyond Blue: Why Ocean Color Really Matters (15-May-19).
There are places where you can buy starter cultures and grow them yourself. I did see an advertisement for bioluminescent phytoplankton (organisms that produce their own light). Otherwise, when scientists collect phytoplankton to make into a monoculture, they have to go out to sea and individually isolate different cells and then start growing them.
Aimee Neeley, Oceanographer, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Beyond Blue: Why Ocean Color Really Matters (15-May-19).
Dr. Jeremy Werdell, PACE Project Scientist, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Beyond Blue: Why Ocean Color Really Matters (30-Apr-19).

Dr. Ivona Cetinić, Ocean Ecologist, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Beyond Blue: Why Ocean Color Really Matters (15-May-19).

Dr. Jeremy Werdell, PACE Project Scientist, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Beyond Blue: Why Ocean Color Really Matters (30-Apr-19).