ESSIC / AOSC Professor Raghu Murtugudde was quoted in a ScienceNews article on the disappearance of phytoplankton from the Indian Ocean. The piece, which referenced Murtugudde’s recently co-authored study published in Geophysical Research Letters, details the ecological threat posed by rapid loss of phytoplankton.
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