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Posts by Ken Kostel

Oceans capture more carbon than expected

By Ken Kostel | April 7, 2020
Scientists deploy sediment trap

Scientists have long known that the ocean plays an essential role in capturing carbon from the atmosphere, but a new…

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The oceans’ twilight zone must be studied now, before it is too late

By Ken Kostel | March 31, 2020
Elongated bristlemouth (Sigmops-elongatus)

Nature

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The Largest Mass Migration on The Planet Happens Every Single Day, And We Never See It

By Ken Kostel | March 24, 2020

At night, they rise. As the Sun disappears over the horizon, a vast movement takes place in the world’s oceans,…

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Enter the Twilight Zone: Scientists dive into the oceans’ mysterious middle

By Ken Kostel | February 28, 2020

Nature

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Open ocean diving observations

By Ken Kostel | February 27, 2020

Watch and learn how Ocean Twilight Zone fish biologist conducts blue- and black-water dives in the open ocean and what…

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The Ocean Twilight Zone’s crucial carbon pump

By Ken Kostel | January 24, 2020

Oceanus Magazine

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Tagging sharks to study the twilight zone

By Ken Kostel | January 23, 2020
shark fin on the surface with fish tag

Former MIT-WHOI Joint Program graduate student and current University of Washington post-doc Camrin Braun and his team on the charter…

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Report shows human benefits from ocean twilight zone

By Ken Kostel | January 22, 2020
Value beyond view cover

Did you know that there’s a natural carbon sink—even bigger than the Amazon rainforest—that helps regulate Earth’s climate by sucking…

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Paul Caiger hunts for things that glow in the Ocean Twilight Zone

By Ken Kostel | January 22, 2020

WHOI News and Insights

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Satellite Observes Massive Ocean Migration

By Ken Kostel | December 9, 2019

  Every night, under the cover of darkness, countless small sea creatures swim from the ocean depths to feed near…

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