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A cartoon cereal box is called “Phyt-O’s: the phytoplankton of the future” and shows a happy plankton with a bowl of plankton. Bubbles say “Carbs!” and “Protein?!”

Climate change may produce “fast-food” phytoplankton

March 31, 2026

Categories: Life + Environments, Research, Students + Postdocs

A map of the Pacific Ocean showing cruise tracks overlaying a temperature gradient of the ocean.

Warming oceans may threaten key oxygen-producing microbe

September 9, 2025

Categories: Climate, Faculty + Senior Researchers, Life + Environments, Research

Stephanie Dutkiewicz in front of computer display

Research Insight: the role of marine microbial diversity and dynamics in climate models

September 1, 2025

Categories: Climate, Faculty + Senior Researchers, Life + Environments

Satellite view of the Atlantic Ocean and neighboring continents with colored swirls superimposed over the ocean indicating distribution of Synechococcus phytoplankton.

NASA StoryMap: MIT Darwin Project ecosystem model explores biogeography of microbial environments

July 2, 2025

Categories: In the Media, Life + Environments, Research

A microscopic image of SAR11, a type of pelagibacterales, which look like worms.

New Study Illuminates Invisible Architects of the Ocean’s Carbon Cycle

May 22, 2025

Categories: Life + Environments, Research, Students + Postdocs

The North Sea via satellite. The dark blue water has swirls of teal, and Germany peeks out from the bottom right.

Study: The ocean’s color is changing as a consequence of climate change

July 12, 2023

Categories: Alumni, Climate, Faculty + Senior Researchers, Health of the Planet, Life + Environments, Research

Purple and teal video still details the eddies, mapped using contour lines and color, of the North Pacific Ocean, around a tiny Hawaii, in black.

Small eddies play a big role in feeding ocean microbes

October 03, 2022

Categories: Health of the Planet, Life + Environments, Research

Predator interactions chiefly determine where Prochlorococcus thrive

January 3, 2022

Categories: Faculty + Senior Researchers, Life + Environments, Research

Machine learning helps map global ocean communities

May 29, 2020

Categories: Life + Environments, Research

Seeding oceans with iron may not impact climate change

February 17, 2020

Categories: Health of the Planet, Research

Exploring phytoplankton diversity

February 11, 2020

Categories: Faculty + Senior Researchers, Life + Environments, Research