Abstract
The modern era of biological oceanography arguably began in 1978 with the successful launch of the Coastal Zone Color Scanner on the Nimbus 7 satellite. Although limited by today's standards, the Coastal Zone Color Scanner provided the first glimpse of the complex, beautiful, and difficult-to-sample interactions between single-celled phytoplankton and the turbulent mixing of the surface ocean. In the intervening decades, oceanographers have made tremendous advances, with more and better ocean color sensors such as the Sea-viewing Wide Field-of-view Sensor, Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer, and Medium Resolution Imaging Spectrometer. The PNAS report by d'Ovidio et al. (1) shows us how much further we need to go and provides a glimpse into the true complexity of the surface ocean and the mechanisms driving this ecological landscape.
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