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For two decades, scientists have puzzled over how vast blooms of microscopic plants can form in the middle of otherwise
barren mid-ocean regions. Now a research team led by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) has shown
that episodic, swirling current systems known as eddies act to pump nutrients up from the deep ocean to fuel such
phytoplankton blooms. [Source: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute]
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