Month: October 2009

New Zealand Phytoplankton & Earth Observer Lists

Peter is right about the good fishing. A similar meeting of warm and cold currents occurs in the Santa Barbara Channel of California in the summer, with a similar upwelling of nutrients, and bloom of phytoplankton, with consequent large populations…

New Zealand phytoplankton bloom

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=40924&src=nha Satellite photo of a spring phytoplankton bloom just east of New Zealand, where there is a convergence of warm and cold currents. If you go to the link you can see a much more detailed image over a larger…

Manly

A group of Manly. You may notice a bud still to open. Also note the summer mulch is well into its growing season. Strange. Dave

Manly

I put two photos on the same mail and they were too big for daffnet. Here is a photo of Manly taken yesterday, 27th October. Dave