This is what I’m lecturing about in my class this week. We’re talking productivity in the photic zone (upper ~100 m where photosynthesis can occur), and how that region supports most of the food chain at the surface. Then there’s a grey area where nothing really happens then you get to the bottom of the ocean where life flourishes again thanks to black smokers! We’re doing the light bottle/dark bottle experiment this week in my lab.
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This is what I’m lecturing about in my class this week. We’re talking productivity in the photic zone (upper ~100 m where photosynthesis can occur), and how that region supports most of the food chain at the surface. Then there’s a grey area where nothing really happens then you get to the bottom of the ocean where life flourishes again thanks to black smokers! We’re doing the light bottle/dark bottle experiment this week in my lab.