The discovery of two new and unusual species of diatoms (phytoplankton) in Hawaiian waters was announced by a team of University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa researchers in the Department of Oceanography’s Center for Microbial Oceanography: Research and Education (C-MORE), along with collaborators at the University of California Santa Cruz, and California State University San Marcos. The organisms were also found to fix nitrogen, a critical process that converts gaseous nitrogen into a form that supports productivity in the nutrient-poor open ocean they inhabit. The findings were published in Nature Communications.
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