{"id":316867,"date":"2017-05-17T10:58:18","date_gmt":"2017-05-17T14:58:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=0dd5f780794a51d8af35db40b044d37a"},"modified":"2017-05-17T10:58:18","modified_gmt":"2017-05-17T14:58:18","slug":"scientists-begin-to-unlock-secrets-of-deep-ocean-color-from-organic-matter-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=316867","title":{"rendered":"Scientists begin to unlock secrets of deep ocean color from organic matter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>About half of atmospheric carbon dioxide is fixed by ocean&#8217;s phytoplankton, mainly picocyanobacteria, through a process called photosynthesis. Picocyanobacteria are tiny, unicellular microorganisms that are abundant and widely distributed in freshwater and marine environments. A large portion of biologically fixed carbon is formed by picocyanobacteria at the sea surface and then transported to the deep ocean. But what remains a mystery is how colored dissolved organic matter which originates from plant detritus (either on land or at sea) makes it into the deep ocean. A team of scientists from the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science (UMCES) and around the world potentially found a viable marine source of this colored material.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About half of atmospheric carbon dioxide is fixed by ocean&#8217;s phytoplankton, mainly picocyanobacteria, through a process called photosynthesis. Picocyanobacteria are tiny, unicellular microorganisms that are abundant and widely distributed in freshwater&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-316867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=316867"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":316868,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316867\/revisions\/316868"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=316867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=316867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=316867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}