Keeping Up With Carbon
Carbon is all around us. This unique atom is the basic building block of life, and its compounds form solids, liquids, or gases. Carbon helps form the bodies of living organisms; it dissolves in the ocean; mixes in the atmosphere; and can be stored in the crust of the planet. A carbon atom could spend millions of years moving through this complex cycle. The ocean plays the most critical role in regulating Earth's carbon balance, and understanding how the carbon cycle is changing is key to understanding Earth's changing climate.
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NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, The SeaWiFS Project and GeoEye. NOTE: All SeaWiFS images and data presented on this web site are for research and educational use only. All commercial use of SeaWiFS data must be coordinated with GeoEye (NOTE: In January 2013, DigitalGlobe and GeoEye combined to become DigitalGlobe).
Animators
- Ivy Flores (IRC/UMBC)
- Megan Willy (IRC/UMBC)
Video editor
- Maria Frostic (UMBC)
Scientists
- Gene Feldman (NASA/GSFC)
- Scott Doney (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute)
- Stacey Bolland (NASA/JPL CalTech)
Interviewee
- Stacey Bolland (NASA/JPL CalTech)
Producer
- Maria Frostic (UMBC)
Narrator
- Troy Cline (Raytheon/GSFC)
Videographer
- Megan Willy (IRC/UMBC)
Series
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Datasets used in this visualization
SeaStar Global Biosphere (Collected with the SeaWiFS sensor)
SeaWiFS Global Biosphere is a combination of the Land NDVI and Chlorophyll Concentration data sets. All SeaWiFS images and data presented on this web site are for research and educational use only. All commercial use of SeaWiFS data must be coordinated with GeoEye.
Credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, The SeaWiFS Project and GeoEye, Scientific Visualization Studio. NOTE: All SeaWiFS images and data presented on this web site are for research and educational use only. All commercial use of SeaWiFS data must be coordinated with GeoEye (NOTE: In January 2013, DigitalGlobe and GeoEye combined to become one DigitalGlobe.).
Dataset can be found at: http://oceancolor.gsfc.nasa.gov/PRODUCTS/
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