Earth  ID: 10498

Keeping Up With Carbon

Released on October 12, 2009
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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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Ivy Flores (IRC/UMBC): Animator
Megan Willy (IRC/UMBC): Animator
Maria Frostic (UMBC): Video Editor
Stacey Bolland (NASA/JPL CalTech): Interviewee
Troy Cline (Raytheon/GSFC): Narrator
Maria Frostic (UMBC): Producer
Gene Feldman (NASA/GSFC): Scientist
Scott Doney (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute): Scientist
Stacey Bolland (NASA/JPL CalTech): Scientist
Megan Willy (IRC/UMBC): Videographer
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Goddard TV Tape:
G2009-095 -- Tides of Change: Earth's Changing Sink

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DLESE >> Biology
SVS >> Carbon
SVS >> Carbon Cycle
SVS >> Carbon Ocean Cycle
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SVS >> Phytoplankton
SVS >> Plankton
GCMD >> Earth Science >> Oceans
GCMD >> Earth Science >> Biosphere >> Ecological Dynamics >> Food-web Dynamics
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SVS >> Voice Over Talent
NASA Science >> Earth

GCMD keywords can be found on the Internet with the following citation: Olsen, L.M., G. Major, K. Shein, J. Scialdone, S. Ritz, T. Stevens, M. Morahan, A. Aleman, R. Vogel, S. Leicester, H. Weir, M. Meaux, S. Grebas, C.Solomon, M. Holland, T. Northcutt, R. A. Restrepo, R. Bilodeau, 2013. NASA/Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Earth Science Keywords. Version 8.0.0.0.0