When a large volcano erupts, as Mount Spurr appears close to doing about 80 miles from Anchorage, Alaska, it can ...

Kilauea ash (top) was deposited where the bloom occurred. Credit: W. Cheah.

The 2018 eruption of Kilauea on Hawaii island sparked the largest open-ocean phytoplankton bloom ever recorded in the North ...

The nutrient-rich deep water rising to the sunlit surface stimulated phytoplankton growth, resulting in an extensive plume of ...

The nutrient-rich deep water rising to the sunlit surface stimulated phytoplankton growth, resulting in an extensive plume of microbes offshore of Hawai'i Island. Volcanic ash can be transported ...

The nutrient-rich deep water rising to the sunlit surface stimulated phytoplankton growth, resulting in an extensive plume of microbes offshore of Hawai'i Island. Volcanic ash can be transported ...