Sweating the Small Stuff: Linking Plankton to Climate Change, Brian Kim '18 Makes Conncetions

Stephen Collins

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Sweating the Small Stuff: Linking Plankton to Climate Change, Brian Kim '18 Makes Conncetions

Digital Commons - Colby (Colby College) 2016

Stephen Collins

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A student researcher investigated whether marine copepods (plankton) inadvertently consume microplastics, exploring the implications for the ocean carbon pump — since copepod fecal pellets are a key mechanism for transporting carbon to the deep sea, microplastic ingestion could disrupt this climate-regulating process.

It takes an expansive mind to connect microscopic marine copepods (certain crustacean plankton) unwittingly chomping on floating microplastics with a bigger picture: the planet’s carbon pump and global climate change. But that’s what Brian Kim ’18 decided to investigate during Jan Plan, working with Bigelow Lab Senior Research Scientist David Fields.

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