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Sinking Seaweed
Warren Cornwall, Science Fisheries & Aquaculture
Off the coast of Santa Barbara, California—The waters of California’s Santa Barbara Channel seem like a place where seaweed would flourish. Sleek gangs of bottlenose dolphins flash through the waves. A minke whale surfaces briefly. Phytoplankton tints the ocean jade green. The sea is burgeoning with life.
And yet, when Kristen Davis, a physical oceanographer at Stanford University, rises from the depths after inspecting an experimental farm of giant kelp (Macrocystis pyrifera), the news is discouraging. “They’re trying to grow,” Davis says as she bobs in the water, her tone suggesting the kelp isn’t exactly thriving.
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