Understanding how global warming might change the efficiency of this "ocean ooze" as a carbon sink. Option 2: Microbial Ecology and "Hitchhikers"
Microbial Hotspots in the Deep: Comparing Prokaryotic Colonization on Marine Snow Aggregates What is marine snow? - NOAA's National Ocean Service
The Efficiency of the Biological Carbon Pump: Analyzing Vertical Flux in MarineSnow_05 and _07 Datasets
Sinking velocities (typically 1 to 368 m/day), particle size, and porosity.
Based on the research significance of marine snow, here are several paper titles and structures you could develop using this data.
The "MarineSnow_05_and_07_compressed.zip" file likely contains data related to , which is the continuous shower of organic debris (such as dead plankton, fecal pellets, and silt) falling from the upper ocean to the deep sea . This material is a critical energy source for deep-sea ecosystems and a key driver of the ocean's biological carbon pump , which sequesters atmospheric CO2 into the seafloor.
Quantifying how much carbon is successfully transported to the seafloor versus how much is consumed or remineralized by microbes and zooplankton in the water column.
