A Scientist’s Life in 99 Seconds: Marine Ecologist Andrew Barton

Andrew Barton, a marine ecologist at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego, shares his vision to create a new ecological understanding of marine plankton. “I’m a marine ecologist. I study marine plankton, which includes phytoplankton, photosynthetic marine microbes living in the surface ocean, up to organisms as large as krill, which are crustaceans that some whales famously feed on.“ #MarineEcology #Ocean #Scientist Read the full news story here: Subscribe to Scripps Oceanography here:   Subscribe to Scripps’ explorations now newsletter here: Check out Scripps Oceanography for more: Follow Scripps Oceanography on social here: Facebook: Twitter: Instagram: Model animation: Oliver Jahn, Chris Hill, Stephanie Dutkiewicz, and Mick Follows (MIT) and the ECCO