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Blooms off Both North American Coasts

Phytoplankton explosions off the east and west coasts of the United States have both benign and harmful impacts.

This image originally appeared in the NASA Earth Observatory story Blooms off Both North American Coasts.

NASA Earth Observatory images by Joshua Stevens, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. Caption by Mike Carlowicz. Thanks to Don Anderson (WHOI), Oscar Schofield (Rutgers), Karen Chytalo (NY DEC), and Chris Gobler (Stony Brook University) for image interpretation.

Published August 9, 2015
Data acquired August 3, 2015

Source:: Landsat 8 > OLI