Plankton patchiness

PLANKTON PATCHINESS

“[Encountered coloured water] extending about two miles from North to South and about six to eight hundred fathoms from West to East. The colour of the water was yellow.” May 1735

• “[Encountered coloured water] extending about two miles from North to South and about six to eight hundred fathoms from West to East. The colour of the water was yellow.” May 1735

• Data from

• Dundee Satellite

• Receiving Station

• Processed by

• Steve Groom,

• RSDAS, PML

Captain James Cook 1728-1779

• “…on the 9th December 1768 we observed the sea to be covered with broad streaks of a yellowish colour, several of them a mile long, and three or four hundred yards wide.”