Tonga volcano eruption stimulates life: rapid, massive bloom of ocean phytoplankton

Manoa HI (SPX) Oct 17, 2022

In January 2022, the largest submarine volcanic eruption of this century led to a dramatic phytoplankton bloom north of the island of Tongatapu, in the Kingdom of Tonga. A team of scientists from the University of Hawai'i (UH) at Manoa and Oregon State University revealed in a recently published study that the bloom of microscopic marine life covered an area nearly 40 times the size of the islan