{"id":215594,"date":"2025-06-07T17:08:11","date_gmt":"2025-06-07T22:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/hurricanes-stir-deep-ocean-layers-bringing-nutrients-and-low-oxygen-zones-to-surface-study-finds"},"modified":"2025-06-07T17:08:11","modified_gmt":"2025-06-07T22:08:11","slug":"hurricanes-stir-deep-ocean-layers-bringing-nutrients-and-low-oxygen-zones-to-surface-study-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/hurricanes-stir-deep-ocean-layers-bringing-nutrients-and-low-oxygen-zones-to-surface-study-finds","title":{"rendered":"Hurricanes stir deep ocean layers, bringing nutrients and low-oxygen zones to surface, study finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/hurricanes-stir-deep-ocean-layers-bringing-nutrients-and-low-oxygen-zones-to-surface-study-finds.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>With careful planning and a little luck, researchers found a surprising upside to hurricanes after a Category 4 storm disrupted their expedition off the coast of Mexico.<\/p>\n<p>The team was able to sample the ocean right after the storm passed and found that the storms churn the ocean so powerfully and deeply\u2014up to thousands of meters\u2014that nutrient-rich, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/cold+water\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">cold water<\/a> is brought to the surface.<\/p>\n<p>The resulting phytoplankton blooms\u2014visible in <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/satellite+imagery\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">satellite imagery<\/a> taken from space\u2014are a feast for bacteria, zooplankton, small fish, and filter-feeding animals such as shellfish and baleen whales.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With careful planning and a little luck, researchers found a surprising upside to hurricanes after a Category 4 storm disrupted their expedition off the coast of Mexico. The team was able to sample the ocean right after the storm passed and found that the storms churn the ocean so powerfully and deeply\u2014up to thousands of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493,2028,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-215594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology","category-satellites","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215594\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}