Ocean Sampling Day: Take a Sample! @oceanexplorergov
Ocean Sampling Day: Take a Sample!  @oceanexplorergov
Uploaded June 2014 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
We asked a few students some questions about marine microbes...check out there responses!

Why are we asking? On June 21, NOAA will join scientists around the world in Ocean Sampling Day, an international collaboration to collect water samples from the ocean and rivers. Within the water samples, scientists are looking for marine microbes -- tiny living things that make up 98 percent of the biomass in the Earth's ocean.

Learn more about microbes, Ocean Sampling Day, and how YOU can get involved: oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/ocean-sampling-day/welcome.html
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