The Ocean is Earth’s Oxygen Bank

Oxygen is like money for Earth, and the ocean acts like a bank. Deposits are made in three ocean layers:
1. At the surface through exchange with air
2. In the water, when phytoplankton produce O2 from sunlight and CO2
3. On the seafloor, where plants and corals live
Withdrawals occur when organisms consume oxygen. Oxygen is tightly connected to life in the ocean, and can tell us a lot about an ecosystem’s health and productivity. WHOI scientists are exploring means to create an ocean oxygen budget, which has been difficult until now.
Animation based on the following publications:
Closing the oxygen mass balance in shallow coastal ecosystems (Long et al. 2019) aslopubs.onlin...
Ebullition of oxygen from seagrass under supersaturated conditions (Long et al. 2019)
aslopubs.onlin...
Funding by:
NSF (National Science Foundation) nsf.gov
Machine Lab (Marine chemistry, instrumentation & engineering)
Matthew Long www2.whoi.edu/...
Sound effects
“Apple Wiping”-RoofDog (freesound.org)
“Project On Hold”-AaronGNP (freesound.org)
“water_splash”-sondscalpel.com (freesound.org)
“Heatbeat Normal Faster Normal”-Benboncan (freesond.org)
“Cash Register”-kiddpark (freesound.org)
“Ticker Tape Machine FF651”-martinimeniscs (freesound.org)
“Blip Wave”-Breviceps (freesound.org)
Music
“Springish”
Gillicuddy (FMA)
“The last ones”
Jahzzar (FMA)
“Something Elated”
Broke For Free (FMA)
Story editors
Hannah Piecuch
Ken Kostel
Creative Director
Katherine Joyce
Creative direction, illustration & animation
Natalie Renier
© Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

[@junxia3335]

Really like the style of the description for the "marine oxygen bank". Made it easy to understand.