Hidden comet tails of marine snow impede ocean-based carbon sequestration

R Chajwa, E Flaum, KD Bidle, B Van Mooy, M Prakash - Science, 2024 - science.org
Gravity-driven sinking of “marine snow” sequesters carbon in the ocean, constituting a key
biological pump that regulates Earth's climate. A mechanistic understanding of this …

Settling of microplastics in mucus-rich water column: The role of biologically modified rheology of seawater

MM Mrokowska, A Krztoń-Maziopa - Science of The Total Environment, 2024 - Elsevier
Non-buoyant microplastics (MPs) sink through the marine water column, adversely affecting
the ecosystem. The manner in which MPs influence the water environment depends to a …

Active Carpets in floating viscous films

FA Barros, HN Ulloa, G Aguayo… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Earth's aquatic environments are inherently stratified layered systems where interfaces
between layers serve as ecological niches for microbial swimmers, forming colonies known …

Layered aquatic microenvironments control fluctuations generated by active carpets

FA Barros, HN Ulloa, G Aguayo, AJTM Mathijssen… - Physical Review …, 2025 - APS
In Earth's aquatic environments and the human body, microbial swimmers often accumulate
at interfaces within layered systems, forming colonies known as active carpets. These …

[HTML][HTML] Dataset on rheological measurements of xanthan gum aqueous dispersions containing sodium chloride and settling dynamics of spheres and disks in these …

MM Mrokowska, A Krztoń-Maziopa - Data in Brief, 2023 - Elsevier
This paper presents a dataset collected in laboratory experiments on the settling of solid
spheres and disks in shear-thinning and viscoelastic aqueous solutions of xanthan gum with …

[HTML][HTML] Laboratory data on dynamics of microplastic particles sinking in seawater with dispersed xanthan gum and kappa-carrageenan and rheological properties of …

MM Mrokowska, A Krztoń-Maziopa - Data in Brief, 2024 - Elsevier
This paper presents a dataset comprising measurements of the sinking dynamics of
microplastics settling in artificial seawater (AS) and in dispersions of polymers in seawater …