My son is 4 years old now, and one of his favorite activities ... At night, zooplankton like copepods rise vertically through the water column to feed on phytoplankton near the ocean's surface ...

This effectively reduces or even reverses ocean acidification. But when low tide occurs at night, there is no sunlight to support photosynthetic activities, and therein lies the problem ...

In spite of that, computer models of the global ocean biogeochemistry typically don't include the day/night (diel) light cycle, even though that cycle is critical for photosynthesis in the ocean's ...