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Ocean 180 -- How a microscopic team alters the course of carbon in the Atlantic ocean. The Amazon river is the largest river in the world. It drains the entire Amazon rainforest, sending leftover nutrients, detritus, and minerals from the South American jungle out into the tropical Atlantic ocean. This runoff forms a freshwater plume, hundreds of miles across, that profoundly affects the ocean underneath it. In this study, we focus on the outer edge of the plume, where a unique microbial...