🌊Scientists from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography made a splash Friday, turning part of a North County lagoon and the adjoining ocean surf pink in an effort to better understand how freshwater interacts with the surf zone.
"The bright pink fluorescent dye occupies a very different range of wavelengths on the visible light spectrum than the background ocean water, making it straightforward to detect both with our eyes, with underwater sensors, and from above with optical cameras," Scripps said in a news release sent out Thursday.Sign up for NBC San Diego newsletters.
While people could still detect the dye in the water for several hours after its release, scientists can detect it for a full 24 hours. Scripps hopes to"better understand the fate of freshwater and land-derived materials from small plumes as they enter the coastal ocean and the surf zone. The improved understanding of this mixing in the coastal ocean is crucial to quantifying the spreading of sediment, pollutants, larvae, harmful algal blooms and other important material near the coast where many people live and recreate.
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