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2 People
Linking public policy to disease prevention,
blending feminist theory with engineering
education, saving lives through analytics
10 Planet
Meeting the world's food needs, sanitizing
water with the sun, enhancing education
in a digital age
18 Preservation
Advancing understanding in the Arctic,
minimizing accident-related backups,
identifying old shipwrecks with 21st century
technology
26 Metrics
$354 million in awards, insights from Purdue's
acting president, acting provost and vice
president for research
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Every southern spring and summer, after the sun
has risen into its 24-hour circuit around the skies
of Antarctica, the Ross Sea bursts with life.
Floating microscopic plants known as phytoplankton
soak up the sunlight and the nutrients stirring in
the Southern Ocean and grow into prodigious blooms.
Phytoplankton play a critical role in climate
change research because their biochemical
signatures leave behind clues related
to temperature and past carbon dioxide
levels. See p. 19 for Matt Huber's
research related to phytoplankton
in the Antarctic.