Reveals how hurricanes affect life below the surface

In early October 2016, a tropical storm named Nicole formed in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. It roamed for six days, intensifying to a powerful hurricane with 140 mph winds, before hitting the island of Bermuda as a Category 3 storm. Hurricanes like Nicole can cause significant damage to human structures on land, and often permanently alter terrestrial landscapes. But these powerful storms also affect the ocean, and while we have some idea of their surface effects, we didn't know much about how hurricanes impact the deep ocean. A new study by researchers at the UChicago-affiliated Marine Biological Laboratory and the Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences has provided novel insight on those impacts. Nicole had a significant effect on the ocean's carbon cycle and deep-sea ecosystems, the team reports. Studying the deep ocean.