Can bioluminescent ‘milky seas’ be predicted?

BURLINGTON, Vt. — For the first time, a researcher has found a “milky sea” without relying on happenstance.

For centuries, sailors have been amazed and mystified by a rare phenomenon: the water around their ship glowing as far as the eye can see. Scientists have struggled to study such milky seas because they had no way of knowing when and where one would occur.

But now, using weather and ocean temperature data, atmospheric scientist Justin Hudson of Colorado State University in Fort Collins has successfully predicted — or rather, postdicted — an occurrence of the phenomenon.

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