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Netting the Small Stuff

March 4, 2019
Copepods (shown in blue) are tiny crustaceans. These copepods images were taken with a high-powered microscope with an internal camera.

Photo: NOAA

Plankton is a name for a variety of plants and animals that live in the water column and are found throughout the world’s oceans. Plankton are important because they are an integral part of the food chain, and they can help scientists better understand currents and transport in the oceans... Due to migration patterns known as diel vertical migration, plankton can be collected more easily at night.
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Don’t Forget the Phytoplankton!May 28, 2019Netting the Small StuffMarch 4, 2019This Tasty-Looking Ctenophore is called a “Sea Gooseberry”February 19, 2018It’s the Little Things in Life (like Plankton)October 9, 2017Just what IS “plankton,” anyway? Does this small swimming crab count?February 27, 2017Just what IS “plankton,” anyway? Does this small swimming crab count?February 27, 2017Hard to tell from here, but some of the plankton in this jar are really tiny larval fish– “ichthyoplankton.”February 1, 2016This is a close-up of the “cod end” of the bongo, where the plankton get funneled into.November 9, 2015At the NOAA lab in Pascagoula, scientist Jessica Kirkham sorts through and identifies icthyoplankton (fish) and invertebrates.October 5, 2015The Mola (or Ocean Sunfish) lies on one side just under the water’s surface and eats jellyfish.August 17, 2015This jar of copepods was collected using a bongo net and will be sent off for genetic analysis!May 25, 2015Salps are a colony of tunicates and are actually more closely related to humans than shrimp are!April 27, 2015
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