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It’s the Little Things in Life (like Plankton)
October 9, 2017
The deck crew and survey tech bring the bongo nets back on board NOAA Ship Oscar Dyson.
Photo: Jenny Smallwood
When the crew and science team aren’t working jellyfish laden Stauffer trawls, they’re busy with the bongo nets. These are my favorite because they pull up lots of plankton. Most people would totally freak out if they knew how much stuff was swimming around in the water with them, including pteropods, which look a bit like slugs with wings. Pteropods are a type of zooplankton also know as sea butterflies for the small “wings” attached to their bodies.Read the blog post
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It’s the Little Things in Life (like Plankton)October 9, 2017
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Hard to tell from here, but some of the plankton in this jar are really tiny larval fish– “ichthyoplankton.”February 1, 2016
This is a close-up of the “cod end” of the bongo, where the plankton get funneled into.November 9, 2015
At the NOAA lab in Pascagoula, scientist Jessica Kirkham sorts through and identifies icthyoplankton (fish) and invertebrates.October 5, 2015
The Mola (or Ocean Sunfish) lies on one side just under the water’s surface and eats jellyfish.August 17, 2015
This jar of copepods was collected using a bongo net and will be sent off for genetic analysis!May 25, 2015
Salps are a colony of tunicates and are actually more closely related to humans than shrimp are!April 27, 2015