Looking at live phytoplankton samples is the best part of doing my PhD, dead plankton is cool, live plankton is blooming (boom boom) amazing! I have a sheet where I note down which species I have seen and relatively how abundant they are, this helps a lot when 2 months down the line I am sweating profusely staring at another round blob under the microscope - WHAT ARE YOU?! So far for this tank I have - 'lots of very fast things'. This is a particularly energetic bunch - there must be something in the water ...
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AuthorI have managed to turn my rather unhealthy obsession with plankton in to my day job. Things don't get much better than this! This blog documents my PhD research and the plankton delights I encounter along the way. Archives
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