This is an online lab notebook to document my research at the Institute of Marine at Coastal Sciences at Rutgers University. And by popular demand, a running log.
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- Name: alex
- Location: Rutgers University, New Jersey, United States
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Wednesday, August 10, 2005
Marine Snow Image
Below is an image of marine snow. The imaged marine snow was made using a compound microscope and my canon SD300 digital elph camera. The sno itself was made using a "flocculator". The flocculator is essentially a small jar spinning inside of a larger jar with the space between the two jars filled with seawater and phytoplankton (Skeletonema in this case). Anyways, the horizontal scale of the image is about 1cm across. As one can estimate, some of the imaged phytoplankton aggregates are on the order of tens to hundreds of millimeters.
Hopefully, I will be posting a bit more regularly again, after my brief internet hiatus.
- posted by alex @ 11:34
