A Plethora of Phytoplankton

During the EXPORTS field campaign, the Imaging Flow Cytobot (IFC) will give scientists a continuous view of plankton diversity in the northeast Pacific. This collage represents just a small number of the plankton that inhabit Earth’s ocean.

Credit: Heidi Sosik (WHOI). Download this image (PNG, 1.2 MB).

[18-Jun-18] During the EXPORTS field campaign, the Imaging Flow Cytobot (IFC) will give scientists a continuous view of plankton diversity in the northeast Pacific. This collage represents just a small number of the plankton that inhabit Earth's ocean. Specialized instruments, adapted from biotechnology and used to count and sort blood cells, captured these images of cells in seawater.

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