This week I did more plankton trails with my home-brewed software. It can be tricky to record the right video, as the bigger zooplankton like to swim into the frame and obliterate all the detail. But I got a few good ones. A small cladoceran generating a large current: Also saw a few things I’ve …
I spent much of the week looking at plankton with the microscope I brought along. From the samples collected around the lab, I was amazed at how similar the zooplankton looked to central Wisconsin. I saw many of the same types of copepods, cladocerans, rotifers etc. I made a sort of plankton kaleidoscope video with …