Filter Apparatus

This is the filter they use to separate out their organism. Using different size filters allows them to filter out different grazers too - the critters that eat the phytoplankton. They keep these for studies of the relationship between the phytoplankton and the zooplankton. Zooplankton are one celled animals while phytoplankton are one celled plants.

Phytoplankton Research

January 15th 2006
Amy Shields, a graduate student with Dr. Kam Tang of William and Mary College, showed me around her lab and told me about her research with a particular type of phytoplankton called Phaeocystis antarctica. This tiny one-celled plant is at the bottom of the marine Antarctic food chain, but not much is known about this particular species. This organism has a period where it wanders around as a singl ... read more

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Speculation over the existence of a "southern land" was not confirmed until the early 1820s when British and American commercial operators and British and Russian national expeditions began exploring the Antarctic Peninsula region and other areas sou... ... read more

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