Rotator

These organism live in the sea where currents and tides move them around. When they are in sample bottles, they tend to clump at the bottom. So they have this rotator device that slowly moves the bottles around so that the organism stays distributed throughout the sample. It works a lot like a ferris wheel except that the bottles are upside down part of the time.

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

Antarctica » Antarctica » McMurdo Station

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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