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Colonial p. antarctica  
   

Colonial p. antarctica

A view through microscope of the colonial stage of the organism. Photo by Amy Shields. Borrowed from webpage at http://www.vims.edu/phae/
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

 Flag 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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