From our friends at PolarTREC:
Overview
How do we know what kind of phytoplankton are in the water? The Imaging FlowCytobot (IFCB) is a robot that scientists use to image phytoplankton in the water. One IFCB can take up to 30,000 pictures per hour! The IFCB can be used in the field to detect plankton blooms in real time. In this activity, students will practice identifying phytoplankton in IFCB datasets and will compare summer and fall communities from several locations in the Alaskan Arctic.
Check out the expedition page at:
https://www.polartrec.com/expeditions/harmful-algal-blooms-in-arctic-waters
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Audience
Middle School and Up
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