Life aboard the R/V Revelle between the science. Upper left: The zooplankton team staying competitive over Catan. Upper Right: Sunset over the CCE. Lower Left: Sunset saxophone serenade and reflection. Lower right: Decorating the traditional Styrofoam cups, which are sent down on the CTD to return shrunken.
Zooplankton and Associated Sampling. Upper: Bongo Net tow entering the surface of the ocean Lower: Palm full of the pyrosome colonies of Pyrosoma atlanticum above a tray of organisms being imaged and counted. Right: Zooplankton images from the Deep Plankton imager including ctenophores, siphonophore, salp, doliolid, euphausiid, calanoid copepod, and protist.
Illustrations of the CTD, IFCB and various phytoplankton taxa. Lower Right: Recovery of a McLane Pump, which filters for particles and DNA. Right: Scientists preparing the Deep Plankton Imager for a deployment.
Figure 2: Examples of reference zooplankton specimens archived at PIC.
Figure 1: Inside the Pelagic Invertebrate collection, in 1911 (top) and 2024 (bottom).
Examples of reference zooplankton specimens archived at PIC.
Inside the Pelagic Invertebrate collection, in 1911 (top) and 2024 (bottom). Photo credit: Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego
Top left to bottom right: Salp, pyrosome, Velella velella siphonophore, pyrosomes overflowing from net cod ends collected in the CCE during 2021.
Pyrosome Bloom imaged from ROV dive off Southern California in 2021.
Pyrosomes overflowing from net cod ends collected in the CCE during 2021
