Background
Background
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Image of various zooplankton, courtesy of MarineBio Conservation Society.
What are plankton?
What are plankton?
•Plankton are microscopic and form the basis of marine food web1-3
•Phytoplankton are one of the most important oxygen producers and zooplankton are heterotrophs who eat phytoplankton.
How do we observe them?
How do we observe them?
•Traditional methods for plankton sample collecting are disruptive and cause damage to the fragile structures of the plankton.
•Scripps Plankton Camera System, takes high resolution images of plankton, but its image angle views are limited.4-5
•Pichaya Lertvilai designed the In-situ Plankton Assemblage eXplorer (IPAX), an open-source low-cost imaging system for plankton observations.
•The IPAX is an accessible and low-cost imaging system that requires minimal engineering expertise.
Image of IPAX, courtesy of Pichaya Lertvilai of Scripps Institution of Oceanography.
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