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Rob Olson and Heidi Sosik with their Imaging FlowCytobot.

Rob Olson and Heidi Sosik with their Imaging FlowCytobot.
Rob Olson and Heidi Sosik with their Imaging FlowCytobot.
Rob Olson and Heidi Sosik with their Imaging FlowCytobot.
Rob Olson and Heidi Sosik with their Imaging FlowCytobot.
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Kleindinst, Thomas N.
Rob Olson and Heidi Sosik with their Imaging FlowCytobot.
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05/15/2012
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WHOI biologists Robert Olson and Heidi Sosik created the Imaging FlowCytobot, which photographs, identifies, and counts plankton cells in the ocean 24 hours a day for months at a time and relays information back to shore via fiber-optic cable or satellite. Recently, scientists using the Imaging FlowCytobot in the Arctic Ocean discovered a huge phytoplankton bloom under meter-thick ice, where they previously thought phytoplankton (which requires sunlight) could not grow. In 2012, the Imaging FlowCytobot was licensed to Falmouth, Mass.-based McLane Research Laboratories, which will manufacture and sell the instrument.
Photo by Tom Kleindinst
© Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
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