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VPR suspended from a crane during the load onto Alucia.

VPR suspended from a crane during the load onto Alucia.
VPR suspended from a crane during the load onto Alucia.
VPR suspended from a crane during the load onto Alucia.
VPR suspended from a crane during the load onto Alucia.
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Alatalo, Phil
VPR suspended from a crane during the load onto Alucia.
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02/08/2015
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Image Of the Day caption:
WHOI biologist Cabell Davis spearheaded the development of this instrument, called a Video Plankton Recorder, to capture images of the ocean's multitudes of tiny, unseen life forms: plankton. From the Greek for "drifter," plankton is a catchall term that includes bacteria and other microbes, single-celled plants, tiny animals, and larvae of larger species. Most marine animals are also plankton for part or all of their lives and form the base of the ocean's food web. This photo was taken aboard the M/V Alucia on a 4,350-mile research cruise from Honolulu, Hawaii, to Balboa, Panamathe longest continuous VPR transit to date.
Caption from Oceanus magazine, Vol. 52, No. 1, pg. 20:
The ocean's inner space can resemble outer space with multitudes of tiny plankton drifting in the dark depths of the ocean. An instrument called the Video Plankton Recorder (right) offers a way to peer into this vast microscopic world.
Photo by Phil Alatalo
© Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
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