ALES at Stony Brook: 17 November WHO’S THAT ZOOPLANKTER?

Thursday, November 17, 2011

17 November WHO’S THAT ZOOPLANKTER?

In an effort to increase audience participation with our blogs, today’s posting is a game! We’ve told you a bit about two types of zooplankton that we are interested in studying out here: krill and salps. What you may not have realized is that our nets pull up a lot more animals than just the ones we want! In between stations, we’ve been trying to photograph some of these various specimens from our net tows.

Today’s game: Correctly identify each of the animals in the photos (to the lowest taxa possible.) The person with the most correct answers will win a souvenir from Antarctica!

So, brush off those ID books sitting on your shelves and get Google Images up and running…you’ve got some zooplankton to ID! Good luck!

P.S. Remember that all photos were all taken within the last week, so keep in mind that these are all ANTARCTIC species.

You can submit your answers via email to ales.lab.sbu@gmail.com (just put Zooplankton ID in the subject line) or you can post them in the comments section below.

Please submit your guesses by noon (east coast time) on monday, Nov 21st. We'll announce the winner(s) before thanksgiving!