In celebration of the 2019 theme “Greening the Blue” McLane has created this year’s coloring page for World Oceans Day 2019 featuring a parade of phytoplankton sampled by the IFCB (not to scale). Phytoplankton are the original “green” of our blue oceans. Enjoy, as you take some time to pause, learn, change your perspective, and think about how our daily actions can make a difference.
- Download the 2019 McLane coloring page and see if you can recognize the phytoplankton included on this page: Ceratium, Akashiwo, Cochlodinium, Coscinodiscus, Eucampia Guinardia striata, Thalassionema, Odontella, Pleurosigma and Lauderia
- Use this this Wiki of plankton in northeast waters if you get stuck.
- Make phytoplankton ubiquitous on social media as they are in the ocean: Tag your masterpiece #IFCBGreen.
- Watch a video to learn more about the instrument that collected these images the Imaging FlowCytobot (IFCB), a smart underwater microscope.
- Find more activities and learn more on the World Oceans Day youth pages.
- Need another plankton coloring page fix? Access last year’s page here.
