Friday June 8 is World Ocean Day! World Ocean Day is global day of ocean awareness and collaboration. In honor of this celebration, McLane has created a plankton coloring mosaic of images collected in local Cape Cod waters by our Imaging FlowCytobot.
- Download your coloring page here and see if you can recognize the plankton included on this page Cylindrotheca, Licmophora, Ephemera, Eucampia, Guinardia striata, Pennate, Odontella, Pyramimonas longicauda, Pseudochattonella farcimen, Amphidinium, Dinophysis
- Use this this Wiki of plankton in northeast waters if you get stuck!
- See a live image stream of plankton off the coast of Martha’s Vineyard (MVCO).
- Watch a video to learn more about the instrument that collected these images.
For more fun and informative activities for World Ocean Day, see these links:
- Learn more about World Ocean Day.
- Get facts about plastics in the ocean and our coastlines.
- Check out a Twilight Zone coloring page from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.
- Not into Plankton? Here is another coloring page with Sediment Traps, MMP, and flotation
Coloring credit: Niamh Cullinane, age 6
