Investigating flagellates, plankton and filter feeders - for iPad/Mac/PC

Investigating flagellates, plankton and filter feeders - for iPad/Mac/PC

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How do we enter the strange and fascinating world of small organisms? How do scientists explore their habits, growth, and rather intriguing behaviours? In this album, scientists from Italy, the US and the UK reveal some of the technologies and techniques they use to investigate the behaviour of smal…

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  • Mar 26, 2010 LATEST EPISODE
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  • 13 EPISODES


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Investigating flagellates, plankton and filter feeders

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 26, 2010 1:00


A short introduction to this album.

Transcript -- Investigating flagellates, plankton and filter feeders

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 26, 2010


Transcript -- A short introduction to this album.

Investigating small aquatic organisms

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 3, 2008 4:39


Professor David Robinson talks about small aquatic organisms, the techniques used to study them and the influences the environment has on them.

Investigating filter feeders

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 3, 2008 7:19


Transcript -- Investigating filter feeders

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 3, 2008


Transcript -- Professor Mimi Köehl demonstrates how somesuspension feeders eat.

Investigating bivalves

Play Episode Listen Later May 20, 2008 7:41


Professor Evan Ward demonstrates how bivalves feed, and how they process the food they ingest.

Transcript -- Investigating bivalves

Play Episode Listen Later May 20, 2008


Transcript -- Professor Evan Ward demonstrates how bivalves feed, and how they process the food they ingest.

Locating phytoplankton

Play Episode Listen Later May 18, 2008 2:18


Dr Gabrielle Kennaway uses a conductivity-temperature-depth (CTD) sampler to test for phytoplankton and its movements with the tide.

Transcript -- Locating phytoplankton

Play Episode Listen Later May 18, 2008


Transcript -- Dr Gabrielle Kennaway uses a conductivity-temperature-depth (CTD) sampler to test for phytoplankton and its movements with the tide.

Investigating flagellates

Play Episode Listen Later May 15, 2008 5:45


Dr Gianfranco Novarino demonstrates how to isolate flagellates from samples and some of their more unusual feeding behaviour.

Transcript -- Investigating flagellates

Play Episode Listen Later May 15, 2008


Transcript -- Dr Gianfranco Novarino demonstrates how to isolate flagellates from samples and some of their more unusual feeding behaviour.

Investigating plankton

Play Episode Listen Later May 15, 2008 6:03


Professor Paul Tett investigates how phytoplankton lives in the sea and gives some examples of how it travels and survives.

Transcript -- Investigating plankton

Play Episode Listen Later May 15, 2008


Transcript -- Professor Paul Tett investigates how phytoplankton lives in the sea and gives some examples of how it travels and survives.

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