| The Zooplankton Gallery houses a collection of
photographs of tropical marine zooplankton. Plankton represent a
very important and tremendously diverse and abundant group of organisms
that range from tiny microscopic virri and bacteria to fish larvae to,
sometimes giant, medusae.
All animals shown on these pages were collected by Dr. Robert K. Cowen and his
associates, for whom I worked as an undergraduate laboratory assistant at
Marine Sciences Research Center at Stony Brook University. These creatures
came from the 1996 - 1997 cruises to the coastal waters of
Barbados. I later photographed them with a Nikon camera mounted on a
compound microscope.
Teresa Rotunno has been instrumental in helping me
set-up the "zoops studio". Most photographs have captions, many of which
are
cited from a number of emails I received regarding these photographs. |
