by Alice | Oct 10, 2024 | Educator Resource
NCCOS is looking for new volunteers across the U.S. to monitor coastal or freshwater environments for potentially harmful phytoplankton. If you are available and interested in sampling your local waters twice each month, examining it through a microscope, and...
by Alice | Oct 10, 2024 | Educator Resource
Harmful algal blooms (HABs) negatively impact organisms in a variety of ways that can range from cell and tissue damage to organism death. Although toxin production is one of the major mechanisms by which the blooms cause such severe damage, there are several other...
by Natalie Osborne | Apr 9, 2019 | Uncategorized
This film, produced by SEATOR walks students through how toxins that cause Paralytic Shellfish Poisoning get into your food and how the Sitka Tribe of Alaska has created a program to monitor HABs and toxins throughout Southeast Alaska. The film shows how to properly...
by Natalie Osborne | Apr 9, 2019 | Educator Resource
3 minute video that shows the diversity of planktonic life that are protists and introduces key types of protists and their natural history.
by Natalie Osborne | Apr 9, 2019 | Uncategorized
5 minute video that utilizes beautiful microscopy photographs and video clips to explain what diatoms are, their evolutionary history, how they photosynthesize, and their role in marine ecosystems.