#MediaMonday The first community-driven #IFCB webinar brought researchers and operators together to share best practices across the NSF OOI.
Tom Fougere (McLane) highlighted deployment best practices, while Dr. Sophie Clayton (NOC) shared operational guidance from the field.
tinyurl.com/4dupr62t
Check out the 4-part webinar series by @ooifacilityboard.bsky.social on the Imaging FlowCytobot starting March 20 #IFCB ooifb.org/meetings/202... 🌊
French #IFCB user Valentine won our #12YearsofFocus giveaway and sent us this sunny photo! McLane is buried in snow and we are very jealous. tinyurl.com/4b632hry
ONE MONTH TO GO until we are in Glasgow for #OSM2026-- see you there. Not only that, our booth and #IFCB from OSM24 is on the front page of the OSM website.
#MediaMonday Dr. Heidi Sosik, one of the inventors of the #IFCB, discusses the importance of Northeast U.S. Shelf Long-Term Ecological Research program (NES-LTER). in OCEANUS magazine. The IFCB is a key instrument in the LTER program. www.whoi.edu/oceanus/feat...
To celebrate 12 years of the McLane #IFCB, between Nov 12 and Dec 12, we’re giving away IFCB #LabSwag — which may include a commemorative T-shirt, stickers, mini LEGO®Brick IFCB model, and other McLane goodies.
To Enter: lp.constantcontactpages.com/su/ietb4sm
#MediaMonday Check out this amazing photo of Dr.Dr. Kasia Kenitz and the #IFCB in Del Mar, CA and the SCCOOS summer HAB bulletin. sccoos.org/california-h...
Happy Halloween! Here is one of users dressed up as their sampling barge “Cosmic” with a profiling #IFCB! @Whoi
Now in Nature: #MediaMonday
“Annotated IFCB plankton images from the Mediterranean Sea”
by M.S. Mente, E. Houliez, E. Scalco, L. Roselli & D. Sarno
The new MedPlanktonSet dataset features 77k #IFCB images collected across the Gulf of Naples — expanding Mediterranean plankton coverage.
Imaging Flow CytoBot, IFCB, snapshot identifying the Alexandrium that were observed during an oceanographic research cruise in the Pacific Arctic aboard the University of Alaska Fairbanks research vessel Sikuliaq.
#SKQ202515s had an Imaging Flow CytoBot #IFCB aboard the RV #Sikuilaq. This instrument images phytoplankton in seawater, including those related to harmful algal blooms #HABs. 🧪🌊🦑🐻❄️
Stay up to date with the #Alaska Harmful Algal Bloom Network.
ahab.aoos.org
📸 K. Horn @whoi.edu
Submit your ideas for naming our two Imaging FlowCytobots (IFCBs) before they start their work detecting harmful algal blooms in Alaska this summer! 🌊🔬
👉 aoos.org/help-name-ou...
#HABs #AlaskaOcean #IFCB #ScienceInAction
