Very excited to join the cadre of folks monitoring and imaging plankton with a #planktoscope . We’ll be sampling in the Chesapeake Bay to support an effort to predict algal blooms. #masternaturalist .

The cakes were provided by Algenuity Ltd; chocolates by Sinead, Simin and Shavran from Edinburgh University; Lucia Giron & Namata Bhatnagar, part of the Biodesign Collective, brought their near-future microalgal architectural and personal care systems; Thibaut Pollina brought his #Planktoscope.

CCAP was visited today by Thibaut Pollina, the inventor of the #PlanktoScope, a modular, open-source platform for #plankton imaging. It allows high-throughput quantitative #imaging of samples in the lab or in the field. Fascinating to have a look at it and see what it can do!
www.planktoscope.org

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here I will post some news about the project #lacoscope which uses low cost imaging tools to capture plankton of alpin lakes #planktoscope #ecotaxa @cnrs.bsky.social @grenoblealpes.bsky.social

Rectangular transparent perspex shape glued onto driver mounts of 2 stepper motors with wires attached to motor ends on a anti-static solder mat. Will be used later as a sample stage within a DIY microscope setup to adjust the focus of images.

Pieces of laser cut transparent and white perspex shapes on an anti-static solder mat. The larger piece have a PCB electronics board fitted onto it that will be used later to control stepper motors in a DIY microscope.

Long time coming, but finally making steady progress on my side project to build a DIY #PlanktoScope.

Fun find in the #PlanktoScope last week! Amid lots and lots and lots of Skeletonema sp. we also saw quite a few oyster larvae. This week, Skeletonema only (but even more of it!). Time-series collection is (almost) always fun and interesting :)