An example post will be drafted here, this week, using PLANKTON as the example, with a few images from the presentation slide deck. This post is not done. It is still under construction as of Nov.9, 2022.
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PLANKTON:
George McManus
Interim Director, Connecticut National Estuarine Research Reserve
University of Connecticut
1080 Shennecossett Rd.
Groton CT USA 06340
Time on the video recording: 1hr33min -to- 2hr25min
Talk summary/abstract:
Long Island Sound plankton has been studied since the 1940s, when Gordon Riley and his group at Yale made some of the first observations of phyto- and zooplankton seasonal cycles and used state-of-the-art mathematical models to describe their interactions and dynamics. Since then, groups at Stony Brook and UConn have developed a more detailed picture of plankton in the Sound, including participation in a >20 year monitoring program funded through the EPA’s National Estuary Program. This talk gives an overview of the kinds of plankton in Long Island Sound. It summarizes the seasonal cycles of the important plankton groups, introduces the links in the plankton food web, and where birds directly and indirectly relate to plankton. It discusses possible changes as the regional climate warms. It discusses changes in plankton, both those occurring now, and potential.
Wilson's Storm-petrel is a regular summer visitor to LIS, and here are several foraging for plankton:
Gulls plankton feeding in LIS in March 2019:
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