Making the Invisible Visible: Plankton from Microscopes to Satellites

This display will demonstrate the Planktoscope, an imaging microscope to see microbes in the water.

Making the Invisible Visible (Qiñiġniaḷak qiñiġnaqsiḷugu in Iñupiaq)

This display will demonstrate the use of the Planktoscope, an imaging microscope to see microbes present in the water. The Planktoscope is used by the Native Village of Kotzebue in a collaborative project to study phytoplankton in the waters around Kotzebue, Alaska with a special focus on the emerging threat of Harmful Algal Blooms there.