Plankton
In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all oceans. - Kahlil Gibran
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Resolute Bay, Beechey Island, Maxwell Bay, Croker Bay, Dundas Harbour,
Baffin Bay, Cape York-Greenland, Arctic plants, Etah-Greenland,
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Alexandra Fjord-Skraeling Island, Radstock Bay belugas,
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Plankton, Arctic Fossil Corals, Ice-breaking, Fjords, Sunsets
Alaska
(Samples taken aboard the Kapitan Khlebnikov - Quark Expeditions)
Plankton was sampled in open water areas, fjords at the foot of glaciers, and freshwater ponds.
Diatoms were abundant at all sites. Dinoflagellates were more common in the lower latitudes along Lancaster Sound south of Devon Island (The largest uninhabited island in the world.).
The most conspicuous plankters were the pteropods or "sea butterflies."
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 Cypris of barnacle |
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 Fragillariopsis |
 Calanus copepod |
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 Thalassiosira diatoms |
 Radiolaria |
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 Ceratium arcticum |
 Late day view to the north during 24-hours of daylight. |
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 Dinoflagellate |
 Medusa and Nauplius |
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 Dinoflagellate and gastropod |
 Limacina - pteropods |
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 Sampling the edge Croker Bay glacier. |
 Limacina - a shelled pteropod The Inuit name for these is Tuluganguaq, or pretend raven. |
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 "Pseudo-plankton" - a spine from a terrestrial plant. |
 Pteropod shell fragment |
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Collected from tundra ponds and glacier runoff. (Below) |
 Gastropod |
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 Daphnia |
 Nauplius |
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 Dorsal view |
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 "Daughter" cells carried by "mother." |
 Pelecypod larva (Scallop?) |
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 Freshwater copepods |
 Unsorted sample from the net. |
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 Side view of copepod. |
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 Springtail - a brackish water insect, sometimes called a snow-flea. |
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