Links

Phytoplankton:

From the NASA Earth Science Enterprise: 
http://kids.earth.nasa.gov

• What are Phytoplankton? 
  http://kids.earth.nasa.gov/seawifs/phytoplankton.htm
  
  
• Ocean Productivity Activity: 
  http://kids.earth.nasa.gov/seawifs/phyto4.htm
  
  
• How do phytoplankton control the carbon cycle?
  http://kids.earth.nasa.gov/seawifs/carbon2.htm

From the website of Dr. Jan Rines,
a scientist from the University of Rhode Island who is participating in this LOCO project:
http://thalassa.gso.uri.edu:16080/rines/

• Diatom Flora Page/phytoplankton:
  http://thalassa.gso.uri.edu/flora/ppl.htm
  
  
• Phytoplankton Photo Showcase: 
  http://thalassa.gso.uri.edu/flora/showcase.htm

From the Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences: 
http://www.bigelow.org

• Phytoplankton:  Sink or Swim: 
  http://www.bigelow.org/foodweb/microbe2.html
  
  
• Phytoplankton:
  http://www.bigelow.org/foodweb/microbe0.html

Zooplankton:

From the University of California San Diego

• Copepod Still Image Gallery:
  http://jaffeweb.ucsd.edu/pages/celeste/Stills/index.html
  
  
• The Virtual Copepod Gallery:
  http://jaffeweb.ucsd.edu/pages/celeste/copepods.html
  

From the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History: 

• The World of Copepods,
  http://www.nmnh.si.edu/iz/copepod/

Thin Layers:

• Thin Layers—searching for Critical Scales: 
  http://www.gso.uri.edu/criticalscales/
  
  
• The Thin Layers Program: 
  http://www.gso.uri.edu/criticalscales/program/index.html
  
  
• Plankton Bio-Optical Oceanography Group, Oregon State University
  http://argon.coas.oregonstate.edu/biooptics/index.htm

Monterey Bay, California—the site for this research:

• Monterey Bay Aquarium: 
  http://www.montereybayaquarium.org/
  
  
• Virtual Dive into the Monterey Bay Canyon:
  http://www.montereybayaquarium.org/efc/efc_mbh/dsc_about_life.asp
  
  
• Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute:
  http://www.mbari.org/
  
  
• Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary: 
  http://bonita.mbnms.nos.noaa.gov/
  
  
• Map of Monterey Canyon and boundaries of the National Marine Sanctuary:
  http://montereybay.noaa.gov/intro/maps/mbnms1_lg.jpg