Part of what makes the marine algae so fascinating to me is their life cycles. I’m intrigued by organisms that do things differently from us. And to be honest, from the perspective of someone who studies invertebrates and their life cycles, we humans are rather boring: we’re born into in one body, reproduce (maybe), and then…
Day: June 11, 2015
Green is the new sexy, Part I
I was making my last run through the wet lab today, about to head off to forage for lunch before a meeting elsewhere, when I saw this in one of my bowls: This is one of my feeding treatments for the juvenile urchins. The sheet of green stuff is Ulva sp., a green alga several species…