Investigating flagellates, plankton and filter feeders - for iPod/iPhone
13 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 14 years ago - ★★★★★ - 1 ratingHow do we enter the strange and fascinating world of small organisms? How do scientists explore their habits, growth, and rather intriguing behaviours? In this album, scientists from Italy, the US and the UK reveal some of the technologies and techniques they use to investigate the behaviour of small aquatic organisms such as flagellates, plankton and filter feeders. In the audio track, Dr David Robinson of The Open University talks about some of the problems and rewards of investigating very small aquatic creatures. This material forms part of The Open University course S204 Biology: uniformity and diversity.
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Investigating flagellates, plankton and filter feeders
March 26, 2010 05:10 - 1 minute - 957 KBA short introduction to this album.
Transcript -- Investigating flagellates, plankton and filter feeders
March 26, 2010 05:10 - 18.4 KB application/pdfTranscript -- A short introduction to this album.
Investigating small aquatic organisms
September 03, 2008 20:40 - 4 minutes - 4.34 MBProfessor David Robinson talks about small aquatic organisms, the techniques used to study them and the influences the environment has on them.
Investigating filter feeders
September 03, 2008 20:39 - 7 minutes - 38.3 MB VideoProfessor Mimi Köehl demonstrates how somesuspension feeders eat.
Transcript -- Investigating filter feeders
September 03, 2008 20:39 - 30.5 KB application/pdfTranscript -- Professor Mimi Köehl demonstrates how somesuspension feeders eat.
Investigating bivalves
May 21, 2008 00:12 - 7 minutes - 40.2 MB VideoProfessor Evan Ward demonstrates how bivalves feed, and how they process the food they ingest.
Transcript -- Investigating bivalves
May 21, 2008 00:12 - 56.2 KB application/pdfTranscript -- Professor Evan Ward demonstrates how bivalves feed, and how they process the food they ingest.
Locating phytoplankton
May 18, 2008 22:32 - 2 minutes - 11.6 MB VideoDr Gabrielle Kennaway uses a conductivity-temperature-depth (CTD) sampler to test for phytoplankton and its movements with the tide.
Transcript -- Locating phytoplankton
May 18, 2008 22:31 - 53.5 KB application/pdfTranscript -- Dr Gabrielle Kennaway uses a conductivity-temperature-depth (CTD) sampler to test for phytoplankton and its movements with the tide.
Investigating flagellates
May 16, 2008 00:03 - 5 minutes - 29.1 MB VideoDr Gianfranco Novarino demonstrates how to isolate flagellates from samples and some of their more unusual feeding behaviour.
Transcript -- Investigating flagellates
May 16, 2008 00:03 - 52.8 KB application/pdfTranscript -- Dr Gianfranco Novarino demonstrates how to isolate flagellates from samples and some of their more unusual feeding behaviour.
Investigating plankton
May 16, 2008 00:02 - 6 minutes - 31.2 MB VideoProfessor Paul Tett investigates how phytoplankton lives in the sea and gives some examples of how it travels and survives.
Transcript -- Investigating plankton
May 16, 2008 00:02 - 60.1 KB application/pdfTranscript -- Professor Paul Tett investigates how phytoplankton lives in the sea and gives some examples of how it travels and survives.