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Latest Updates:

I wanted to have a page that I could express mine and the Marine Docents enthusiam for the patterns
and trends that we discover after processing so many of the samples.

Periodically check back here for new and neat photos I have taken and interesting tidbits that we
have revealed.

To start with a couple of neat things:

I have started to observe Merluccius bilinearis, Silver Hake a.k.a. Whiting , in the ichthyoplankton catch from the New Scantum station (base of Jefferies Ledge). This is nothing new since a NOAA Technical Report NMFS 145 by Berrien and Sibunka shows an abundance around Jeffreis to start in July and then subside in November for 1977-1987. It's just pretty neat to see so many of these beautiful larvae.

We also picked up an Anomolocera opalis in a sample from New Scantum on August 20th.
The first picture is a 100x close-up photo of an A. opalis male's head. The round red protrubence is a eye lens that I
assume may be to locate the females by the photophores on their backs (right picture).

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