{"id":187,"date":"2021-10-10T20:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-10T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oceanblogs.org\/oceannets\/?p=187"},"modified":"2021-10-26T08:39:51","modified_gmt":"2021-10-26T07:39:51","slug":"flowing-adventure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oceanblogs.org\/oceannets\/2021\/10\/10\/flowing-adventure\/","title":{"rendered":"Flowing Adventure"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Throughout the past few weeks of the mesocosm experiment I have been having these recurring dreams in which I was a traveling microalga. My life as a dinoflagellate named Scrippsiella had been quite ordinary before I was collected from one of the mesocosms. Floating freely in the water column, I had been capturing photons from the sun and used the energy to convert carbon dioxide (CO<sub>2<\/sub>) into sugars and oxygen (O<sub>2<\/sub>). Suddenly, however, I encountered myself in a huge tube, oblivious of what was about to happen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"219\" height=\"979\" src=\"https:\/\/www.oceanblogs.org\/oceannets\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/78\/2021\/10\/Screenshot-2021-10-14-14.51.42.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-188\" \/><figcaption>Dinoflagellate <em>Scrippsiella sp.<\/em> trapped in the lorica of the tintinnid Rhabdonella. Photo from the FlowCam imaging microscope.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>One morning I was taken from this tube and I gently fell into a canister that was taken to the laboratory. Poured through a sieve of 280 \u00b5m by two hands, I slipped into a smaller bottle with the rest of my phytoplankton and zooplankton friends. Suddenly, one of the tintinnids named Rhabdonella enclosed me in its lorica. Its bell-shaped shell, consisting mainly of proteins with incorporated minute minerals, trapped me &#8211; there was no way of getting out again. As much as I felt stuck already, I soon realized that the same two hands added a solution of formol glacial acetic acid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At that point, Rhabdonella and I flowed and sank to the bottom of the Uterm\u00f6hl sedimentation chamber. After 24 hours, we were transfered through a pipette that was then placed into a tighter tube, which was the entrance of a laboratory instrument called the FlowCam. The precise moment when I thought the adventure was over, the FlowCam started pulling us down onto the tube and to an even tighter section called the flow cell. My tintinnid friend and I were enlightened by a pulsating flash light, that took a nice photo of our adventure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Author: Aja Trebec<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"886\" height=\"1181\" src=\"https:\/\/www.oceanblogs.org\/oceannets\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/78\/2021\/10\/20211012_105313.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-189\" \/><figcaption>FlowCam imaging microscope. Photo: Aja Trebec<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Throughout the past few weeks of the mesocosm experiment I have been having these recurring dreams in which I was a traveling microalga. My life as a dinoflagellate named Scrippsiella had been quite ordinary before I was collected from one of the mesocosms. 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