A fluorescence microscopy image of phytoplankton including chain-forming diatoms and many large dinoflagellates. The different colors indicate different components of the cells including the cell's ...

A singular scene from last year’s red tide event in the Gulf of Mexico sticks in the memory of phytoplankton ecologist Vincent Lovko. “I got to go up in a helicopter with a news crew,” Lovko says.

Sally, one of my lab mates, takes amazing videos of protists under the microscope (she posts these on her Instagram, pondlife_pondlife – go check it out). She showed me this video of a Dinoflagellate, ...

Microscope image of one of the samples examined for this study (approximately 53 million years old). The photo shows the fossil remains of various species of dinoflagellates, each measuring ...

Scott Whittaker magnifies unseen worlds. Small details become a big deal when they are seen through a scanning electron microscope. Mr. Whittaker, the scanning electron microscopy lab manager at the ...

Dinoflagellates is not a word you hear every day of the week. In fact, many people probably get through their entire lives without ever coming in contact with the word. Yet, the dinoflagellates are a ...