Photo of the Week

The Scripps Plankton Cameras mounted at the end of the Scripps Pier are a pair of in situ microscopes that have provided nearly 100,000 images a day of marine life at the millimeter to almost micron scale. During the week of April 20th, 2015, a bloom of helical diatoms drifted into view.  These helices, about 1 millimeter in length, are rarely seen in collected samples as they are extremely fragile. Visit http://spc.ucsd.edu to see images of the marine organisms that are off the pier now and visit the archive for past views.