Communicate important science!
\nDo crafts, look through microscopes and cuddle giant microbes!<\/p>\n
The Broader Impacts Group (BIG) will be doing demonstrations and activities at the New England Aquarium on World Oceans Day.<\/p>\n
Our booth “Making the Invisible Visible: The Secret, Bizarre, and Amazing World of Plankton” is complete with giant microbe plush toys, microscope demonstrations, build-your-own-super-plankton craft activity and jaw-dropping plankton video footage.<\/p>\n
It was a big hit at the 2013 Cambridge Science Festival (CSF), so we are excited to take it on a second run. \u00a0Check out a photo slideshow of the booth at the CSF\u00a0here<\/a>\u00a0and this article in the MIT News here<\/a>!<\/p>\n Why are plankton important? Communicate important science! Do crafts, look through microscopes and cuddle giant microbes! The Broader Impacts Group (BIG) will be doing demonstrations and activities at the New England Aquarium on World Oceans Day. Our booth “Making the Invisible Visible: The Secret, Bizarre, and Amazing World of Plankton” is complete with giant microbe plush toys, microscope demonstrations,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":114,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.whoi.edu\/big\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.whoi.edu\/big\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.whoi.edu\/big\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.whoi.edu\/big\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/114"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.whoi.edu\/big\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/web.whoi.edu\/big\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":132,"href":"https:\/\/web.whoi.edu\/big\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131\/revisions\/132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.whoi.edu\/big\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.whoi.edu\/big\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.whoi.edu\/big\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nThe term plankton comes from the Greek word \u201cPlanktos\u201d meaning wanderer or drifter.\u00a0 Plankton are tiny plants (phytoplankton) and animals (zooplankton) that are incapable of swimming against major currents in the ocean.\u00a0 Although plankton are so small that they go unnoticed to the naked eye, they are some of the most important and oldest marine creatures out there! \u00a0Plankton influence atmospheric levels of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide and our global climate \u2013 they provide roughly half of the oxygen that we breathe! \u00a0These tiny organisms have left behind their mark on our planet for millions of years, including beautiful geological deposits like the massive White Cliffs of Dover, as well as key natural resources in oil and gas reserves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"