They are tiny, but plankton power the planet! In life, these ocean critters create the oxygen we breathe and feed the food web. When they die, plankton sink to the seafloor, where they preserve a time capsule of Earth’s changing climate.
Come learn more about Earth’s unseen engineers and historians – they help us survive and understand how our planet works!
Presented by: Dr. Maddie Wood and Dr. Allie Smith, Marine Geochemist and Marine Biogeochemist, University of California, Santa Cruz and University of South Alabama/Dauphin Island Sea Lab
Photograph of diatoms arranged on a microscope slide by W.M. Grant.
