Microscale

»Where the telescope ends the microscope begins, and who can say which has the wider vision?«

Victor Hugo

 

The ocean is teeming with microscopic plants and animals known collectively as plankton. Each individual organism is tiny, yet, taken as a whole, this ​floating, drifting community delivers important ecosystem services. On my journey into theses microcosms I meet a lot of species on the way – spiralized cyanobacteria, circular diatoms, armored dinoflagellates, stacked shells, resting states and more wonders.