For the past four years, the Paleoenvironmental Laboratory of Dr. Vera Pospelova (University of Victoria, SEOS) has been involved in continuous monitoring program of fossilizable phytoplankton in Saanich Inlet, British Columbia. Part of the phytoplankton sampling for the research program is done using a sediment trap deployed on the VENUS network. Controlled over the Internet, the sediment trap is an example of interactive instrument installed on the cabled ocean observatory that allows researchers changing instrument settings and monitor status of their experiment over the web.
In this image: Brightfield photomicrograph of diatoms Ditylum brightwelli and one toxic dinoflagellate Dinophysis acuminata collected from a VENUS Strait of Georgia research site. (Oct 2, 2011).
