Plankton Patterns Chelsea Clarke June 20, 2015 Art Graphite I have been working on shrinking and simplifying some of my plankton drawings and turning them into geometric patterns that could be used as layers in the prints that I plan to make based on...
Polychaete Larvae Chelsea Clarke June 20, 2015 Art Graphite and colored pencil Adult polychaete worms live in the sediment on the sea floor, but their larvae live as zooplankton before settling to the bottom to live in the mud. The larvae on the right...
Barnacle Nauplii Chelsea Clarke June 20, 2015 Art Graphite Some zooplankton spend their whole lives as plankton, but others are only plankton for certain stages of their lives. Many benthic (sea floor) creatures have larvae that live in the water...
Pteropods Chelsea Clarke June 20, 2015 Art Graphite Pteropods are tiny planktonic sea snails. They swim by flapping their wing-like feet and eat by straining phytoplankton and smaller zooplankton from the water. Many of them spend the daytime in...
Chaetognath Chelsea Clarke June 20, 2015 Art Graphite Chaetognaths or arrow worms are predatory zooplankton that eat copepods and other smaller zooplankton and also fish larvae. They are large enough to be seen by the naked eye, but they are still...
Copepods Chelsea Clarke June 20, 2015 Art Graphite Copepods are one of the most common zooplankton in the Chukchi Sea. The scientists on this cruise have been seeing more of them than any other zooplankton. Most copepods graze on phytoplankton...
Ceratium Dinoflagellate Chelsea Clarke June 20, 2014 Art Colored Pencil Dinoflagellates are the second largest group of phytoplankton after diatoms. They can move somewhat by using their flagella and many of them migrate daily between the surface where there...
Fragilariopsis Chelsea Clarke June 20, 2014 Art Graphite and colored pencil Fragilariopsis is a chain forming ice algae...
Nitzschia Ice Algae Chelsea Clarke June 19, 2014 Art Colored pencil and graphite Nitzchia is another ice algae diatom. It forms chains, star shapes, and complex patterns, and its more flattened shape gives it more surface area to absorb light since there...
Melosira Chelsea Clarke June 18, 2014 Art Acrylic ink, colored pencil, and graphite Melosira is an ice algae diatom that lives in the sea ice and forms long chains that hang down into the...