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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
