Peter Sheesley - Views Through the Microscope

A lot of my time has been spent learning to identify plankton through the microscopes. I've found I can get somewhat decent photos of what I'm seeing by holding my phone's camera up to the eyepiece. I'm posting these because I think the intricate forms are amazing, and to share what I've been seeing.

First, the phytoplankton (plants):

Protoperidinium

Asterionellopsis

Coscinodiscus

Ditylum

Dictyocha

Eucampia, Pseudonitzschia, Chaetoceros, Coscinodiscus, Probiscia

Skeletonema

Stephanopyxis

Odontella

Thalasionema (center)

Next, the zooplankton (animals):

Adult Copepod, side view

Adult Copepod, top view

Copepod Nauplius

Cypris Larva 

Rotifer

Another Rotifer

Shrimp Larva

Polychaete

Barnacle Nauplius

Brachiolaria (second larval stage of sea star) amidst a lot of phytoplankton

Brachiolaria

Tintinnid

And, views of both zooplankton and phytoplankton from both dissecting scope and compound scope:

Cladocera, dissecting scope

Zoea, dissecting scope

Zoea, compound scope

Noctiluca scintillans

Noctiluca scintillans

Polychaete

Polychaete

Polychaete

Polychaete

And, some other interesting things:

Close-up of young jellyfish mouth

Close-up of young jellyfish tentacles

Ctenophore

A ctenophore's pharynx, stomach, and tentacle bases

A ctenophore's retracted tentacle

Finally, a few movies through the microscope:

Tracking a Dinoflagellate

The Undulations of a Polychaete

The Brachiolaria

The Living Sea, in the compound microscope

The Living Sea, in the dissecting microscope