Kelly Benoit-Bird studies ocean organisms smaller than a microchip and bigger than a luxury motor home — the tiniest crustaceans to the mightiest cetaceans. In effect, she studies just about anything that swims or drifts in the sea: copepods and krill, diatoms and dinoflagellates, siphonophores and salps, spinner dolphins and Humboldt squid, Pacific sardines and [...]
Tag » Ecology
February 1, 2011
Genius of the Sea
Ecosystem processes hidden in deep ocean waters are falling prey to Kelly Benoit-Bird's investigations
