#science is pretty

[wedgegeologydragon]

Plates of Planktonic (top) and Benthic (bottom) foraminifera (micro organisms that make carbonaceous skeletons) I drew to include with my project. I did a study on the forams of the North West Shelf of Australia (modern) to correlate the percentages of each found at certain depths, so that my supervisor had a modern analogue for paleodepths in his research.  Planktonic forams are so fragile, but look mostly the same. The benthic ones are so varied and pretty! 

Here is the poster I made; showing just because I like to visualise data and so I made a pretty cross section. As you can see, the percentage plankton data flips with the depth values at the 200m mark: 200m is the end of the “photic” zone, and so benthic forams don’t live further down than that (meaning the percentage of plankton, which fall to the ocean floor as they die, increases). 

[ktfranceebee]

Luminol mixing with "Comet" bathroom cleaner to demonstrate a false positive reaction for the presence of blood. Aka pretty lights.

[ktfranceebee]

Another fun luminol video!

[profsalcedo]

Spring is coming to my part of CA. My nose is getting stuffy because of the pollen, but the beauty is #worthIt

[profsalcedo]

It’s February here in the DC area and it’s cold. And then hot, and then cold, and then hot. But today it’s cold. I wanted to remember summer, so here’s a picture I took in California a few years ago.

[ghost-fish]

Someone left cell culture media out in a dish and it made pretty crystals c:

[localareamom]

NASA laboratory experiments suggest the dark material coating some geological features of Jupiter's moon Europa is likely sea salt from a subsurface ocean, discolored by exposure to radiation. The presence of sea salt on Europa's surface suggests the ocean is interacting with its rocky seafloor -- an important consideration in determining whether the icy moon could support life.

(via NASA Research Reveals Europa's Mystery Dark Material Could Be Sea Salt | NASA)

[molecularbiologistproblems]

Call me a glutton for punishment, but I thoroughly enjoy the former!