Learn how to teach the Plankton Station aboard the Schoolship and how to identify live zooplankton.

1. INLAND SEAS EDUCATION ASSOCIATION “ Protecting the Great Lakes through Education” Plankton Station

4. Plankton Plant plankton Animal plankton = Phytoplankton = Zooplankton

8. The Great Lakes Food Web SUN Zooplankton Large Fish (Piscivores) Phytoplankton Forage Fish Benthos Detritus

10. Contaminants in the Great Lakes Food Web Source: EPA Great Lakes National Program Office

12. Bioconcentration Source: EPA Great Lakes National Program Office

22. COPEPODS Calanoid Copepod Cyclopoid Copepod

23. Source: NOAA Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory Calanoid Copepod

24. Cyclopoid Copepods Sources: NOAA Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory

25. Sources: NOAA Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory

26. Harpacticoid Copepod Source: USGS Nonindigenous Aquatic Species Database

27. Copepod nauplius/nauplii COPEPODS

28. Copepod nauplius Source: Micrographia

29. CLADOCERANS Bosmina Daphnia

30. Bosmina Source: Central Michigan University

31. Daphnia Sources: Advancing the Science of Limnology and Oceanography (left); NOAA Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory (right)

32. CLADOCERANS Chydorus

33. Chydorus Source: Central Michigan University

34. Leptodora CLADOCERANS Polyphemus Source: Central Michigan University

35. ROTIFERS Asplanchna Keratella Colonial Rotifer

36. Asplanchna Source: Micrographia

37. Keratella Source: Advancing the Science of Limnology and Oceanography

38. Colonial rotifer

39. MYSIDS Mysis relicta (opossum shrimp)

40. Mysis relicta Source: NOAA Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory

41. EXOTIC SPECIES Bythotrephes longiramus (spiny water flea)

42. Source: NOAA Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory Bythotrephes

43. EXOTIC SPECIES Cercopagis pengoi (fish hook water flea)

44. Cercopagis Bythotrephes Source: NOAA Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory

45. ZEBRA MUSSELS Veliger Adult Source: NOAA Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory (right)

46. Zebra mussel veliger Source: NOAA Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory

47. Bloody Red Shrimp Hemimysis anomala Source: NOAA Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory

48. Seasonal Succession of Zooplankton Abundance May June July Aug

49. Plankton Net 30 C A A R

50. The Plankton Station