Warren Currie 🦠🦐
@drplanktonguy.bsky.social
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Research Scientist GreatLakes,
Fisheries & Oceans Canada.
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Limnology Oceanography
Plankton Zooplankton FoodWebs Modeling
Research Scientist GreatLakes,
Fisheries & Oceans Canada.
Personal SciComm account. Repost does not imply agreement.
🇨🇦 🇺🇸 Collaborative Open Science
Limnology Oceanography
Plankton Zooplankton FoodWebs Modeling
I am glad this old shipwreck hasn't been entangled in equipment over the years. This zone of Lake Ontario regularly has active surveys using a variety of equipment, including bottom net trawls. Must luckily be in-between standardized stations.
November 16, 2025 at 1:30 PM
I am glad this old shipwreck hasn't been entangled in equipment over the years. This zone of Lake Ontario regularly has active surveys using a variety of equipment, including bottom net trawls. Must luckily be in-between standardized stations.
This is not good. The energy that is required to heat the volume of one of the world's largest lakes by an extra 3°C is enormous. Excellent comments by colleagues Jay Austin and Maggie Xenopoulos on the anomalous heating of Lake Superior.
November 11, 2025 at 1:41 PM
This is not good. The energy that is required to heat the volume of one of the world's largest lakes by an extra 3°C is enormous. Excellent comments by colleagues Jay Austin and Maggie Xenopoulos on the anomalous heating of Lake Superior.
Weekend #Plankton Factoid 🦠🦐
This is the phyllosoma larva of a Spiny "Rock" Lobster, which can spend as much as a year drifting in the plankton.
#MarineBiology #science
This is the phyllosoma larva of a Spiny "Rock" Lobster, which can spend as much as a year drifting in the plankton.
#MarineBiology #science
September 27, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Weekend #Plankton Factoid 🦠🦐
This is the phyllosoma larva of a Spiny "Rock" Lobster, which can spend as much as a year drifting in the plankton.
#MarineBiology #science
This is the phyllosoma larva of a Spiny "Rock" Lobster, which can spend as much as a year drifting in the plankton.
#MarineBiology #science
So anyone at the beach around eastern Toronto GTA will be noticing significantly colder water due to an UPWELLING resulting from recent prolonged winds from the NW.
This process is explained in a recent video for Lake Michigan from 13 News western Michigan.
This process is explained in a recent video for Lake Michigan from 13 News western Michigan.
September 1, 2025 at 5:15 PM
So anyone at the beach around eastern Toronto GTA will be noticing significantly colder water due to an UPWELLING resulting from recent prolonged winds from the NW.
This process is explained in a recent video for Lake Michigan from 13 News western Michigan.
This process is explained in a recent video for Lake Michigan from 13 News western Michigan.
Lough Neagh in Northern Ireland has a serious cyanobacteria bloom problem and doesn't look like it will improve anytime soon. The system is hypereutrophic, with more than half of the phosphorus load coming from agriculture, but also a large contribution from aging wastewater treatment plants.
August 30, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Lough Neagh in Northern Ireland has a serious cyanobacteria bloom problem and doesn't look like it will improve anytime soon. The system is hypereutrophic, with more than half of the phosphorus load coming from agriculture, but also a large contribution from aging wastewater treatment plants.
This weekend is the last chance to say goodbye to our local West Montrose Covered Bridge ("Kissing Bridge"). The historic 145 year old span of the Grand River is the last remaining original one in #Ontario . It will be replaced over the next 2 years by a rebuilt covered bridge, with hopefully many
August 9, 2025 at 4:11 PM
This weekend is the last chance to say goodbye to our local West Montrose Covered Bridge ("Kissing Bridge"). The historic 145 year old span of the Grand River is the last remaining original one in #Ontario . It will be replaced over the next 2 years by a rebuilt covered bridge, with hopefully many
Weekend #Plankton Factoid 🦠🦐
Did you know that plankton can get sunburn? UV radiation can affect microbes, #phytoplankton and #zooplankton by causing cellular molecular or genetic damage. While some species can avoid the surface zone, others can not, so therefore create protective compounds like
Did you know that plankton can get sunburn? UV radiation can affect microbes, #phytoplankton and #zooplankton by causing cellular molecular or genetic damage. While some species can avoid the surface zone, others can not, so therefore create protective compounds like
August 9, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Weekend #Plankton Factoid 🦠🦐
Did you know that plankton can get sunburn? UV radiation can affect microbes, #phytoplankton and #zooplankton by causing cellular molecular or genetic damage. While some species can avoid the surface zone, others can not, so therefore create protective compounds like
Did you know that plankton can get sunburn? UV radiation can affect microbes, #phytoplankton and #zooplankton by causing cellular molecular or genetic damage. While some species can avoid the surface zone, others can not, so therefore create protective compounds like
Weekend #Plankton Factoid 🦠🦐
Plankton have #parasites , just like any other organism, but in some cases, this leads to improved feeding conditions. #Daphnia zooplankton must often feed on freshwater cyanobacteria, which isn't an ideal food for them. However, when the #cyanobacteria has a
Plankton have #parasites , just like any other organism, but in some cases, this leads to improved feeding conditions. #Daphnia zooplankton must often feed on freshwater cyanobacteria, which isn't an ideal food for them. However, when the #cyanobacteria has a
August 2, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Weekend #Plankton Factoid 🦠🦐
Plankton have #parasites , just like any other organism, but in some cases, this leads to improved feeding conditions. #Daphnia zooplankton must often feed on freshwater cyanobacteria, which isn't an ideal food for them. However, when the #cyanobacteria has a
Plankton have #parasites , just like any other organism, but in some cases, this leads to improved feeding conditions. #Daphnia zooplankton must often feed on freshwater cyanobacteria, which isn't an ideal food for them. However, when the #cyanobacteria has a
Weekend #Plankton Factoid 🦠🦐
27 M tonnes. Dutch NIOZ scientists found that nanoplastics (<1 μm) are not only widespread, but equivalent to the mass of macro & microplastics! Polyethylene terephthalate (PET), polystyrene (PS) and polyvinyl chloride (PVC) #plastics don't just float on the surface,
27 M tonnes. Dutch NIOZ scientists found that nanoplastics (<1 μm) are not only widespread, but equivalent to the mass of macro & microplastics! Polyethylene terephthalate (PET), polystyrene (PS) and polyvinyl chloride (PVC) #plastics don't just float on the surface,
July 26, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Weekend #Plankton Factoid 🦠🦐
A new paper using expert interviews lays out ecosystem services provided by plankton. These range from economic provisioning of feed or oils, regulating nutrients and the #climate through the carbon pump, cultural and tourism, and oxygenation of the atmosphere. They
A new paper using expert interviews lays out ecosystem services provided by plankton. These range from economic provisioning of feed or oils, regulating nutrients and the #climate through the carbon pump, cultural and tourism, and oxygenation of the atmosphere. They
July 19, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Weekend #Plankton Factoid 🦠🦐
For a while, there has been concern for how the ocean's #ecosystem is being modeled. Too often it is oversimplified with #phytoplankon and #zooplankton added almost as an afterthought, much less higher trophic levels, or so detailed as to miss relationships and
For a while, there has been concern for how the ocean's #ecosystem is being modeled. Too often it is oversimplified with #phytoplankon and #zooplankton added almost as an afterthought, much less higher trophic levels, or so detailed as to miss relationships and
July 12, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Weekend #Plankton Factoid 🦠🦐
For a while, there has been concern for how the ocean's #ecosystem is being modeled. Too often it is oversimplified with #phytoplankon and #zooplankton added almost as an afterthought, much less higher trophic levels, or so detailed as to miss relationships and
For a while, there has been concern for how the ocean's #ecosystem is being modeled. Too often it is oversimplified with #phytoplankon and #zooplankton added almost as an afterthought, much less higher trophic levels, or so detailed as to miss relationships and