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1/ Good evening everyone and welcome to the 4th day all about plankton research. Now that we have the basics covered on what plankton is, why we study it and the history of plankton research, I’m going to go a bit more personal and introduce you to my own research 👩🔬🎣 
2/ As I said on Day 1, I am a PhD student @uccBEES and @MaREI studying plankton. Specifically, I am looking at the abundance and diversity of zooplankton in a marine reserve over the course of a 2 and a half year time period.
3/ My study site is Lough Hyne, a marine reserve located just outside Skibbereen in West Cork. It is actually Ireland’s first marine reserve designated in 1981. The Lough is 0.6 km long by 0.4 km wide and is completely marine.
1/ Hello again, by now you’re all familiar with #plankton and why we should care about it. Before we go any further, I’m going to take us back to look at the history of plankton research. How did we learn all we did about plankton? Our 🧵starts back in the 1816. #ScienceWeek2022
2/ The story of plankton research begins in Cobh, Co. Cork. A British Naval Officer John Vaughan Thompson was posted to Cork where he discovered barnacle larvae exist in the plankton as ‘cyprids’ and were in fact crustaceans and not molluscs as they had been previously classified
3/ He also discovered that the larvae of crabs and lobsters lived in the plankton as well as ‘zoea’ and underwent a metamorphosis into their adult form. The naturalist community at the time did not agree with his assertions, and classified zoea as separate organisms entirely
