Zooscan Zooplankton Image Gallery

Zooplankton Image Gallery (UVP & Zooscan)

This album compiles images of fixed meso- to macrozooplankton digitized with the benchtop Zooscan imaging system and associated Zooprocess software suite (www.zooscan.com) developed at the Laboratoire d'Oceanographie de Villefranche, France (LOV, CNRS/UPMC). Organisms range from approximately 300 µm to several cm, and span across numerous phyla. At present, images are originated from 3 different projects: TARA OCEANS, POINT B long term time series and MOUTON 2007. We do not intend to organize them according to a strict hierarchical phylogenetic classification but rather as zooplankton categories. Therefore, the gallery structure will change in the future. Please participate in the improvement of the gallery by commenting, identifying organisms and correcting possibly wrong current identifications. Contacts : jbaptiste.romagnan@obs-vlfr.fr, fp@obs-vlfr.fr, stemmann@obs-vlfr.fr, picheral@obs-vlfr.fr, or gorsky@obs-vlfr.fr. If you use any of the presented pictures for any kind of purpose (illustration, outreach, communication, etc), please refer to "Laboratoire d'Oceanographie de Villefranche (LOV), ZooScan image project, www.zooscan.com". This initiative was undertaken in the framework of the activities of SCOR Working Group 130 Automatic Visual Plankton Identification (www.scor-wg130.net), the CIESM Zooplankton Indicators program (http://www.ciesm.org/marine/programs/zooplankton.htm) and the TARA Oceans expedition (http://oceans.taraexpeditions.org/), it was supported by the SESAME IP of the EU FP6 program (www.sesame-ip.eu).