Plankton images from the Bedford Basin (Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada) sampled on 7 April 2025. Images taken by our lab manager, Dr. Ruby Hu.

In January 2025 we took water samples from 10 and 40 m depth in the Bedford Basin (Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada). The following two collages show images of the 51-335 µm size fraction taken and arranged by our lab manager, Dr. Ruby Hu.

Happy new year to all!

Nuwanthi Samarasinghe and Niall McGinty with help of much of the rest of the lab have started sampling the spring bloom plankton in the Bedford Basin.

Take a look at some of the plankton community contributing to this year’s bloom (images taken by Laura Bretherton and Ruby Hu).

Laura Bretherton, Niall McGinty, and Kevan Merrow participated in the Simons Foundation-funded Gradients 5 cruise as part of the SCOPE research program.

During 28 days at sea, Laura, Niall and Kevan collected dozens of samples of phytoplankton and zooplankton communities for analysis back in the lab. When all the processing is done, we will have much better knowledge of elemental (C, N, P) and macromolecular content and ratios for these communties across a gradient that spans …