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In-Situ Image
When towed through the water, the In-situ Ichthyoplankton Imaging System, or ISIIS, provides rare images of larval fishes and other plankton in their ocean habitat.
In-Situ Icthyoplankton Imaging
Marine reserves and the early life stages of fishes
Areas where organisms accumulate during earliest life stages are prime candidates for protection.
When towed through the water, the In-situ Ichthyoplankton Imaging System, or ISIIS, provides rare images of larval fishes and other plankton in their ocean habitat.
In-Situ Image
Postdoc Kirsten Grorud-Colvert is currently investigating the effects of oceanographic fronts on the distribution of larval fishes and other plankton using the In-situ Ichthyoplankton Imaging System (ISIIS) to obtain pictures of planktonic organisms in their natural habitat. Because oceanographic fronts have the potential to accumulate fishes in the plankton during their earliest life stages, these areas are prime candidates for protection. Setting aside frontal areas in marine reserves could help to meet management goals and preserve present and future communities of fishes and other marine organisms.
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