Sometimes our journey through the microcosmos feels like an expedition, a voyage filled with deep dives into the masses of organisms basking under the glow of our microscope. So what does it mean when you don’t find anything. When you gather your samples and excitedly prepare them for the microscope, only to find a landscape lacking in the life you expected to find?
Footage provided by:
Vanessa I. Stenvers
GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research & Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History
Charlotte Havermans
Helmholtz Young Investigator Group ARJEL, Alfred Wegner Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research
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