Sentences with phrase «as an algae biologist»

As an algae biologist I was initially struck by the cover graphic: a stained glass window made of diatoms, the tiny planktonic creatures whose exquisite outer shells are visible only through the electron microscope.

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Many marine biologists think of the world's biggest alga as the keystone species of its ecosystem, not only in terms of its structure — a huge forestlike environment under the sea — but also in terms of its tremendous productivity in supplying food for the near - shore ecosystem.

Its 3.8 million bases include the complete mitochondrial genomes of three green algae and one moss, as well as genes from other plants, evolutionary biologist Jeffrey Palmer of Indiana University, Bloomington, and his colleagues report today in another paper in Science.

In this problem - based data analysis activity, students assume roles as members of an International Team of Marine Biologists, tasked with predicting and monitoring possible harmful algae blooms.

Biologists in Hawaii are using devices known as «Super Suckers» to eliminate tons of gorilla ogo, a species of invasive algae that is killing coral reefs, fouling beaches and smothering beds of sea grass.