Phytoplankton

…Phytoplankton underpin lake food webs, and their community composition shifts through the year with physical, chemical and predation pressures, moderated by functional traits. The student will use process-based biogeochemical models to study how climate warming, eutrophication and extreme weather alter successional patterns, identify conditions that open windows of opportunity for particular functional groups, and assess likely future changes. The results aim to improve forecasts of phytoplankton

…organisms such as plants, corals, and phytoplankton, but these speeds are difficult to quantify without magnification. In this talk, I highlight my novel method, using dynamic scaling principles and 3D printed models to solve this problem. Dynamic scaling involves creating models with differ in size to the original system and match the physical forces acting upon the model to the original system. I discuss the methodology behind the technique and show how it differs to previous works using dynamically scaled model