MNPS Clark Fork - Diatoms: Jewels of the Sea with Heidi Abresch

Diatoms are single-celled algae housed in intricate glass cell walls. They live in water everywhere on earth and produce about 20% of our oxygen! Explore their beautiful watery world and discover some of the ways we can learn about our environment through diatoms. From Nov 10, 2023.

[LorenBahls]

Excellent presentation. Good job, Heidi!

[robertopacheco]

Thank you for the video, I love algae, diatoms because they are so beatiful and its forms like radial symmetry, bilateral symmetry and other shapes which I don t know how to interpret them, I have a small mycroscopy and sometimes watch the microsopic algae and paramecium swiming through a few drops of water as if they were microscopic dolphins, it is so nice to watch all of this!..

[BrentElisens]

6:01 I thought someone made art, drawing/painting them. Those are actual diatoms which makes it impressive. Also, lots of lecture videos out there but she makes it tolerable to listen to another human talk.