Specialized camera system gives unprecedented view of twilight zone September 1, 2020
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With still so much to learn about the planktonic creatures that support the marine food web, scientists with the Northeast U.S. Shelf Long-Term Ecological Research (NES-LTER) project and the Ocean Twilight Zone team have developed the In-situ Ichthyoplankton Imaging System (ISIIS) to take better images of these microscopic organisms in their natural environment-all the way down to the mesopelagic.