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 In March, 2004, Dr.GitaiYahel, a Post Doctorate researcher from the Biology Department at the University of Victoria, joined us for two dives at Race Rocks to check out the possibility of doing research there. He is interested in suspension feeders’ nutritional ecology and the role of dissolved substance as a food source for marine organisms. Currently he is trying to establish a field survey of the dissolved and picoplanktonic diet composition of active suspension feeders such as sponge, mussels and tunicates. See the project description on SUSPENSION FEEDER RESEARCH for details of the study.
( 15 minute video - also good underwater images of sponges) Link to the taxonomy of the sponge being used.
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