and other ocean micro-worlds
Stop-motion experiments exploring Scottish ocean micro-worlds. Crochet rockpools by Emily Doolittle (who also composed the score) and an origami food chain from diatoms to sandeels via copepods, brought to life by Clubhouse Animations. Many thanks to Greenlight Creative, pianist Rachel Iwaasa, and the other marine scientists who brought their ideas! showreel on Vimeo
Neil and Peter brought a coastal food chain to the British Origami Society spring convention in Milton Keynes. There was gannet chat followed by gannet folding. but really, quite a lot of diatoms.
The Mapping Ocean Change Through Art project kicked off a season of public workshops around Scotland with a day at Cove Park where we combed the beach, filtered plankton out of the sea, and folded a Scottish coastal food chain from phytoplankton to gannets. Diagrams for many of these are available elsewhere on this site.
As part of a COP26 Science Showcase called “Changing Climate, Changing Stories” at University of Glasgow’s Hunterian Museum, Neil folded the zooplankton typically eaten by a sandeel off the coast of Scotland at 50x magnification. The small copepods (representing Oithona, Acartia, Centropages spp.) are variants on the model diagrammed by Dasa Severova here. The large … Read more