Handy Trick

WHOI biologist and NSF post-doctoral fellow Holly Moeller examines some of the marine microbe cultures she is growing in light and temperature conditions that mimic parts of the open ocean. Moeller received a PhD in terrestrial ecology, but recently turned her attention back to the marine environment (she received her masters in biological oceanography from the MIT-WHOI Joint Program). She is particularly interested in a group of predatory organisms that are able to incorporate traits from their prey, such as a protozoa that acquires photosynthesis by consuming marine algae.(Photo by Ken Kostel, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)