Alyssa Tsukada is a PhD student at the University of Rhode Island, studying Biological Oceanography. Her research focuses on phytoplankton ecology with an emphasis on diatoms’ role in global carbon sequestration and its relationship to climate changes, currently funded through the Narragansett Bay Long-Term Plankton Time Series.
For her outreach project, Alyssa created a coffee table style book titled “The Little Things: Exploring Nature’s Mirrored Microscopic Morphologies”. This amazing series of side by side images pairs microscopic subjects with their macroscopic mirrors, a way of curating a view of the natural world from the scale of nanometers to light-years.
A selection of Alyssa’s images will be printed and showcased, along with educational materials, in a 3 month exhibit at Studio Blue in the URI Coastal Institute Building, which begins on May 13th.
The Little Things
Exploring Nature’s Mirrored Microscopic Morphologies
A Gallery of Scientific Images curated by Alyssa Tsukada
Gallery Opening May 13th 4-6pm, Curator Remarks @ 4:30pm
Studio Blue. URI Coastal Institute Building
