{"id":1802,"date":"2026-05-17T21:15:31","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T21:15:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/currents.bigelow.org\/?p=1802"},"modified":"2026-05-30T21:21:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T21:21:08","slug":"schmidt-ocean-institute-tiny-copepods-big-impact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/currents.bigelow.org\/?p=1802","title":{"rendered":"Schmidt Ocean Institute: Tiny Copepods, Big Impact"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/embed\/feed\/update\/urn:li:ugcPost:7458213053994618880?compact=1\" height=\"399\" width=\"504\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" title=\"Embedded post\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThey\u2019ve kind of solved all the niches that are out there in the world, and so if you\u2019ve got an interesting question, you can go somewhere in the world and poke at it to understand how they\u2019ve made a living,&#8221; <strong>David Fields<\/strong>, senior research scientist at <strong>Bigelow Laboratory<\/strong>, says with a grin. \u201cAnd on top of that, they\u2019re beautiful.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is likely a <em>Lophothrix<\/em>, a copepod measuring about 5 millimeters. For 30 years, Fields  has studied copepods all around the world. Ubiquitous throughout the ocean, they have adapted to live in many different environments \u2014 from mangrove trees to the Antarctic seafloor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-3e41869c wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button has-custom-width wp-block-button__width-50\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-text-align-center wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/posts\/schmidt-ocean-institute_designingthefuture3-activity-7458214190315536385-ilf6?utm_source=share&amp;utm_medium=member_desktop&amp;rcm=ACoAAAGly-UBPzheuWEAQMeNvHGwaSU1KGkNni0\">View the Full Post on LinkedIn<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThey\u2019ve kind of solved all the niches that are out there in the world, and so if you\u2019ve got an interesting question, you can go somewhere in the world and poke at it to understand how they\u2019ve made a living,&#8221; David Fields, senior research scientist at Bigelow Laboratory, says with a grin. \u201cAnd on top [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1803,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","css_class_manager_body_classes":"","css_class_manager_use_in_post_loop":false},"categories":[11],"tags":[57,52,68,60],"class_list":["post-1802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science-ocean-function","tag-david-fields","tag-john-burns","tag-research-cruise","tag-zooplankton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/currents.bigelow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/currents.bigelow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/currents.bigelow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/currents.bigelow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/currents.bigelow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1802"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/currents.bigelow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1804,"href":"https:\/\/currents.bigelow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1802\/revisions\/1804"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/currents.bigelow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/currents.bigelow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/currents.bigelow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/currents.bigelow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}