Seguimos con el programa “Una Ventana al Mundo Micro”, y desde 2019 estamos entregando a maestros y maestras de Xalapa Veracruz, para que nos ayuden en el fomento de la investigación en edades tempranas
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Segundo ciclo de talleres: Cierre de año 2019
Así fue nuestro segundo ciclo de talleres uniendo las ciudades de Xalapa y Cozumel en México.
Conquistando el microcosmos con Foldscope
En esta breve nota los invitamos a conocer el microcosmos. Promovamos los talleres de aprendizaje de la microciencia y conozcamos el tejido que une la vida en nuestro planeta.
Exploradores del microcosmos CDMX (ESP & ENG)
Microcosm Explorers CDMX (Mexico City) En el marco de mi servicio social, estoy ofreciendo un taller a diversos grupos de niños, niñas y jóvenes en la Ciudad de México. El taller se titula “Exploradores del Microcosmos”. Yo soy estudiante de la carrera de biología en la Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Unidad Xochimilco. As part of my…
Diversity that boggles our minds – polychaete worms
Photo: “A variety of marine worms”: plate from Das Meer by M.J. Schleiden (1804–1881). In 15 minutes of looking at the same rock I collected on the beach, I found more than 12 different species of polychaete worms. Some of them were swimmers; wriggling in the water column. Some of them had fans, others appendages…
Bryozoa – finally got a living Membranipora under a foldscope – part 3
After trying several different tricks; finally figured out how to mount these delicate creatures on a glass slide. Offcourse, they are perturbed – they run back inside the shell.. so this one is living inside the shell. None the less; you can see the seat and the tentacles all folded to fit inside the tiny…
Bryozoa saga continued – part 2
If you saw my previous post; I am stuck looking at billions of sargassum leaves on a beach – and Bryozoa covering almost all of them. See here. So I started poking in the water in hope of catching some fresh macroalgae to show up.. and after some adventures – did get some on my…
A floating partnership – Bryozoa – Akumal, México
As humans, we all value a piece of land to call home. It’s not so different sometimes in the ocean. Many invertebrates would colonize just about any surface you can find in the open waters. And Bryozoa are masters of colonizing just about anything.. even if it’s a floating algae. I am on a peninsula…