Last Friday, Kalliopi Monoyios featured research in JoVE on her Scientific American blog, Symbiartic.
Though her blog generally focuses on the intersection between science and art, our SCUVA experimental video was so visually compelling, it fit right in with the rest of her posts.
I Heart Copepods. You should, too.
Dr. Kakani Katija and her colleagues published a paper this week in JOVE that shows off a cool new device they’ve developed to record fluid motion caused by the movements of animals in their native habitats using a laser and a hand held video recording device they’ve dubbed SCUVA (self-contained underwater velocimetry apparatus). The device illuminates particles in the water and records their motion as an animal moves through the field of view. The video footage can then be plugged into software that tracks each particle’s movement, creating a neat diagram of vectors around the traveling organism. The device is particularly significant because it allows data to be collected in situ rather than in a lab where native conditions and behavior are difficult if not impossible to recreate. The resulting stills are visually intriguing, but the video clips contained in the author interview are even better.
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