Accession No.: 2001-17  
PROCESSING RECORD  
SCRIPPS INSTITUTION OF OCEANOGRAPHY ARCHIVES  
Mullin, Michael Mahlon (1937-2000)  
Michael Mahlon Mullin Papers, 1964-2000  
Physical Description: 14 record center cartons, 1 mapcase folder  
Description: The accession consists of the papers of biological  
oceanographer Michael Mullin including his observations on  
expeditions, laboratory notes, correspondence, notebooks, and  
manuscripts, 1964-2000.  
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MICHAEL M. MULLIN  
Papers, 1964-2000  
Accession Number 2001-17  
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MS Prep for Mullin chapter in Plankton Dynamics of the S. Calil  
Bight, n.d.  
MS Prep for Mullin chapter in Plankton Dynamics of the S. Calil  
Bight, n.d.  
MS Prep for Mullin chapter in Plankton Dynamic of the S. Calil  
Bight, 1982-1989  
10P20-28, Uronema pelagica, n. sp., A New Marine Hymenostome  
Ciliate  
MS Prep, Contrastors Recruitment of Hake  
[Field Notes, n.d.-1985]  
[Papers, May-July 1985]  
[Publications, July 1984-April 1985]  
[Field Notes, n.d.-January 1985]  
More MS, Roman and Mullin stuff from AIMS  
More MS, Roman and Mullin stuff from AIMS  
Sabbatical  
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Sabbatical, n.d.-1981  
Sabbatical, 1982-1983  
MS Prep Roman, Furnas, and Mullin  
Roman, Furnas and Mullin, ORI C Maps  
Rodriguez and Mullin, MS Prep, Biomass and Body Weight, n.d.  
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Rodriguez and Mullin, MS Prep, Biomass and Body Weight,  
May-December 1984  
Rodriguez and Mullin, MS Prep, Biomass and Body Weight, 1985  
Size Structure Zooplankton Revised  
Size Structure Zooplankton Revised  
Mullin and Rodriguez, “Diel and Climatic Variations of Size  
Distribution of Zooplanktonic Biomass in a Complex Oceanic  
Ecosystem,” [March-August 1985]  
15 N to NOAA  
15 N to NOAA  
15 N to NOAA  
[“Stable Nitrogen Isotopes in Zooplankton: Geographic and  
Temporal Pattern,” n.d.-August 1983]  
[Reports, Joint Water and Pollution Control Plant, December 1975-  
Juen 1983]  
[Long Range Effects Research Program and Financial Support  
Program, April-December 1980]  
[Gregory Rau, Reference, n.d.-June 1981]  
[Proposal-“The Use of Stable Isotopes to Dissect Pollutant Pathways  
and Food Webs in Marine Plankton,” December 1979-May 1993]  
[AGU/ASLO Ocean Sciences Meeting, November 1987]  
Proposals to the National Science Foundation, 1991  
Proposals to the National Science Foundation, 1992  
Grant Proposals, Reviews, 1991  
“Dynamics of the Continental Margins: A Report to the US  
Department of Energy,” November 1990  
Minerals Management Service Proposal, 1991  
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[Focal Technologies, Optical Plankton Counter, 1991  
[California Sea Grant Proposal, “Production of Copepod Nauplii and  
Anchovy Spawning Around the Pt. Conception Upwelling Site,  
July 1991-1992]  
“Copepod Egg Production, Moulting, Growth and Mortality Rates  
and Secondary Production,” A Pre-Proposal submitted for  
consideration of funding to NOAA/Coastal Oceans Program by  
William T. Peterson  
[NSF Proposal, “Vertical and Horizontal Distribution of Calanus  
pacificus Around the Point Conception, Ca Upwelling Site and its  
Relation to Seasonal Population Dynamics, November 1991-  
February 1992]  
[NSF Proposal, “GIOBEC: Topography, Stratification and Variation  
in Growth and Reproductive Rates of Calanus Around Georges Band  
(Compared to Southern California Bight),” July-August 1991]  
[NSF Proposal, “Variation in Natality and Mortality in Pelagic  
Copepod Populations in the Southern California Sector of the  
California Current,” May-June 1991]  
[NSF Proposal, “Mesoscale Variation Rates of Reproduction of  
Planktonic Copepods in an upwelling Region off of Southern  
California,” October 1990-January 1991]  
[NSF Proposal, “Spatial and Temporal Variation in Egg Production  
and Herbivory of Copepod Species off Southern California,”  
September 1988-June 1990]  
[NSF Proposal, “Interannual Variation in Relative Fecundity of  
California Current Copepods,” January 1988-April 1989]  
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NSF Proposals  
Mullin/Jackson, NSF  
NSF Proposals  
NSF Proposals/Reviews  
[Figures and Graphs, n.d.]  
NSF Reviews  
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NSF Reviews  
Instrumentation, NSF Proposals  
Shriasu Project, [January 1985-June 1986]  
Shirasu Project, [July-October 1986]  
Shirasu Project, [November 1986]  
Shirasu Project, [February 17-June 1987]  
Shirasu Project, [November 1988]  
Correspondence Regarding the Deep Tank Proposal  
[NSF Proposal, “Nitrogen Isotope Fractionation and Recycling in  
Marine Planktonic Ecosystems,” October 3, 1985]  
[NSF Proposal, “Nitrogen Isotope Fractionation and Recycling in  
Marine Planktonic Ecosystems,” October 3, 1985]  
[“Elemental and Isotopic Fractionation of Carbon and Nitrogen by  
Marine Planktonic Copepods and Implications to the Marine Nitrogen  
Cycle,” September 1984]  
[Nitrogen Limitation of Zooplanktonic Production and its Effect on  
the Marine Nitrogen Cycle,” December 1984]  
[NCSU Correspondence RE: NSF Proposal, “Nitrogen Isotope  
Fractionation and Recycling in Marine Planktonic Ecosystems,”  
February 1985]  
Deep Tank Proposal, [June 1981-May 1984]  
Deep Tank Proposal, [January-June 1982]  
SIO Deep Tank Proposal, [November 1982]  
SIO Deep Tank Proposal, [December 1982]  
SIO Deep Tank Proposal, [January 1985]  
Office of Naval Research, [1984]  
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Tynan-Cal Space, [March 1989]  
California Space Institute, [April 3, 1984]  
Proposal for California Space Institute, April 3, 1984  
[NSF Proposal, “Diel Vertical Migration in Marine Zooplankton,”  
January 1984]  
Office of Naval Research, [December 1983-February 1984]  
[Proposal for UC Ship Time aboard R/V Melville, September 1994]  
[UC Ship Funds, February-June 1991]  
[Valtz Chair Search Committee, 1991]  
Academic Planning, [August 1990]  
Duplicate Pubs, [November 1987-June 1991]  
Miscellaneous Administration  
Code, [January 1977-July 1981]  
[NSF Proposal, “Zonation and Maintenance of Planktonic  
Populations in the Northern California Upwelling Zone,”  
January 1981]  
[NSF Proposal, “Zonation and Maintenance of Planktonic  
Populations in the Northern California Upwelling Zone,”  
January-July 1981]  
[Coastal Ocean Dynamics Experiment, June 1983]  
[NSF Proposal, “Temporal Changes in the Vertical Distribution of  
Zooplankton in the Basins off Southern California,” n.d.]  
[Request for UC Ship Funds, January 1991-January 1992]  
[Request for UC Ship Funds, January 1987-April 1992]  
[Request for UC Ship Funds, January 1987-February 1986]  
[Request for UC Ship Funds, July 1996-March 1998]  
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[Science Research Park Planning Committee, December 1990]  
[UC Ship Funds Committee, July 1989-May 1990]  
[The Cody Award, May 1988-April 1989]  
[Cody Award Candidates, August-September 1988]  
[Cody Award Candidates, September 1988]  
[Cody Award Candidates, September-October 1988]  
[Sexual Harassment Data Sheet, August 1987]  
[Academic Committees, November 1983-April 1988]  
[Graduate Student Photos, 1967-1989]  
[Students, October 1965-August 1987]  
[Student Paper/Presentations, May 1998-2000]  
[Student Papers, February 1996-September 1999]  
[Student References, February-September 1997]  
[Michele Lyons, Master’s Thesis, June 1994-November 1995]  
[Hae Jin Jeong, Ph. D. Progression, October 1989-December 1995]  
[Gregory Hamman, Ph. D. Progression, March-April 1988]  
[Guillermo Gutierrez de Velazco, Thesis, September/October 1992]  
[Miscellaneous Administration, May 1988-June 1990]  
[Reports, April-October 1988]  
[Miscellaneous Administration, November 1986-May 1988]  
[Miscellaneous Administration, June 1986-April 1987]  
[Miscellaneous Administration, n.d.-December 1985]  
[Miscellaneous Administration, January-July 1986]  
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[Papers/Slides, n.d.-July 1991]  
[Correspondence, n.d.-November 1987]  
[Wendy Enright Storms, Ph. D. Thesis, September 1998]  
[Scott M. Rumsey, Ph. D. Thesis, August 1996-July 1999]  
Tarsicio Antezana, October 1973-October 1993  
[Arthur Barnett, n.d.-January 1974]  
[William Bartram, March 1979-September 1982]  
[William Bartram, December 1973-1978]  
[William Bartram, 1978-1980]  
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[David Checkley, n.d.-January 1990]  
[Alessandri Conversi, n.d.-July 1992]  
[F. Kim Devonald, January 1978-March 1983]  
[Giulietta Fargion, n.d.-June 1984]  
[Giulietta Fargion, July-December 1984]  
[Giulietta Fargion, 1985-1992]  
[Gopalakrishan Kakkala, n.d.-February 1976]  
[Hillel Gordin, n.d.-March 1982]  
[John F. Heinbokel, n.d.-February 1980]  
[Jed Hirota, n.d.-January 1984]  
[Sarah Horrigan, n.d.-May 1982]  
[Dale Kiefer, October 1970-June 1972]  
[J. Anthony Koslow, n.d.-May 1977]  
[J. Anthony Koslow, March 1978-January 1993]  
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[Cleridy Lennert, August 1996-May 1999]  
[Victor Marin, n.d.-July 1986]  
[James McCarthy, n.d.-October 1979]  
[Mary Jane Perry, February 1972-July 1975]  
[Contracts and Grants, n.d.]  
[Contracts and Grants, February 1977-June 1982]  
[Peter Sertic, October 1970-May 1972]  
[Mary Silver, January 1971-March 1982]  
[Jeffrey L. Star, February 1978-November 1982]  
[Cynthia Tynan, n.d.-January 1994]  
[Shin-ichi Uye, n.d.-December 1988]  
[Leslie Vakassian, n.d.-March 1987]  
[Leslie Vakassian, March 1984-1987]  
My Former Students, [April 1968-January 1983]  
[Mark Huntley, September 1978-February 1980]  
[Mark Huntley, March-September 1980]  
[Mark Huntley, October 1980-January 1988]  
[Makoto Omori, June 1975-November 1988]  
[Felipe Fernandez, n.d.-March 1981]  
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[Jamie Rodriguez, n.d.-January 1989]  
[Jamie Rodriguez, “Oceanografia del mar Mediterraneo,” 1982]  
[US-Spain, November 1982-July 1988]  
[Jesse Banno, August 1982-December 1985]  
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[Landry-Koslow, NSF, February 1970-December 1976]  
[Landry-Koslow, NSF, February 1977-June 1984]  
[Checkley, NSF, August 1975-March 1977]  
[Hake, 1981 vs. 1984, Proposal, 1996]  
[Oceanography from Space, June 1984]  
[Jeffrey Napp, September 1990-March 1998]  
[Ocean Resource Enhancement and Hatchery Advisory Panel, n.d.]  
[Ocean Resource Enhancement and Hatchery Advisory Panel,  
July 1989-August 1992]  
[Napp Proposal, October 1981-July 1983]  
[Napp Proposal, August 1983-December 1984]  
[Napp Proposal, January 1985-December 1986]  
[Napp Proposal, January 1987-December 1993]  
[Central Gyre 15 N, July 1983-October 1985]  
Unstructured Food Web, [n.d.]  
Communications Satellite, [March-April 1990]  
[Mullin and Conversi, Hake and Euphausiids, n.d.]  
[Mullin and Conversi, Hake and Euphausiids, January 1974-1990]  
[Mullin and Conversi, Hake and Euphausiids, figures, n.d.]  
Sea Grant, Lipofuscin/Halibut, [n.d.-November 1984]  
Mullin and Brooks, Proposal, [n.d.-November 1984]  
Mullin and Brooks, [January 1985-July 1986]  
NSF-Halibut Lipofuscin, [n.d.-December 1985]  
NSF-Halibut Lipofuscin, [January 1986-December 1988]  
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Large Enclosures Symposium, [n.d.-1985]  
Marine Science Communications, [January 1977-May 1982]  
Chile, [n.d.]  
Chile, [September 1983-July 1986]  
India, [n.d.-June 1981]  
Israel, [n.d.-March 1985]  
Manuscript Reviews, [n.d.-April 2000]  
Proposal Reviews, [n.d.-May 1999]  
Evaluations of Colleagues, [n.d.-November 1989]  
Evaluations of Colleagues, [March 1990-December 1997]  
Sandia, [October 1978-May 1985]  
Journal of Plankton Research, [n.d.-April 1996]  
Jet Propulsion Laboratory-LIDAR, [February 1981-June 1982]  
KIS Transects, [n.d.-April 1988]  
Island Moss Stuff, [n.d.-May 1977]  
Island Study, [n.d.-February 1976]  
SCBS 8 Island Study, [n.d.-October 1976]  
SCBS 10 Tanner Bank San Nicholas Island Survey  
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[“Vertical Structure of Nearshore Plankton off Southern California: A  
Storm and a Larval Fish Food Web,” n.d.]  
[“Vertical Structure of Nearshore Plankton off Southern California: A  
Storm and a Larval Fish Food Web,” n.d.-April 1985]  
Larval Fish Conference, [May 1984-June 1986]  
Stuff for “Webs and Scales,” [n.d.-January 5, 1990]  
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Stuff for “Webs and Scales,” [July 1991-January 1993]  
CalCOFI Department, [n.d.-August 1998]  
[Global Challenge Biology, “Interannual and Interdecadal Variation  
in California Current Zooplankton: Calanus in the Late 1950’s and  
early 1990’s,” n.d.-January 1997]  
Journal of Plankton Research, “Nauplii of the Copepod, Calanus  
pacificus, off Southern California in the El Nino Winter-Spring of  
1992 and Implications for Larval Fish,” [August-November 1994]  
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“Production of Zooplankton in the Southern California Sector of the  
California Current: Implications of a Productivity/Biomass  
Algorithm,” [n.d.-March 1991]  
Rhincalanus vs. Calanus, [n.d.]  
“The California El Nino of 1992 and the Fall of Calanus,” [n.d.-  
July 1995]  
“Winter-Spring Californian El Nino and Calanus: 1992-1993 and  
1958-1959,” [n.d.-December 1995]  
1995 Cal-COFI Poster, “Demography of Calanus off Southern  
California: What do Chlorophyll and Macrozooplanktonic Biomasses  
Tell Us?” [August 1995]  
[California Cooperative Oceanic Fisheries Investigations,  
Symposium, October 1989] [November 25, 1986-June 12, 1989]  
(1 of 3)  
[California Cooperative Oceanic Fisheries Investigations,  
Symposium, October 1989] [June 13-October 10, 1989] (2 of 3)  
[California Cooperative Oceanic Fisheries Investigations,  
Symposium, October 1989] [October 11, 1989-March 27, 1990]  
(3 of 3)  
[CalCOFI (California Cooperative Oceanic Fisheries Investigations)  
International Conference, October 1989]  
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40th Followup [CalCOFI] [June 23, 1989-March 11, 1991]  
[MLRG (Marine Life Research Group) Meetings] [January 8-  
September 26, 1988] (1 of 2)  
[MLRG (Marine Life Research Group) Meetings] [October 4, 1988-  
September 19, 2000] (2 of 2)  
Recruitment-MLRG Committee [Marine Life Research Group]  
[August 21, 1987-October 31, 1990]  
I.M.R. [Institute of Marine Resources] [August 19, 1988-  
January 10, 1990]  
Inventory—1971-1972 [June 30, 1972-July 18, 1973]  
Inventory 1972-1973 [June 30, 1973-April 2, 1974]  
Inventory 1972-73: Equipment under $200.00 dropped from Invent.  
6-30-73  
[Annual Reports, June 30, 1974]  
[Correspondence between Dr. Edward A. Frieman and Prof. Peter  
Moiseev on conditions of fisheries, 1993]  
[Projects, 1990-1996]  
[Report on the Graduate Program Review Visiting Committee for the  
Scripps Department of the University of California, San Diego,  
April 15, 1993]  
[Boat/Vessel Registration and Insurance, January 2, 1975 and  
June 6, 1975]  
Isaacs [1992, Book signing for John Isaacs and His Oceans]  
Fleminger Memorial [April 19, 1988-September 25, 1991]  
“Production of Eggs by the Copepod Calanus pacificus in the  
Southern California Sector of the California Current,” [June 1990-  
November 1991]  
“Production of Eggs by the Copepod Calanus pacificus in the  
Southern California Sector of the California Current,” [figures, n.d.]  
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Photographs  
Slides  
Bongo Net Figure, [n.d.]  
Rough Draft Graphs, [n.d.]  
Procalanus Graphs, [n.d.]  
Miscellaneous Negatives, [n.d.]  
Miscellaneous Negative, [n.d.]  
Personal Academic [October 1976-September 1995]  
Personal Correspondence, [n.d.-December 1989]  
Personal Correspondence, [January 1990-November 1992]  
Personal Correspondence, [January 1993-June 1996]  
Public Advisory Group, [n.d.-September 2000]  
California Pacific Coast Summit, [May-August 2000]  
[Hudson River Fund: Call for Proposals, 2001]  
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[“Final Functional Equivalent Document Amendment of the Water  
Quality Control Plan for Ocean Waters of California,” Draft]  
Data and Plots, 9401, 9403  
Multiship Cruise, Cromwell, March 1976  
Multiship Cruise, Jordon, 1976  
Labidocera-SCBS  
15 N Sampling  
Gianna-SCBS II  
Growth Efficiency Experiments  
Indopac 16, 1977  
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Cladocerans, Red Tide Study, 1967  
Deep Tank II Experiments  
Metrida and Grazing  
Experiments with Copepods  
Deep Tank Experiments, March 1970  
Tortanus Predation  
Effect of Concentration and Type of Food on Growth of Calanus  
helgolandicus  
Mullin and Conversi  
Field Data, SCBS and CC 690X  
Ship Match Data  
Indopac-Nearshore Day, October 1987  
Indopac-Nearshore Day (1 of 2)  
Indopac-Nearshore Day (2 of 2)  
Prometheus Phytoplankton  
Prometheus Phytoplankton  
Prometheus I, March and April 1980  
Prometheus Data Analysis, Mullin/Brooks (1 of 2)  
Prometheus Data Analysis, Mullin/Brooks (2 of 2)  
KIS-1  
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KIS-2  
KIS-3  
KIS-3, Cluster Analysis, Zooplankton, February 1984  
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KIS-1 and KIS-2 Cruises, Data Analysis  
KIS 1-3, February 9-10, 1983, Longshore and Offshore Transects,  
Mullin/Brooks  
KIS 1-3, February 9-10, 1983, Longshore and Offshore Transects,  
Mullin/Brooks  
Prometheus, Zooplankton Counts, 1  
Prometheus, Zooplankton Counts, 2  
Prometheus, Zooplankton Counts, 3  
Prometheus, Zooplankton Counts, 4  
Indopac 16 Chlorophyll Particle Counts and Deck Data  
Indopac 16 Chlorophyll Particle Counts and Deck Data  
Indopac 16 Chlorophyll Particle Counts and Deck Data  
Prometheus Gut Fluorescence  
Prometheus Gut Fluorescence  
Field Notes on Bongo and Crosstie Net Tows, Red Tide Program  
T-441, 1967  
Cruise Data, Catol, South Tow 13, Tasaday 1 and 2, Climax, R/V  
Alpha Helix  
Calanus tennicornis and C. lightio  
Calanus robustier and C. gracilis  
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Copepod Egg Laying, Summer 1988  
Laboratory Notebook  
El Nino Fecundity Studies, September 1987  
Nutrient Analyses, 14C Dramamine II, April-May 1974  
Lipofuscin, DNA, RNA, 1985-1987  
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Larval Fish-Biochemistry, March 1985  
Field Collections and Zooplanktonic Culture Work  
“Winter-Spring El Nino Conditions and Calanus: Was 1993 like  
1992?”  
Negatives  
Anchovy Eggs and Larvae, [n.d.-May 1997]  
“The Demography of Calanus pacificus during Winter-Spring  
Californian El Nino Conditions, and Implications for Anchovy: Was  
1993 like 1992?”  
“Naupliar Survival of the Copepod Calanus pacificus off Southern  
California in the El Nino Winter-Spring of 1992, Relative to 1989,”  
[June-August 1994]  
Distribution and Reproduction of the Planktonic Copepod Calanus  
pacificus of Southern California During the Winter-Spring of 1992  
Relative to 1989-1991,” [Figures and Graphs for CalCOFI Poster,  
n.d.-1996]  
El Nino, [n.d.]  
SCB Stations for Anchovy Eggs, [Figures for “Fisheries  
Oceanography” July 1993]  
[Photographs, n.d.]  
“Nearshore Surface-Dwelling Zooplanktonic Assemblages off  
Southern California During the Anomalous Winters of 1983 and  
1984,” September 1987  
Temperature, Multiship Cruises, Dissimilarity vs. Distance, Total  
Chlorophyll  
[Data, Graphs (Folder 1 of 3)]  
[Data, Graphs (Folder 2 of 3)]  
[Data, Graphs (Folder 3 of 3)]  
[Data, Graphs with Negatives]  
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[Data, KIS I-KIS III]  
Data and Plots, 9401, 9403, Chlor-Size Frac., [n.d.]  
Ingestion Curves, [n.d.] (Folder 1 of 2)  
Ingestion Curves, [n.d.] (Folder 2 of 2)  
Reading Cards, A-Z  
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Reading Cards, A-Z  
Reading Cards, Unlabeled A-Z  
Reading Cards, Unlabeled A-Z  
Reading Cards, Unlabeled, A-Z, Zooplankton  
Reading Cards, Nekton-incl. Culture  
“Phytoplankton, bacteria, nutrients, Diss. & Partic. organic matter”  
Reading Cards  
“Phytoplankton, bacteria, nutrients, detritus, DOM, N-Z” Reading  
Cards