Project SeaCAMEL – Module 4 – Sponge Feeding

Sponge Feeding Video of a scientist sampling water from a chamber containing a sponge in Lake Baikal, Siberia. As the sponge continues to pump water through its aquiferous system, the concentration of small particles, the picoplankton, should drop. Surprisingly, Dr. …

Project SeaCAMEL – Module 2 – Background Info – Baikalsponge

Baikalsponge Video: An example of an active suspension feeder, a sponge (Baikalospongia bacillifera) from the world’s oldest, deepest, most voluminous lake, Lake Baikal, Russia. Note how the dye is pumped at high rate from the excurrent pores, the oscula. Later …