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Wild Sun Catchers
An audio visual experiment with algae world-making, about a kelp forest mermaid living by and within the Channel Islands in Southern California.
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Sea Ice in the Arctic: a secret world
The Arctic Ocean is the most extreme ocean in regard to the seasonality of light and its year-round existing ice cover. Arctic seas hold a multitude of unique life forms highly adapted in their life history, ecology and physiology to the extreme and seasonal conditions of this environment.
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Present | Past | Future?
With warm temperatures rising, and the poles melting, humankind could be forced to evolve and adapt to marine life. In this case, the future shows two different scenarios.
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Visions of Algae
Images reveal the complex life of algae in the air, on the land, and in the water. Viewed from the portal of microscopes, cameras, telescopes, and satellites Visions of Algae range in size from microscopic micromonas species to giant kelps that reach 60 meters (200 feet) in length to algal blooms seen from space.
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100 Years of Seaweed & Kelp
Sourced from the Algae Collection at University of California Santa Barbara with support from UCSC Arts Research Institute and the OpenLab Collaborative Research Center.
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Cultivating Collaboration
Nutrient runoff from industrial-scale agriculture combined with rapidly changing climate patterns has increased the severity and devastation from algae blooms in the Gulf of Mexico.
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Exploration Center
Explore algae through digital microscopes, hand held magnifying glasses and our lightboard of algal forms. Browse our library of algae themed books or spend some time playing PhytoHeroes or Back to Anemone, games developed by members of the Algae Society.
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Pacific Coast Seaweed in Wrack
Collected from beach wrack, cleaned, dried, pressed, dipped, & pinned. “Wrack” is the term for seaweed, surfgrass, driftwood, and other organic materials produced by coastal ecosystems that wash ashore on the beach.
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Floating Island Ecosystem
The retention pond on the property of the Cameron museum enables us to have a direct collaboration with a local aquatic ecosystem, capturing microscopy imagery of its living systems while translating data and sound from the island’s built in water quality sensor bank and underwater hydrophone & camera.
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Cameron Pond Microscopy
Starting in August of 2021 and extending throughout the run of the show, Dr. Catherina Alves DeSouza, director of the Algal Resources Collection at UNCW has collaborated with Algae Society Artist Gene A. Felice II, taking water samples from the Cameron Art Museum retention pond as well as two other nearby ponds for comparison.
