Titled Ocean Warriors, this remarkable image of a coccolithophore is one of the 12 finalists in the 2024 Beaker Street Science Photography Prize and was selected because it shows the scientific value of specialized camera equipment or photographic processes.
The image was taken by Luke Brokensha, who is a research fellow and plankton ecologist with the Institute For Marine And Antarctic Studies at the University Of Tasmania in Hobart. It was taken using a Scanning Electron Microscope, from a sample collected by the Southern Ocean Continuous Plankton Recorder program (SO-CPR).
