Protozoa in the Environment

Our resident investigator Maree Wright has been improving her skills at Photomicroscopy using a digital camera. We hope to have more images and movie clips added here soon...

Identifying Protozoa from environmental samples:

Protozoa are single celled animals. They come in many different shapes and sizes. Maree Wright has been looking at soil, pond water, anywhere she thinks there may be something interesting to discover.

Protozoa can keep you entertained for hours with their odd ways of moving around, clever means of catching food, and fascinating shapes. Maree has found some good websites so that amateur microbiologists of High School age can identify the protozoa they have isolated from soil or pond water: