abstract:The Continuous Plankton Recorder (CPR) survey is one of the longest running marine biological monitoring programmes in the world. Started in 1931 by Sir Alister Hardy, the CPR has provided marine scientists with their only measure of plankton communities on a pan-oceanic scale.
Designed in 1931 by marinebiologist Alister Hardy, the ContinuousPlanktonRecorder is a biopunk-named, nondescript-looking steelbox containingtwo skeins of silkmesh.