Instrument: Microscope-Optical

Dataset: 
Thalassiosira wessiflogii growth rate and TEP
Instrument: 
Microscope - Optical
Instrument Short Name:
Community Standard Description
(http://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/L05/current/LAB05/)
Instrument Description:

Instruments that generate enlarged images of samples using the phenomena of reflection and absorption of visible light. Includes conventional and inverted instruments. Also called a "light microscope".

PI supplied instrument name: Light microscope
Dataset-specific description

The volume of 100 diatoms from each replicate culture was determined by measuring cell length (pervalver length) and width (valver length) at 400x magnification using a light microscope (Axioplan 2, Carl Zeiss MicroImaging).