A picture is worth a thousand words. With this adage in mind, a number of imaging techniques have been extensively used at MPI Bremen to study biogeochemistry and microbial physiology at spatial scales ranging from single cells to whole communities. Examples include:

• oxygen imaging - using planar oxygen optodes
• hyper-spectral imaging - laboratory and in situ (including underwater)
• rapid confocal saturation imaging - using confocal laser microscope
• NanoSIMS imaging - using Cameca's NanoSIMS 50L