Dolphins Swim in Luminescent Tide

Jul 16, 2021 6:12 AM

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Filmed by a fisherman at Newport Beach, California.

Dolphins triggering algae to luminesce by their wake.

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I do that too, if I were them

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the physicist in me: if luminescence/activation scales monotonously w shear stress then this is an excellent way to quantify the flow field

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of course, it needs correction for activation and relaxation if those time scales are comparable or larger than that of the flow.

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The luminescence is a response from the minute algae organisms to being perturbed. It is a momentary response at the individual level …

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and has a refractory period of around 12 hours for the algae organism to recharge on its expended luciferin.

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