New applications for the FlowCam are constantly developed, from microplastics research and aquaculture to invasive, to ballast water and paleolimnology
The FlowCam is an imaging flow cytometer that was developed at Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences in 1997 by Dr. Chris Sieracki, the current Chairman and primary inventor of Fluid Imaging Technologies, as a faster, more informative method of phytoplankton enumeration and analysis than the existing technologies at the time. Since its development, the FlowCam has found numerous applications in aquatic research and industry.
