Pictures in this gallery represents selected images of Dr. Spangenberg's work on morphological changes in jelly fish (Aurelia) in various environment. Dr. Spangenberg has an extensive research project with NASA for a study of the effects of weightlessness on the development of jellyfish larvae (ephyrae), including their graviceptors, and their swimming/pulsing behavior. Her Jellyfish-in-Space experiments were flown on NASA shuttle flights during the SLS-1 and IML-2 missions.
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