And no one more so than christian sardet who cofounded the expedition known as tara oceans his positively stunning book plankton wonders of the drifting world features some of the most intriguing most beautiful organisms that he had the honor of observing at hundreds of sites in the worlds oceans its the catalog of a mission that has revealed just how diverse and gorgeous the lowly plankton can be and how indispensable they are to life on earth. And no one more so than christian sardet who cofounded the expedition known as tara oceans his positively stunning book plankton wonders of the drifting world features some of the most intriguing most beautiful organisms that he had the honor of observing at hundreds of sites in the worlds oceans its the catalog of a mission that has revealed just how diverse and gorgeous the lowly plankton can be and how indispensable they are to life on earth. Figure1 figure1 the oceania armata shown here is a close relative of the turritopsis dohrnii the only known animal that can transform from a medusa back into a polyp photo christian sardet plankton wonders of the drifting world christian sardet university of chicago press 2015 222 pp take two breaths begins oceanographer mark ohman. And no one more so than christian sardet who cofounded the expedition known as tara oceans his positively stunning book plankton wonders of the drifting world features some of the most intriguing most beautiful organisms that he had the honor of observing at hundreds of sites in the worlds oceans its the catalog of a mission that has revealed just how diverse and gorgeous the lowly plankton can be and how indispensable they are to life on earth