Haiku for Winogradsky Column
Curved, long,
Round, stout,
The neighbor cup is passed about.
– Dr. JeM YinJoy
The Microbiology
A Winogradsky column is a microbial “garden” or “city” that grants you a window through which to witness the birth and growth of a microcosm earth’s microbial community, contained in a clear glass jar (or other similar clear material like a plexi glass jar or a graduated cylinder). The column is named after a famous Russian microbiologist, Sergei Winogradsky (1856-1953) who studied studied the relationships between different types of microorganisms in mixed communities.
One way to prepare a Winogradsky column to collect some sediment from the bottom of a lake or river. This sediment contains within it, a community of millions of diverse microbes, that depend on one another for survival.
The Winogradsky column creates an artificial replicate of what goes on in the sediment, so that these diverse communities are stratified. These layers of different bacterial communities are separated by their access to oxygen and by access to nutrients which are depleted or abundant, depending on where they are locate in the column’s strata. They also are separated by the type of pH that forms during the metabolic activities of the various communities that develop in the column.
Description - Winogradsky Column - Part 2 in Video Series.
By JeM YinJoy
Music in this Video provided by Jaya Lakshmi. The song, Om Purnam, is from her album "Radiance."
Om Purnam means
”THAT is infinite, THIS is infinite; From That, This comes. THIS added or removed from THAT, the Infinite remains as Infinite. Om, peace, peace, peace.”
or ”You are the fullness. There is fullness, here is fullness. From the fullness, the fullness is born. Remove the fullness from the fullness and the fullness alone remains.”
The meaning of this ancient Vedic mantra is that the whole creation constitutes one whole unit. Each and every particle, non-living or living represents the same whole unit. From http://www.awakeningstate.com/spiritual-awakening/om-purnamadah-purnamidam-mantra/