Chapter 1: A Teaspoon of Seawater: A Tiny Ecosystem.- Chapter 2: The Marine Biological Pump.- Chapter 3: The Four Seasons of Plankton.- Chapter 4: The Rhythms of Plankton.- Chapter 5: Plankton, Mussels with French Fries, and Diarrhea.- Chapter 6: Are there carnivorous plants in the sea?.- Chapter 7: The Most Formidable Predators of the Ocean: The Protists.- Chapter 8: Copepods: Good Things Come in Small Packages.

- Chapter 9: Water Fleas, Matriarchy, and a Parasite Named Like a German Sausage.- Chapter 10: Gelatinous Plankton: Itchy Jellyfish, Appendicularians with Luxury Chalets, Filter Barrels, and other Extraordinary Creatures.- Chapter 11: Holoplankton and Meroplankton: two Peculiar Terms for Common Creatures.- Chapter 12: Feeding Mechanisms in Zooplankton.- Chapter 13: Evading Predators: The Clever Tactics of Plankton Survival.- Chapter 14: Bioluminescent Plankton.- Chapter 15: Global Warming and Plankton.- Chapter 16: Plankton Adaptations to Extreme Environments.

- Chapter 17: The Fragility of Plankton.- Chapter 18: From Land and Sea.- Chapter 19: Plastic: you Are Plankton and to Plankton you Shall Return.- Chapter 20: Why are there no insects in the sea?.- Chapter 21: Harnessing the Power of Plankton: A Revolutionary Approach to Industry.- Chapter 22: Sampling plankton.- Chapter 23: Myths and Legends of Modern Research: Experimenting with Zooplankton.- Chapter 24: A Brief History of Plankton Discovery.