marineecology

Explore "marineecology" with insightful episodes like "Revealing Cryptofauna", "#020: Clamsplaining: Giant Clams - Dr. Dan Killam" and "#019: Coral Reefs Through Time - Dr. Stuart Sandin" from podcasts like ""NSF's Discovery Files", "Biosphere 2 Podcast" and "Biosphere 2 Podcast"" and more!

Episodes (3)

Revealing Cryptofauna

Cryptofauna are creatures that live hidden among microhabitats. Our guest is Paul Sikkel, a research professor at the University of Miami’s Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric and Earth Science who has discovered two species of Gnathiid isopods. We’ll hear about these creatures' life cycles, their role in the marine food web, and why Sikkel named them after musicians Bob Marley and Jimmy Buffett.

NSF's Discovery Files

enAugust 21, 2023

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#020: Clamsplaining: Giant Clams - Dr. Dan Killam

In this episode, we are joined by Dr. Dan Killam. Dan is a post- doctoral researcher in the Coral Reef Laboratory here at Biosphere 2. Dan's central research focus is the study of giant clams. His research involves growing giant clams to understand how they embed signatures in their shells that relate to the activity of symbiotic algae in the clams bodies. Prior to Biosphere 2, Dan was a Zuckerman Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Haifa in Israel, where he studied the effects of climate change on bittersweet clams found on the Israeli coast. Dan completed his PhD in Paleobiology at UC Santa Cruz where he studied the ecological and physiological history of bivalves.

In this episode, Dan takes us deep into world of Giant Clam research-- revealing a wide array of fascinating facts about these overshadowed bivalves found within Coral Reefs. Further, Dan tells us why the Biosphere 2 Ocean is a great place to study clams, he explains his past research studying Clams in the Red Sea, and he guides us through the life history and symbiosis of Giant Clams.

https://dantheclamman.blog/

enJuly 27, 2021

#019: Coral Reefs Through Time - Dr. Stuart Sandin

In this episode we are joined by Dr. Stuart Sandin. Stuart is the Oliver Chair in Marine Biodiversity and Conservation at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego. He is a professor in the Marine Biology Research Division, and he serves as director of the Center for Marine Biodiversity and Conservation. Sandin has coordinated multiple ship- and land-based expeditions to the remote islands of the central and south Pacific Ocean, with much work conducted in the Line Islands archipelago. He has been using this island gradient and others to study the individual and interacting roles that local human activities and oceanographic context play in the fisheries dynamics and general functioning of coral reef ecosystems. The work in the Pacific has led to the development of the 100 Island Challenge research campaign.

In this episode, Stuart and I discuss what Caribbean reefs used to look like and why they've changed. Further, we explore how Stuarts Lab is using structure from motion technology to map out reefs systems over time. We broach the topics of self organization, resilience, evolutionary succession, and technology driven ecological research.

Learn more about this project at 100IslandChallenge.org.

https://sandinlab.ucsd.edu/

Biosphere 2 Podcast

enMay 19, 2021

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