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What's hiding in our deep oceans? A whole bunch of beautiful and interesting animals it turns out. Today Dr Karen Osborne joins us to answer all our important questions on our deep oceans, what they're made up of, what it's like to study them and what it's like to live with a whale.
Expert guest:
Dr. Karen Osborn is an award-winning zoologist at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. She specialises in the fascinating world of animals that live in the deep ocean but above the sea floor. She grew up loving animals and chose marine biology after spending a year in Pohnpei, Micronesia. She was SCUBA diving every chance she got on the lush coral reefs that surround the tropical Pacific island. Seeing the huge variety of shapes and sizes of animals that make up the reef communities made her wonder how and why that much diversity of shape came about. How do all those different animals accomplish basically the same thing - survival and reproduction - with such different bodies and ways of living?
You can learn more about her and her work here.
Resources Dr Karen recommends:
https://ocean.si.edu/ecosystems/deep-sea/deep-sea
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFXww6CrLAHhyZQCDnJ2g2A
https://www.mbari.org/science/midwater-research/
Comedy guest:
Jono Duffy is an Australian born comedian who currently lives in Paris, France. He spent the last 5 years living in Iceland were he worked at Eurovision, won a bunch of awards and was pretty much a C-list celeb. Jono has his own podcasts as well, 'Not in Front of my Salad' and ‘Icetralia’. He’s probably done enough things to warrant a Wikipedia page but nobody who is a fan of his work loves him enough to make one. You can find links to all the great stuff he does including his comedy special, podcast, website, Twitter and Instagram here.