Ocean Discovery: Stories about what we discover at sea
The Story Collider
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4.4 • 824 Ratings
🗓️ 2 October 2020
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
This week we present two stories from people who had encounters with ocean animals.
Part 1: Stuck in the lab with buckets of jellyfish, Shreya Yadav must rethink why she's studying what she's studying in the first place.
Part 2: Underwater photographer Keith Ellenbogen comes face to face with an animal he wasn't expecting.
Shreya Yadav is a PhD candidate at the Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology, at the University of Hawaii. She studies how corals recover from major climatic disturbances. She is also interested in marine historical ecology and the socio-cultural aspects of fishing.
Keith Ellenbogen is a celebrated photographer working with conservation-based organizations to showcase the visual complexity of underwater environments. He is an Assistant Professor of Photography at SUNY/FIT; Visiting Artist at Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Sr. Fellow, International League of Conservation; Fellow, The Explorers Club; Affiliate Partner, Mission Blue - A Sylvia Earle Alliance; the recipient of Hollings Ocean Awareness Award and a TED Residency.
See Keith’s work at www.keithellenbogen.com
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| 0:00.0 | A science story, huh? |
| 0:04.0 | Is NYU scientists the... |
| 0:07.0 | It felt... |
| 0:08.0 | I was so... |
| 0:09.0 | And I just thought, well... |
| 0:10.0 | It was that golden moment. |
| 0:13.0 | Because science was on my side. |
| 0:16.0 | ...theid... Hello everybody. Welcome to the Story Collider, where we bring you true personal stories about science. |
| 0:31.1 | I'm your host, Aaron Barker, and this week we're presenting stories about ocean discoveries. |
| 0:36.9 | Our first story is from Shreya Yadav. |
| 0:39.3 | It is recorded in November 2019 at the Bye Bye Collective in Honolulu. |
| 0:44.3 | The show was presented with support from the Tiffany & Coe Foundation, and the theme that night was Oceans. |
| 1:06.8 | So here I am finally, on a small boat late at night on the Great Barrier Reef, holding a thousand-watt light underwater and watching box jellyfish swarm to the surface because of it. |
| 1:13.6 | Except the jerryfish are the last things on my mind right now, |
| 1:18.6 | because all I can really think about is the only other person on the boat with me, |
| 1:24.6 | Chris, who I've been crushing on silently for months now. |
| 1:31.3 | And here he is, standing right next to me, |
| 1:34.3 | helping me scoop jellyfish out of the water. |
| 1:37.3 | Chris. |
| 1:39.3 | Let me tell you about Chris, because I feel like you would be in love with him too, |
| 1:43.3 | if you were 21. |
| 1:46.0 | Australian from Tasmania, tall. Always, always in a tank top. Studies Karonex |
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