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Australia’s coastal waters harbour more than 8,000 ship wrecks. But only a quarter of those have been found. Our guest is a maritime archaeologist and will take us on a dive into her watery world. How is maritime archaeology different from the land-based version? How do you preserve a shipwreck and how do you handle things if you find human remains at the site?

Our hosts, Griff, Inna and Cat are chatting with Danielle Wilkinson, a senior maritime archaeologist from Heritage Victoria.



Interested to learn more? Check out these links:

The Australasian Institute for Maritime Archaeology: Home | Australasian Institute for Maritime Archaeology (aima-underwater.org.au)
Flinders University Maritime Archaeology Program 20 years of Maritime Archaeology - Flinders University
Maritime Archaeology Association of Victoria MAAV ; Maritime Archaeology Association of Victoria, Inc. (vicnet.net.au)
Maritime Archaeological Association of Western Australia MAAWA
Heritage Victoria’s Shipwreck Discovery Program Shipwreck Discovery Program (heritage.vic.gov.au)

Climate change has already caused some animal species to migrate and to seek new and more suitable habitat. But how do plants deal with climate change? They can’t just walk away and find a new place to live, can they?

It turned out they can! Our guest is telling us all about migrations of plants and other mechanisms they use to cope with the changing climate.

Boiling Point host Griff, co-hosts, Liz and Cat chat with Inna Osmolovsky. Inna is a PhD student at UNSW Sydney and studies the smart ways of how plants are reacting to the warming climate.

One of the most iconic animals in Australia is the kangaroo. It’s on the Australian coat of arms and is one of the first animals most people think of when they think of Australia. Today we are going to take a closer look at one of the less-studied aspects of the kangaroos. Surprisingly, social aspects of kangaroo behaviour have only been mildly explored. But their social behaviour is affected by multiple factors

Boiling Point host in training, Liz, and regular host, Cat are chatting with Nora Campbell. Nora is a PhD student at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, and she is making her radio debut. Nora studies kangaroos and their social behaviour.

Most people would have heard of Darwin finches, the birds that gave Darwin the idea for the theory of evolution. In this episode, we are taking a closer look at a group of species, that may look less spectacular. But they are evolution in the making. Blennies are fish that have started making their way back to land. Our guest is telling us why the blennies would go through such a trouble.



Boiling Point host Cat and trainee Hannah Dawson are chatting with Elizabeth Surovic. Liz is a PhD student at the University of New South Wales in Sydney and studies blennies and evolution in the making.

It’s green and it seems to be highly abundant. But this impression is treacherous. Sea grass is in decline worldwide. Not a big deal you might think but the truth is, it’s a huge problem, as seagrasses are essential ecosystem builders that numerous marine creatures depend on.

Cat chats with UNSW Honours student Griff Brindley who studies seagrass and explores how seagrass can successfully be restored.





 

Boiling Point host Cat chats with Charlotte Read. Charlotte has a degree in conservation and currently teaches children about wildlife and conservation at a zoo in Melbourne. Her interests in conservation are the human wildlife conflict, and in particular illegal wildlife trade. Since she is based in Melbourne, Cat talks to her to her via zoom about the sixth major extinction event and illegal wildlife trafficking.



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Want to learn more about the sixth major extinction event and illegal wildlife trafficking? Check out these links:
WWF Australia (https://www.wwf.org.au/what-we-do/species/illegal-wildlife-trade-and-poaching#gs.nkrmqa)

TRAFFIC (https://www.traffic.org/)

Interpol (https://www.interpol.int/Crimes/Environmental-crime/Wildlife-crime)

CITES (Convention of International Trade in Endangered Species) (https://cites.org/eng/prog/iccwc)

Wildlife Justice Commission (https://wildlifejustice.org/)