EP 38 - Sea Life on Shipwrecks with Kirstin Meyer-Kaiser Below The Tide
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- Science
This week Kirstin Meyer-Kaiser, a benthic ecologist at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, is sitting down to chat about the sea life that uses shipwrecks as their home! Learn about how some of the most isolated shipwrecks off the coast of New England have been colonized by sessile (non-mobile). We dive into the Billy Mitchell fleet, and how these historic war ships ended up on the ocean floor in Stellwagen Bank! Kirstin's biggest curiosities lie in island communities. Island communities ar...
This week Kirstin Meyer-Kaiser, a benthic ecologist at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, is sitting down to chat about the sea life that uses shipwrecks as their home! Learn about how some of the most isolated shipwrecks off the coast of New England have been colonized by sessile (non-mobile). We dive into the Billy Mitchell fleet, and how these historic war ships ended up on the ocean floor in Stellwagen Bank! Kirstin's biggest curiosities lie in island communities. Island communities ar...
20 min