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July 14, 2011. Stephen Palumbi, COS Management Committee member and Director of Hopkins Marine Station, speaks about the amazing animals that can be found in our oceans.
The thin surface of the sea is a sharp curtain between the marine and terrestial worlds. And below this curtain lie thousands of amazing species that live in some of the more stressful places on earth. Some need to produce two million offspring a year in order to have any that survive. Others live at incredible pressures or temperatures. Some live their whole lives in a day, others can live for 10,000 years. This talk presents the panoply of marine habitats and the species that have uniquely been able to live in them. It is arranged around scientific knowledge but presented in narrative story form that concentrates on the conflicsts and tradeoffs that all life grapples with.
