Shark and Awe: The Extreme Life of the Sea

The thin surface of the sea is a sharp curtain between the marine and terrestrial 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 will present the panoply of marine habitats and the species that have uniquely been able to live in them. It will be arranged around scientific knowledge but presented in narrative story form that concentrates on the conflicts and tradeoffs that all life grapples with.

Speaker: Stephen Palumbi