In this episode we are joined by Dr. Stuart
Sandin. Stuart is the Oliver Chair in Marine Biodiversity and
Conservation at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego.
He is a professor in the Marine Biology Research Division, and he
serves as director of the Center for Marine
Biodiversity and Conservation. Sandin has coordinated multiple ship- and
land-based expeditions to the remote islands of the central and
south Pacific Ocean, with much work conducted in the Line Islands
archipelago. He has been using this island gradient and others to
study the individual and interacting roles that local human
activities and oceanographic context play in the fisheries dynamics
and general functioning of coral reef ecosystems. The work in the
Pacific has led to the development of the 100 Island Challenge
research campaign.
In
this episode, Stuart and I discuss what Caribbean reefs used to
look like and why they've changed. Further, we explore how
Stuarts Lab is using structure from motion technology to map out
reefs systems over time. We broach the topics of self organization,
resilience, evolutionary succession, and technology driven
ecological research.
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