Ep36: The Living Ecological Community within Sargassum with Lindsay Martin & Amy Siuda

Lindsay Martin is an Ocean Policy Specialist at the National Science Foundation (NSF) who is passionate about combining research with education. She has quite literally sailed around the world and is working to make research more equitable and accessible.

Amy Siuda is an Associate Professor of Marine Science at Eckerd College in St. Petersburg, Florida and former Professor and Chief Scientist at Sea Education Association in Woods Hole, Massachusetts. She is a marine ecologist and biological oceanographer whose research interests span marine plankton ecology from organismal to population and community levels.

Lindsay and Amy just published a paper on the motile animals found on different types of pelagic Sargassum.

Listen to the episode to hear about:

• Introductions (3:08)
• What sargassum is to Amy and Lindsay (4:28)
• Animals in sargassum (7:50)
• Collection and analysis methods (13:42)
• Sample sizes (17:11)
• Sargassum morphotypes and the habitats they create (21:18)
• Herbivores and sargassum consumption (34:31)
• Changes in the tropical Atlantic and effects on the food web (38:14)
• Sargassum samples from different locations (44:44)
• Sea Education Association experiences (47:10)
• Debrief (51:50)

Episode Transcript

Learn more about Lindsay Martin:
֍ LinkedIn

֍ ResearchGate

Learn more about Amy Siuda:

֍ Faculty Page

֍ LinkedIn

֍ ResearchGate

֍ Sargassum Research

֍ Scientific Paper

֍ Sea Education Association

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