Listen "Cabot Conversations: Ocean floor - An Alien Commons?"
Episode Synopsis
Cabot Institute for the Environment experts Dr Kate Hendry and Dr Laurence Publicover discuss "the Ocean Floor: An alien commons?" Geochemist Dr Kate Hendry and Dr Laurence Publicover, a senior lecturer in English, have been working closely together on ocean floor research. Listen to this fascinating conversation on how their two differing forms of research can come together to help understand more about our ocean floor and it's important relationship to the climate crisis. In this podcast, we gain their expertise on the subject and hear about their research journeys.Read their collaborative pieces here:The Invisibility of the Sea – Brigstow Institute (bristol.ac.uk)Unless we regain our historic awe of the deep ocean, it will be plundered (theconversation.com)Kate's current project links:Isotope CYcling in the LABrador Sea (wordpress.com)BIOPOLE – Biogeochemical processes and ecosystem function in changing polar systems and their global impactsLaurence's research:https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.1086/699622Shipboard Literary Cultures | SpringerLinkLaurence's up-and-coming play:https://www.re-versetheatre.com/hamlet-voyage.
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