This poem is inspired by research, which has found that sponges leave trails on the sea floor in the Arctic deep sea.

Spongy Trails

This poem is inspired by a recent study, which re-considers what is happening to plastic waste in marine and sedimentary environments.

Deep Sea Plastics

The topic for this double episode is, as ever, the deep sea. But this time we are talking about the deep sea… Innnnnn Spaaaaaaaace! It turns out there is deep sea outside of earth in our solar system in the ice-covered moons of the gas giants. How likely are they to contain deep-sea life completely independent from the life that originated on earth? Thom chats with astrobiologist Kevin Peter Hand, author of Alien Oceans: The search for life in the depths of space, and director of NASA’s Ocean Worlds Lab. What are the best candidates for alien life in our solar system? What could that life be like and why does our own deep ocean provide a perfect test bed?

It turns out that the early versions of the vehicles which may some day explore these ocean worlds are already in development. Thom chats with Casey Machado, Research Engineer at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution about the Orpheus AUV, the first generation of such vehicle and a new asset to the exploration of our own deep ocean.

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The Deep-Sea Podcast

PRESSURISED: 014 - Space pt 1: Deep sea planets with Kevin Hand and Casey Machado

Join Dr Alan Jamieson (world expert on the deepest parts of the ocean) and Dr Thomas Linley (deep-sea fish expert/advocate) and their guest for a monthly podcast that shows the deep sea as it really is, without removing any of the wonder.

PRESSURISED: 014 - Space pt 1: Deep sea planets with Kevin Hand and Casey Machado

The Deep-Sea Podcast

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