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Today\'s episode features Dr Michelle Taylor! She\'s at the University of Essex in England and she works with deep sea environments, like deep sea corals! Deep sea is considered to be roughly 200m deep and beyond, which is also roughly the edge of the continental shelf. She started in coral reef ecology, but (as she describes it) she has "one warm foot and one cold foot" and now studies both tropical and deep sea, aka not tropical, corals!

She was on the Weddell Sea Expedition in 2019, which was a multi prong expedition that was studying the ice shelves in the Weddell Sea, and also using underwater autonomous vehicles to search for The Endurance, which was the ship Ernest Shackleton and his expedition team lost in the sea ice in 1915. And that\'s all I\'m going to say about that! Enjoy!

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You can find Rachel Villani on Twitter @flyingcypress and Storytellers of STEMM on Facebook.

You can find Michelle Taylor on Twitter @Dr_MTaylor and her website: https://taylorlab.science/.

Weddell Sea Expedition in 2019: https://weddellseaexpedition.org/

Video about Michelle\'s work: https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=2328347120821410

Book List from this episode: The book about Ernest Shackleton & the Antarctica expedition in 1915 is Endurance by Alfred Lansing.

LUMCON is the marine center in Cocodrie, Louisiana we talk about early on: https://lumcon.edu/ and on Twitter @LUMCONscience/

Recorded on 20 October 2020.