I love listening to podcasts about totally different fields I don’t know anything about.
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I love listening to podcasts about totally different fields I don’t know anything about. Just heard a marine parasite ecologist being interviewed about her research where she opens hundreds of cans of historically preserved fish to count the number of parasites they had, and compared to the same species today.
I wish I knew that marine parasite ecologist was a job option!
(This is on Ocean Science Radio!)
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She concluded that because the parasite population had increased for certain types of salmon, the state of salmon is actually much better than in the 70s (because these parasites need at least 3 hosts)
So that gives her hope
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@skinnylatte Sounds great! Subscribed!
(I still regret not becoming a marine biologist when I grew up, like I wanted to as a kid)
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Kristian Haapa-ah0)))replied to Adrianna Tan last edited by
@skinnylatte That must be Chelsea Wood, in the Fisheries dept at UW. I worked there for a decade and left maybe a year or so before she started. I was always a little bummed about that, since I've loved parasitology ever since I took an undergrad course in it.
And the Fish Collection she's pulling those older samples from is pretty impressive!
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Adrianna Tanreplied to Kristian Haapa-ah0))) last edited by
@eryops hehe, it’s someone who she supervised! What an incredible field