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Subject 1: (Environmental Recording). Subtitle: NOAA Weather Forecast. Timecode In: 00:00:53. Timecode out: 00:09:34. Subject 2: (Interview). Subtitle: Sarah Mitchell. Timecode In: 00:10:40. Timecode out: 00:55:58. Notes: Gray's Reef National Marine Sanctuary. Equipment Notes: Stereo=1; Decoded MS stereo. NPR/NGS RADIO EXPEDITIONS Gray's Reef log Sarah Mitchell and the sea turtles DAT 3 G 00:54-9:14 ambi -radio talk reo weather, with some boat rocking in bg -about hurricane season.....safety procedures, sounds like a recording...NOAA weather station.... [waiting on gray's reef] **8:28 -at gray's reef . .... MS, sennheisers with the rapt? SARAH MITCHELL INTERVIEW 10:40 SM -i am sarah mitchell i am the education and outreach coordinator for gray's reef national marine sanctuary....and 1 am doing some of the work that a marine biologist would do CJ -and you spend a lot of time studying and tagging the animals that live on the reef SM -we do that as often as possible -working in the ocean and doing biological research -are often quite difficult. the conditions are very different than working on land. biologists already face many adverse conditions, but when you add weather and boats and the marine environment then your opportunities are reduced in many cases 11:24 cj -tell me what is unusual about gr in terms of the sea life that is there -how does it differ from other places on the coast, other marine sanctuaries? 11:36 sm -gr has a particularly diverse group of invertebrates on the reef and one of the reasons for that is that it is a hard bottom area ... and that provides a point of attachment for many of the marine inverts. for miles of water around this area there are scattering of hard bottom areas and each of them really function as an oasis bc it provides a point of attachment. so you have got large areas that have been described as a watery desert and once you come to these hard bottom areas you have got a tremendous diversity of life. and once you have that point of attachment for sponges, marine algae, tunikits and briazoin, then you are able to see the entire spectrum of the food chain all the way up to the very large organisms like sharks and divers. so you also attract humans to the area. cj -so hard bottom is what sets it up biologically. it is also something called a ledge community? 12:42 sm -it is a ledge community. and one of the very interesting things about diving and observing the life on gr is there are w/in those hard areas diff habitat types. you've got area where sponges and green algae would choose to colonize on top of the reef. you've got very vertical surfaces when the edge of the reef drops down to a sandy floor and there are areas underneath the reef where you provide ledges where you frequently see morae eels or fish like grouper that will dart out and grab their prey and go back into hiding 13:15 CJ -there is a whole array of unusual or you could say bizarre animals here things i have never heard of, people have never heard of -sea pork -what is sea pork? sm -sea pork is a tunicate. many of the marine inverts that we are looking at at gr, sea pork is actually more closely related to humans bc of a proto-neurochord that a sea pork has, and most people are familiar w/sea pork in this area and it actually got its name bc it looks like a piece of pork fat. pinkish in color, it has a little translucence to it and it comes in big blobs and rolls up on the beaches and often beach combers find it and wonder what it is. cj -they find it just rolled up like a pork rind? sm -that's right, about the size of your fist MORE ABOUT THE SEA PORK .....and NOTACORDS, and URCHIN SPECIES .... SM reading the list of species: (soft waves hitting side of boat) 15:31 sm: sea pork, tunicate, giant hermit crab, arrow crab, spiny lobster, acorn barnacle... (Notes truncated)
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- 18 May 2005 - Ben Brotman
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- 18 May 2005 - Ben Brotman
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- 18 May 2005 - Ben Brotman