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Subject 1: (Environmental Recording). Subtitle: Ocean surf ambi. Timecode In: 00:00:37. Timecode out: 00:09:38. Subject 2: (Interview). Subtitle: Sylvia Earle. Timecode In: 00:09:38. Timecode out: 01:00:53. Notes: Coral reefs. Habitat: Marine, Ocean. Equipment Notes: Stereo=1; Decoded MS stereo. NPR/NGS Radio Expeditions Bahamas/Key Largo DAT log #5 5/25-29/95 LN = Lynn Neary SE = Sylvia Earle Lee Stocking Is DAT #1 Beach Interviews-Silvia Earle -Bahamas 0:00 (slates as "DAT six of the Gamma series") 0:40 Amb at beach interview site....pickup at 1:40... -4-:()c) 4:00 ends amb phase-inverted... start phase correct amb...lynn swims... 10:40 (interview begins) In: what is a coral reef? se: rain forest of the sea...rich in plants and animals...neither plants nor animals? (retake here) ... classified incorrectly as plants for years... {scientific detail here) ...small organisms that live together...microscopic plants... lots of coral that are not reef-building...many variations on a theme ... 13:45 In: so some coral live isolated? se: yes different types...many that live on reefs...in some cases it looks like pink cement poured, that's plant material ... 15:50: how rain forests and reefs alike? se: alike and different...complex ecosystems...like a thriving city, interactions of components, like LA, NY, or Paris, how does this (complex system) work? what drives this system? initial energy comes from sunlight. in rain forests, the middlemen are insects at top of (food chain) ...time element long: tens of thousands of millennia to form processes. . . 18:20 In: i'm fascinated by fact that you find something new each time you go into the water. SE: shouldn't be surprised, only been at this half a century, and the systems have been building for longer (half a century is nothing) ... ***we think of it so casually, oh, here's a reef, oh here's a rain forest, let's extract from it what we see as important. we can think of nothing more important to do with a rain forest than lumber, on coral reefs we extract only fish, without thinking about the fish.. 20:25 (greg interrupts for jet... stops tape. reposition of mic.) 21:15 In: (re-asking question) amazed by how excited you get, something new each time. se: ***discovered in my years the magnitude of our ignorance, humankind recent...we do know that life occurs at all levels of the sea,~ average depth is 2 miles, explored less than one tenth of one percent of the deep ocean. we come to Lee Stocking and discover small creatures on the beach among the grains of sand. true of rain forests as well. new discoveries await every turn. 23:50 In: parallels between coral reefs and rain forests? se: lots of insects in rain forests, in oceans, explosion of species... 25:30 In: examples? se: (plane interrupts) 27:00 In: examples? SE: in rain forests, many species.....lots of beetles... in oceans building blocks are in protozoa, relationship between and sea and land species... *when you take a dive here on Lee Stocking you take a dive into history, most of the big wedges of diversity in history are here, in invertebrates, etc. 29:10 Ln: lost of colorful fish... se: ***pains me that people only think of fish as swimming in butter... contributors to healthy planet. Imagine the ocean without fish. they are significant elements to making an ocean an ocean... 300 million years...we see and say Yum Yum, use ingenious ways of catching them, like catching the whole farm when we only need a basket of apples. 31:20 possibility that ocean could run out of fish? SE: 2 things changing nature of earth: ***taking huge quantities of fish without taking into consideration what else we take out. a million tons alone out of Tokyo fish market...no way that the ocean can tolerate this sort of (over fishing) ...the ... (Notes truncated)
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