The great Australian deep with Todd Bond

With the professor momentarily pinned down in Perth, we thought it would be the ideal moment for him to talk to us all about his local waters, the great Australian deep sea.

Did you know that 70% of Australian waters are deeper than 1000m? Now that’s a lot of deep sea! We hear from the Minderoo-UWA Deep Sea Research Centre’s deputy director, Dr Todd Bond about the huge array of marine geographical features and biodiversity in Australia’s waters. Plus, Alan clears up some ongoing Australian-isms that have left him confused.

We also check in with our resident squid expert - Dr Kat Bolstad after the highly anticipated Squidtember comes to a close. Did you vote for your favourite squid, and if so, how did they score? We reckon Alan’s recent videos from the Tonga Trench (that he teased last episode) might’ve had a subtle influence…

Thanks again for tuning in, we’ll deep-see you next time!

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Further resources NEWS/Articles mentioned

New remote sensing technology allows for detailed measurements of deep-sea environments

New chimaera just dropped

100 million year old microbes found 75 m below the seabed are still alive

Biotwang mystery solved

Octopoteuthis - Same sex spermatangea implantation

Ceph Ref - Demo site & GoFundMe

‘Puppet’ squid Grimalditeuthis - Article and MBARI video

People mentioned

Kat Bolstad - Head of AUT Squid Squad lab in Aukland, New Zealand

Sarah McAnulty - Squid biologist, science communicator & purveyor of squid facts

Meg Mindlin - Cephalopod biologist, illustrator, photographer & science communicator

Ryan Howard - Cephalopod vision, AUT Squid Squad

Todd Bond - Deep-sea ecologist & Deputy Director of the Minderoo-UWA Deep-Sea Research Centre

Andrew Stewart - Curator of Fishes at Te Papa Museum, New Zealand

Song of the month

Charlie the Unicorn - In the ocean blue

Youtube & Spotify

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Credits

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Logo image - The Deep-Sea Podcast

Edited by - Georgia Wells