This week Kirstin Meyer-Kaiser, a benthic ecologist at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, is sitting down to chat about the sea life that uses shipwrecks as their home! Learn about how some of the most isolated shipwrecks off the coast of New England have been colonized by sessile (non-mobile). We dive into the Billy Mitchell fleet, and how these historic war ships ended up on the ocean floor in Stellwagen Bank!

Kirstin's biggest curiosities lie in island communities. Island communities are not just what you think of - tropical islands where the sun is always shining. For some organisms an island can be a shipwreck, isolated at the bottom of the ocean. Kirstin seeks to answer the question of "Who is living at the bottom, and how did you get here?"

You can catch up on Episode 36 - Intro to Benthic Communities with Kirstin Meyer-Kaiser and Episode 37 - Intro to Shipwrecks with Kirstin Meyer-Kaiser, to hear more about the living organisms she works with!

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