This wide ranging interview with UCI ‘CORAL KEEPER’ Professor Joleah Lamb delves into her Lamb Lab, the dangers of scuba diving in a down current, ocean gyres and the mammoth garbage patch of plastic. She was recently featured in the BBC documentary ‘Drowning in Plastic’. In April 2020, Professor Lamb was elected as an Early Career Fellow by the Ecological Society of America. Her lab’s work is critical as the ocean and corals are attacked by pollution on many fronts. She is a leader in her field.