Hosts: Nels Elde and Vincent Racaniello

Guest: Josh Drew

Josh joins Nels and Vincent to talk about his research on the evolution and conservation of aquatic tropical  biodiversity, and the historical ecology of 19th century American Whalers.

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Links for this episode

• Drew Laboratory at Columbia University
• American Whalers by Ed Yong
• Karen Bao
• Sea cucumber genome
• Sea cucumber population connectivity (Nature)

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