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The Deep-Sea Podcast

A couple of deep-sea scientists talk everything deep sea! Interesting facts, recent news, myth-busting and interviews with the most interesting people we know.

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PRESSURISED: 063 – Bioluminescent Symbiosis with...

The Deep-Sea Podcast ·

2025/11/15

Welcome to the PRESSURISED version of episode 63, just the science, none of the wafflePRESSURISED: Bioluminescent Symbiosis with Margaret McFall-Ngai | The Deep-Sea Podcast | Episode 63 Our guest this month is Dr. Margaret McFall-Ngai, an animal physiologist and biochemist who is a staff researcher at Carnegie Institution for Science’s Division of Biosphere Sciences and Engineering, with her lab stationed at the California Institute of Technology in Biology and Biological Engineering. Dr

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Bioluminescent Symbiosis with Margaret McFall-Ngai

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2025/11/07

Episode SummaryIn our newest episode, Bioluminescent Symbiosis, we speak with Dr. Margaret McFall-Ngai, an animal physiologist and biochemist about her work with the Hawaiian bobtail squid (Euprymna scolopes) and its partner, the luminous bacterium Vibrio fischeri. McFall-Ngai provides a great synopsis of how this stable beneficial relationship not only creates light, and supports the bobtail maturation, but can also help us understand what could be going on in the light organs of deep-sea

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38:08

The Deco-Stop: 004 - No Word for Ocean with Yakup Niyazi

The Deep-Sea Podcast ·

2025/10/03

Here’s our fourth episode of The Deco-Stop; a deeper look into the humans behind deep-sea science and technology. We’ve done our science dive, and now it’s time to decompress, and discuss tales at sea, career paths and the social & political aspects of deep-sea science. We have gazed into the abyss, and now it's gazing back at us.Alan and Thom speak with Yakup Niyazi, a marine geoscientist who first saw the ocean at the age of 27. This fourth instalment in the Deco-Stop series, which focuses

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37:59

PRESSURISED: 062 – Mythbusting Ai with Tyler Greenfield

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2025/09/16

Welcome to the PRESSURISED version of episode 62, just the science, none of the wafflePRESSURISED: Mythbusting Ai with Tyler Greenfield | The Deep-Sea Podcast | Episode 62 Check out our lovely new website where you can find more detailed notes, images and links to the wider reading. In a follow-up to one of our favourite episodes, Ep 10 Here be Monsters, we bring Tyler Greenfield back for another fascinating chat, this time about Mythbusting in the age of Artificial Intelligence. Our feeds have

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93:15

Mythbusting AI with Tyler Greenfield

The Deep-Sea Podcast ·

2025/09/08

Check out our lovely new website where you can find more detailed notes, images and links to the wider reading.In this episode… Welcome back to the Deep-Sea Podcast, your punk take on all things deep sea! Join Alan in the Industrial Badlands of the Canary Islands as he cuts holes in ships, while Thom rubs elbows with New Zealand’s political elite. In the news, get ready for updates on: A meeting in Perth to discuss the Red List status of Deep-sea organisms. Deep-sea desalination

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32:28

PRESSURISED: 061 – Trench nutrient cycling with...

The Deep-Sea Podcast ·

2025/08/16

Welcome to the PRESSURISED version of episode 61, just the science, none of the wafflePRESSURISED: Trench nutrient cycling with Ronnie N. Glud | The Deep Sea Podcast | Episode 61 Guest Interview: Nutrient cycling in the hadal trenches (6 to 11 km) and the crucial role they play in global element cycling. Professor Ronnie N. Glud, a leading biochemist and Director of the Danish Centre for Hadal Research (HADAL) talks us through how the trenches, once thought to be barren, are actually "dynamic

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55:35

Trench nutrient cycling with Ronnie N. Glud

The Deep-Sea Podcast ·

2025/08/03

In this episode… Welcome back to the Deep-Sea Podcast, your punk take on all things deep sea! Join Dr. Thom Linley and Professor Alan Jamieson as they dive into the latest from the abyssal plain and beyond. Deep Sea News Highlights: We kick things off with a rethinking of the deep-sea boundary! Professor Alan Jamieson discusses his recent "food for thought" paper that challenges the long-held 200-meter definition, arguing for a more scientifically relevant boundary of 1,000 meters. Find out why this

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31:16

PRESSURISED: 060 – Mesophotic Reefs with Yi-Kai Tea

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2025/07/17

Welcome to the PRESSURISED version of episode 60, just the science, none of the wafflePRESSURISED: Mesophotic Reefs with Yi-Kai Tea | The Deep Sea Podcast | Episode 60 In this month's episode, we discuss mesophotic reefs, the deeper extents of coral reefs that have been overlooked in the past. It’s a wild ride that leads us to homemade hyperbaric chambers, the aquarium trade and the world’s most expensive fish. Strap in for a rollercoaster ride as we dive to the limits of scuba. Find out

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01:07:37

Mesophotic Reefs with Yi-Kai Tea

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2025/07/07

In this episode…Sorry the episode is a little late…. But it’s a bumper! Alan has been checking out hypercars while sharks have been checking out Thom. In the news, we have art, anglerfish, squid and sea spiders. Then an orafish turns up, and we are all doomed. In this month's episode, we discuss mesophotic reefs, the deeper extents of coral reefs that have been overlooked in the past. It’s a wild ride that leads us to homemade hyperbaric chambers, the aquarium trade and the world’s most

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32:06

PRESSURISED: 059 - eDNA with Georgia Nester

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2025/06/15

eDNA with Georgia Nester | The Deep Sea Podcast | Episode 59Welcome to the PRESSURISED version of episode 59, just the science, none of the waffle For this month’s interview, we speak with Dr. Georgia Nester, a colleague of Alan’s from the University of Western Australia, about eDNA (Environmental DNA is any genetic material left behind by organisms in an environment). She talks about how several collection methods, eg.: Niskin bottles, sponges and paper filters, located on the deep-sea lander

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01:04:29

eDNA with Georgia Nester

The Deep-Sea Podcast ·

2025/06/06

eDNA with Georgia Nester | The Deep Sea Podcast | Episode 59“Exploration is about the place, adventurism is about the person, science is about the question” Professor Alan Jamieson In an episode recorded earlier than usual, which is to say not recorded late, and so perhaps recorded right on time?... we are talking about environmental DNA or eDNA. Thom is headed off to Norfolk Island, north of New Zealand, to characterize the unique life in the region and hopefully not be eaten by sharks

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24:37

PRESSURISED: 058 - Antarctic ice-seabed interactions

The Deep-Sea Podcast ·

2025/05/09

Welcome to the PRESSURISED version of episode 58, just the science, none of the waffleWe are still talking about Antarctica, the continent that keeps on giving! For this month's interview, we speak with Devin Harrison - Marine Geoscientist/Postdoctoral Researcher at Kelpie Geoscience - Devin is a postdoctoral research fellow at Kelpie Geoscience. His research utilises high-resolution topographic models of the seafloor and complementary geophysical and geospatial datasets to understand the

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56:38

Antarctic ice-seabed interactions

The Deep-Sea Podcast ·

2025/05/03

We are still talking about Antarctica, the continent that keeps on giving!Alan and Thom discuss trying to stop working momentarily, constructing a treehouse, and acquiring a shark. In the news, we rattle off a list of newly discovered species with some very cool (but hard to pronounce) names. There has been a lot of squiddy news. Footage of divers swimming with a giant squid has resurfaced; in an exclusive for the podcast, Alan has recorded more amazing Magnapinna (bigfin or elbow squid) footage

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32:21

PRESSURISED: 057 - A peek under the ice

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2025/04/14

It’s the last in our run of episodes about Antarctica. We are all back home, and we promise to stop bothering the poor continent.Thom couldn’t talk about it until after the press release, but the Schmidt Ocean Institute cruise he was on had to look at the seabed under a 150-meter-thick ice shelf right as it moved out of the way. We talked to the science leads on that cruise, Patricia Esquete and Sasha Montelli. We learned about the hydrography and glaciology of that region and then the seabed and

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01:16:35

A peek under the ice

The Deep-Sea Podcast ·

2025/04/07

It’s the last in our run of episodes about Antarctica. We are all back home, and we promise to stop bothering the poor continent.Alan and Thom discuss returning to an inbox of horrors and readjusting to time away. More cable cutting in our news updates, blobfish being voted fish of the year, and the tongue-eating louse potentially being invertebrate of the year. We don’t want to say we influence the news, but it seems a little spooky. Thom couldn’t talk about it until after the press release, but

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25:33

PRESSURISED: 056 - Colossal squid

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2025/03/14

Coming to you from an Airbnb, above a ski hire shop, next to a construction site in Ushuia, Argentina… It’s a very special episode as we continue to pester Antarctica.We are here for today is a very special birthday. Our favorite and most elusive colossal squid, Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni, has been described for 100 years but never seen in its natural environment! We are having a birthday bash for the big girl. Joined by Kat Bolstad of the Auckland University of Technology, Squid Squad, we learn

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01:10:26

Colossal squid birthday special

The Deep-Sea Podcast ·

2025/03/07

Coming to you from an Airbnb, above a ski hire shop, next to a construction site in Ushuia, Argentina… It’s a very special episode as we continue to pester Antarctica.Alan checks in from Barcelona for mysterious reasons. We’ll have to get the truth our of him in the future… Lots is going on in the news; deep-sea fish keep turning up, including a little Melanocetus anglerfish - sometimes called a black seadevil. This has had a real impact on people. The media tried to call it a monster, but the

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32:19

PRESSURISED: 055 - Antarctic Fishes

The Deep-Sea Podcast ·

2025/02/15

Our short and to the point PRESSURISED version of episode 55. If you don't have time for the full episode and want to get right to the science without any of our waffle, this is the place to be!Read the show notes and find the full episode here: https://www.armatusoceanic.com/podcast/055-antarcticfishes Now it’s Thom’s turn to hit Antarctica. He’s out with the Schmidt Ocean Institute on the Antarctic Climate Connections expedition to the Bellinghousen Sea, to the west of the Antarctic

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01:17:06

Antarctic Fishes

The Deep-Sea Podcast ·

2025/02/08

The gang has swapped places, Alan is back in Perth and now it’s Thom’s turn to hit Antarctica. He’s out with the Schmidt Ocean Institute on the Antarctic Climate Connections expedition to the Bellinghousen Sea, to the west of the Antarctic Peninsula. He will record, edit and upload a podcast from there… somehow. This episode may sound a little rougher as a result, but the content is gold as ever… Underrated belter alert. The Prof managed to have some downtime with the family in Antarctica and has

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30:08

PRESSURISED: 054 - Going to Antarctica

The Deep-Sea Podcast ·

2025/01/10

Our short and to the point PRESSURISED version of episode 54. If you don't have time for the full episode and want to get right to the science without any of our waffle, this is the place to be!Read the show notes and find the full episode here: https://www.armatusoceanic.com/podcast/054-antarctica It’s a big one! With The Professor down in Antarctica and Dr Thom not too far behind him, we’ve got an update live from the field. We’re talking about Antarctic submarine dives, below-freezing

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