Into the Great Wide Ocean with Sönke Johnsen

About this episode

Tripp Collins interviews biologist Sönke Johnsen about his book on the pelagic zone of the ocean.

Send us Fan Mail Join me for a special one-year anniversary celebration of Book Science as I sit down with biologist and author Sönke Johnsen to discuss his beautiful book, Into the Great Wide Ocean: Life in the Least Known Habitat on Earth. In this episode, Sönke takes us on a journey into the pelagic zone—the open ocean that makes up the vast majority of living space on our planet. We explore why this "unbearably beautiful" world looks like it is lit by blue LEDs, the evolutionary marvels o...

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Guest: Sönke Johnsen

Topics covered

• ocean
• biology
• pelagic zone
• evolution

Keywords

• Into the Great Wide Ocean
• habitat
• marine life

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