Ep. 019: Ever wondered about the life of an oyster before it hits your plate?

This week's guest is oceanographer Jacqueline Rosa. She spent a year and a half monitoring the surface and bottom of the bay, plus six months raising oysters in three kinds of farming gear. One of those was Flip Farm, a New Zealand–designed system that's getting Rhode Island oyster farmers' attention. She did all of this after a decade away from school, working at marine science nonprofits and in outdoor education.

In this episode, we talk about:

• What an oyster "seed" actually is (you'll hear me realize my lack of knowledge on the topic in real time)
• The farmer who knew about a problem at his site before any sensors did
• Which gear lost the most oysters, and the two culprits behind it
• Whether ocean acidification is showing up in Narragansett Bay
• The cold email that led to her funded master's project
• Why her ten years in the workforce helped her succeed as a grad student

Stick around to the end for what's giving Jacque hope for the ocean right now. It's a lovely one :)

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