{"id":2218,"date":"2026-08-10T13:48:49","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T13:48:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/currents.bigelow.org\/?p=2218"},"modified":"2026-08-10T21:04:43","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T21:04:43","slug":"%f0%9f%aa%bc-siphonophores-jellies-squidsoh-my","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/currents.bigelow.org\/?p=2218","title":{"rendered":"\ud83e\udebc Siphonophores, jellies, squids\u2026oh my!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bYFDWsiOMVk\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We had a packed house last week for <strong>SRS John Burns\u2019 Caf\u00e9 Sci talk<\/strong> on the extraordinary life hidden in the ocean\u2019s midwater \u2014 one of Earth\u2019s largest but least explored habitats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">John is leading a team of engineers and scientists developing cutting-edge imaging and catch-and-release tech to allow researchers to study the delicate creatures that live there in new detail. He shared stories from his recent expedition with <strong>Schmidt Ocean Institute<\/strong> using these advances to help discover<strong> 31 new species.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A huge thank you to John for sharing this work, and to everyone who joined us to celebrate the mysteries and marvels of the midwater.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-3e41869c wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button has-custom-width wp-block-button__width-75\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-medium-font-size has-custom-font-size wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=bYFDWsiOMVk&amp;list=PLW_Vwl5Ztww4\" style=\"padding-right:0;padding-left:0\">Watch the Recording<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We had a packed house last week for SRS John Burns\u2019 Caf\u00e9 Sci talk on the extraordinary life hidden in the ocean\u2019s midwater \u2014 one of Earth\u2019s largest but least explored habitats. John is leading a team of engineers and scientists developing cutting-edge imaging and catch-and-release tech to allow researchers to study the delicate creatures [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2220,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","css_class_manager_body_classes":"","css_class_manager_use_in_post_loop":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[67,52],"class_list":["post-2218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-laboratory","tag-discovery","tag-john-burns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/currents.bigelow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/currents.bigelow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/currents.bigelow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/currents.bigelow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/currents.bigelow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2218"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/currents.bigelow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2224,"href":"https:\/\/currents.bigelow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2218\/revisions\/2224"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/currents.bigelow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/currents.bigelow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/currents.bigelow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/currents.bigelow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}