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Podcast: American Shoreline Podcast Network
Episode: The Kelp Crisis and the Miracle of Macroalgae | Changing Waters
Description: In the latest episode of Changing Waters, Global Ocean Health's Deputy Director Julia Sanders interviews kelp guru, Dr. Tom Mumford from the Friday Harbor Laboratories, University of Washington in Seattle. Â Â From Northern California to Southern Oregon, kelp is undergoing devastating losses, with 95% of kelp forests turned into urchin barrens. Â Â Tom explains what happened and the miraculous benefits kelp provides as an ecosystem engineer and a source for new scientific discoveries. Â Â From kelp-derived plastic you can eat, to wound care, from rediscovering how kelp can help farmers, to a critical contributor to biodiversity and marine food webs, there is much to be...