Emmett Duffy is a marine biologist and Director of the Smithsonian’s Tennenbaum Marine Observatories Network, a new global partnership to establish a baseline and regular accounting of marine biodiversity in the nearshore ocean. Emmett was hooked at a young age by the bizarre and wonderful diversity of spineless creatures and has been seeking them out in near and faraway places, and studying what they’re up to, ever since.

Pamela Reynolds is a postdoc at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science and University California, Davis investigating the causes and consequences of marine biodiversity. She coordinates the Zostera Experimental Network.