"The oceans are the largest habitat on Earth. They're teeming with life. But they're also mysterious and vastly underexplored."
The quote emphasizes two primary aspects about our oceans: their immense biodiversity and their unexplored nature. Despite being the largest ecosystem on Earth, teeming with life forms unseen to many, the oceans remain largely mysterious and underexplored due to their vastness and depths. This underscores the importance of marine research and conservation efforts to protect and understand the diverse life that inhabits these waters.
"If you want to learn about the sea, if you want to find out what the ocean is all about, don't go read a book, don't go talk to some old sailor, go get wet."
This quote by Edith Widder emphasizes the importance of personal, experiential learning when it comes to understanding the sea or ocean. She suggests that knowledge gained through books or hearsay is limited compared to immersing oneself in the ocean – getting 'wet.' It's a call to action for those who seek genuine comprehension of marine life and ecosystems: dive in, explore, and learn firsthand.
"In a strange way, we are all interconnected in this vast ocean of life."
The quote emphasizes the intricate web of connections that exist among all living beings, particularly in the vast expanse of our world's oceans. It suggests that despite our apparent differences and distinct identities, we are part of an interdependent ecosystem where each organism plays a role in maintaining balance and harmony. This reminder encourages empathy, understanding, and responsibility for the well-being of marine life, as our actions have far-reaching impacts on the health of our shared environment.
"The oceans have been hiding so much from us for so long. They're the last frontier."
This quote by Edith Widder emphasizes that the ocean remains a largely unexplored and mysterious part of our world, often compared to Earth's final frontier, similar to how space was perceived in past centuries. It highlights the vast amount of knowledge, species, and phenomena that are yet to be discovered within the oceans, encouraging ongoing research and conservation efforts to unveil their hidden secrets.
"I think it's important to share our discoveries with others and inspire them to help protect the oceans."
This quote suggests that knowledge gained through discovery and exploration should be shared, aiming to inspire people towards a common goal - protecting the oceans. It implies that collective understanding, when communicated effectively, can drive action and collaboration for the preservation of marine life and ecosystems.
Exploring is an innate part of being human. We're all explorers when we're born. Unfortunately, it seems to get drummed out of many of us as we get older, but it's there, I think, in all of us. And for me that moment of discovery is just so thrilling, on any level, that I think anybody that's experienced it is pretty quickly addicted to it.
- Edith Widder
The primary way that we know about what lives in the ocean is we go out and drag nets behind ships. And I defy you to name any other branch of science that still depends on hundreds-of-year-old technology. The other primary way is we go down with submersibles and remote- operated vehicles. I've made hundreds of dives in submersibles.
- Edith Widder
I have made hundreds of dives in submersibles, with each dive holding the promise of seeing an organism or a behavior that no one has ever seen before. But I have always wondered about the animals and behaviors that we're not seeing because our bright lights and loud thrusters scare them away.
- Edith Widder
For my Ph.D. thesis, I was measuring the electrical activity that triggers light emission from a bioluminescent dinoflagellate. As I was nearing the completion of my degree, my major professor wrote a grant for an instrument for measuring the color of very dim light flashes from bioluminescent animals.
- Edith Widder
Since my first dive in a deep-diving submersible, when I went down and turned out the lights and saw the fireworks displays, I've been a bioluminescence junky. But I would come back from those dives and try to share the experience with words, and they were totally inadequate to the task. I needed some way to share the experience directly.
- Edith Widder
In 2008, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded for work done on a molecule called green fluorescent protein that was isolated from the bioluminescent chemistry of a jellyfish, and it's been equated to the invention of the microscope in terms of the impact that it has had on cell biology and genetic engineering.
- Edith Widder
I had wanted to place the Eye-in-the-Sea at an oasis on the bottom of the ocean, in some site rich with life that was likely to be patrolled by large predators. The first time I got to test the camera at such a place was in 2004, in the north end of the Gulf of Mexico, at an amazing location called the brine pool.
- Edith Widder
Squid don't eat jellyfish, but they eat the things that eat the jellyfish. Jellyfishes put on a lightshow to attract a larger predator. It's caught in the clutches of something like a fish and has no hope for escape unless its lightshow attracts something bigger that will attack their attacker.
- Edith Widder
If I go out in the open ocean environment, virtually anywhere in the world, and I drag a net from 3,000 feet to the surface, most of the animals - in fact, in many places, 80 to 90 percent of the animals that I bring up in that net - make light. This makes for some pretty spectacular light shows.
- Edith Widder
Finding animals that make light in the ocean is easy. Just drag a net through the water anywhere in the upper 3000 feet, and as many as 80-90% of the animals you catch can make light. The biomimetic lure that I developed imitates one of these - a common deep sea jellyfish called Atolla.
- Edith Widder
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