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Bio & achievements
Professor Antje Boetius is a polar and deep sea researcher and President and CEO of MBARI. Her work explores microbial life, chemical energy, the ocean carbon cycle and change in polar seas.
- President and CEO of MBARI
- Polar and deep sea researcher; former director of the Alfred Wegener Institute
Meet the guest
Professor Antje Boetius
Life without sunlight
Professor Antje Boetius explains how deep sea communities obtain energy, including life at hydrothermal vents and cold seeps.
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Deep sea chemosynthesis
How does life survive where sunlight never reaches? Professor Antje Boetius, President and CEO of MBARI, explains deep sea microbes, Arctic change, mining recovery and the unknown ocean.
In this full Orca Group Series conversation with Nick Long, Professor Antje Boetius distinguishes food falling from the sunlit ocean from communities powered by chemical energy at hydrothermal vents and cold seeps. She discusses symbiosis, methane consuming microbes, polar change she has witnessed, the long recovery times of deep habitats, marine protection, mapping, eDNA, robots, AI and expert taxonomy, ocean carbon uncertainty, plastic pollution myths, Octopus Garden and why long observation matters.