Macrophycology (SEAWEED) with Patrick Martone, Charles Yarish, Danielle McHaskell, Angela Jones, and Becky Swerida

Oh hey, it's the guy testing out the patio furniture at Costco, Allie Ward. Let's see how fast I can get through this intro because this episode on seaweeds and kelps and algae and such has five, count them five, allogists, and it's a wild ride into the ocean waves. Okay, first up, I'm just gonna get into them. We have Dr. Patrick Martone, who heads up the Martone lab in the botany department at the University of British Columbia.

He studies the evolution and anatomy and biomechanics and ecology of seaweed. Also, he's a tech mogul. Not really, but he did invent an app called the Seaweed Sorter that you can get and it helps you identify and what he has said hopefully fall in love with more than a hundred seaweed species. So that's called the seaweed sorter. Patrick was recommended to me over three years ago by this guy named Colin, who wrote in, called him a gregarious, intelligent seaweed evangelist who exudes enthusiasm and would be a perfect addition to ologies.

And then uh Colin said, as nominated by his partner and longtime listener to the podcast. So that was the cutest thing I ever read. And I'm in. He also has a seaweed tattoo, so checks every box.

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