Jesse Rogerson

Um, and, and they think that the main reason for it is because they were forming these big biofilms called mats.

They're like cult, like massive colonies of, of bacteria can form these biofilms that are like slippery, gooey.

Yes, yes.

It's from the infamous Goldblum.

Life finds a way.

And that's one of the important parts of the story is that life can thrive in really interesting places.

And that has impacts or implications for where life started and can be in the solar system.

But also for like your engineering approach of like, how are you decommissioning a nuclear site?

Because these bacteria are corrosive, and they can quickly make the situation in Fukushima worse if you're not cleaning it up too fast.

Exactly, right?

And that's really important.

So it has implications for life and understanding where life came from, but also for engineering and decommissioning.

Nailed it.

Thank you.

Thanks for having me.

Well, it depends on the species.

So one thing to keep in mind here is that all climate change, climate change happens everywhere and it affects the entire earth, but it is accentuated, the effects of it in different ecosystems.

And one of those is at the poles, both north and south.

And in the Antarctic, the warming that's happening across the planet is about four times faster than the warming elsewhere on the planet, on average.

Yeah, so that's a problem.