00:00The very first time that I heard the name SS United States, it was actually from a Huey donor at
00:06one of our events.
00:07I was presenting a poster on my research on the communities that live on shipwrecks,
00:12and this person asked if I knew that they were sinking this giant ship off of Florida,
00:18and realized that this is the prime opportunity to study formation of a marine community from scratch.
00:27In order to keep track of what's living on the ship, we are going to take photos at set points
00:33around the ship,
00:34so then we can return to the exact same location every year and get photos of what has settled there
00:41and how the community has grown and developed.
00:44If you look at the place that the SS United States is being sunk, it's actually at the northernmost extent
00:51of the loop current,
00:52which circles into the Gulf and then back out to the Atlantic.
00:57I have this crazy hypothesis that maybe we would eventually see some recruitment of species that are carried by that
01:05loop current,
01:06maybe from faraway places such as Belize or the Yucatan.
01:10So by virtue of its location, SS United States presents that opportunity for research,
01:15so we can detect if there is long-distance dispersal,
01:19and then figure out how that is driven by biological or oceanographic variation.
01:27So by virtue of its location,
01:28we can see where it comes from later.
01:28What happens when we see a cabin when we see a cabin in the air?
01:28Grazie a tutti.
