Kelp vs. Urchins

Kelp vs. Urchins

Top of Mind with Julie Rose

Searching for Health, Kelp vs. Urchins, The Agitators

Episode: Searching for Health, Kelp vs. Urchins, The Agitators

  • Apr 22, 2021 8:00 pm
  • 17:17 mins

Underwater forests: beautiful, mysterious, teeming with fishy surprises, and found along the world’s more temperate coastlines. But an enemy is stalking northern California’s shores: small, deceptively pretty sea urchins with a big appetite for kelp. University of California-Santa Cruz ocean sciences graduate student Meredith McPherson details why the urchins wiped out kelp forests and what is being done to turn things around.