 So you might think you're looking at just a sea star right here but what we see when we look at this is a sea star plus all of its microbes, viruses, everything that lives inside of it that can be keeping it healthy or making it sick. My goal as a scientist is to understand the mechanisms of resilience in the sea so understand how organisms are coping with the current environmental conditions, how their history and different environments and in the ecology of their systems affects how they might survive in the future. So we're trying to understand the mechanisms of resilience in the sea using a number of different organisms. I love the diversity in the sea, the diversity like all life forms began in the sea billions of years ago so I love understanding what makes an urchin an urchin a sea star a sea star and how those life forms are so different from mollusks and are different from vertebrates so most of the diversity that we see in the ocean is in invertebrate life forms that is fascinating to me and observing this in the wild and learning how we can protect it for the future is critical to what we do in my lab.