This month we hear from The Unseen Ocean Collective, an art and science team dedicated to revealing the beauty and wonder of the deep-ocean while widening the scope of traditional science communication. 

We are talking with Meghan Jones, Lara Beckmann and Nilnajana Das the day before their big show opening in Spokane WA at the Chase Gallery in City Hall. Tune in to hear about the background of this trailblazing group of women, their events in Spokane over the month of April 2026 and plans for the future including where you might be able to see a show of their work!  

This past month Alan and Thom were both guests on the Oceanography Podcast, a weekly podcast hosted by Clark Marchese and produced by Pine Forest Media. 

Oceanography focuses on the Ocean’s most urgent stories, through thoughtful conversations with oceanographers, leading researchers, policymakers, climate scientists, and deep-sea researchers from around the world. 

This podcast is expertly hosted by a terrific science communicator, and brings listeners beneath the surface to take an  immersive, and interdisciplinary look at the blue heart of our planet.

Listen to Thom's interview on Oceanography

• Tongue eating louse makes its debut appearance in a members lab- asked for autographs but far too shy to comply.

• More fish board games- you can never have enough 

• Lots of build it yourself ROV references

• Lost Alan- reward $100

• Baby Paddlefish being adorable at the aquarium

• Deep-Sea dreams of octopus and magic the gathering crossovers

• Update on Alvin Team maintenance

• Thom was on a squid hunt!

• Deep-sea animal purses

• Cartoons of Alan’s Antarctic Sleeper Shark