Today Rex Hunter and Anth are surveying the marinara quadrat today

A few months back Anth promised to bring more of the Why Ocean's Matter panel discussion from the public event evening during the Australian Marine Science Association annual conference - this week we hear the third installment where the panel address 3 audience questions about the future, and given their final take home messages about Why the Ocean Matters.

What does Bird poop, sea shells, seaweed, Mud Island and farming in the mid-1800s have in common? On Sunday morning, Rex Huner will talk about a long gone industry that once mined guano  on Mud Island, and how this was shipped out in small sailing craft (mosquito fleet) to Geelong. Finally, find out about the island's ultimate protection, as a result of lobbying by conservationists, in the early 1900s. A long lost chapter in Victoria's past.

Finally, there is a cool scientist training Program on the RV Investigator (the nation's marine science vessel) that is run by CSIRO to develop our future ocean-going scientists. Ben Adams who runs CAPSTAN (listen to find out why it is called that!) joins us to chat about it.