🌊📷PHOTOS: DEEP LOOK AT OCEANS NIGHTLIFE📷🌊

 Hey Deep Peeps! We had a great turnout for our Deep Look screening, featuring our nudibranchs, corals, barnacles and jellyfish videos, at the California Academy of Sciences ‘In the Deep’ Nightlife event in San Francisco on Thursday, March 20. The screening was held in the academy’s African Hall exhibit space, with about 70 people in attendance. 

Deep Look’s award-winning lead producer and cinematographer Josh Cassidy did a fantastic job of moderating the screening and discussion with scientists that helped us make the films. He also conducted a great Q&A session with Terry Gosliner, the academy’s nudibranchs expert, and Sarah Cohen, a San Francisco State University biologist, who talked about barnacles. 

After screening This Adorable Sea Slug Is a Sneaky Little Thief, Terry talked about how nudibranchs (colorful sea slugs) survive without a shell by utilizing some very sophisticated defenses, including stealing weapons from their prey. Sarah has helped us with many ocean-related Deep Look episodes. For this event we screened Barnacles Go to Unbelievable Lengths to Hook Up. Sarah discussed why it's important to study barnacles: They offer clues on how marine organisms adapt to changing ocean conditions. She also got into the wow factor of their reproduction strategy -- a barnacle has the longest penis of any animal relative to its body size!

Rosa Tuirán, one of our talented Deep Look producers, hosted an enlightening Q&A session with Rebecca Albright, the Academy’s coral expert. After screening A Coral Is Born, they discussed how corals reproduce both sexually and asexually, and also chatted about Albright’s research into coral regeneration, which helps mitigate the effects of coral bleaching.  

We’re thrilled  the academy invited us to this oceans-themed “NightLife,” and big shout-outs to the scientists! We couldn’t have made the videos without their stellar expertise and research! 

We also couldn’t have made these videos without our Patreon members who support us monthly! So thank you again for your generous support! ❤️🙏❤️

Photos:

Photo 1:  L-R  California Academy of Science’s Rebecca Albright and Terry Gosliner; San Francisco State’s Sarah Cohen and Deep Look’s Josh Cassidy and Rosa Tuirán take a group photo before the screening in African Hall.

Photo 2: Josh Cassidy welcomes the crowd to the screening. 

Photo 3: The crowd watches Deep Look’s ‘This Adorable Sea Slug Is a Sneaky Little Thief.’

Photo 4: Terry Gosliner answers a question from the audience about nudibranchs. 

Photo 5 & 6: The crowd watches Deep Look’s ‘A Coral Is Born.’ 

Photo 7: Rebecca Albright answers a question from the audience about coral spawning. 

Photo 8: (L-R) Sarah Cohen and Josh Cassidy talk about barnacles.