Sponge Names for Sale, Proceeds to go to Conservation Efforts
COMPOSITE IMAGE: CARINA SIM-SMITH (LEFT); CLEVE HICKMAN AND ANGEL CHIRIBOGA (MIDDLE AND RIGHT) One autumn day in 2019, Michelle Kelly and Carina Sim-Smith were cleaning out the storage room of the Auckland marine lab where they worked. Among the floor-to-ceiling units of shelves brimming with jars of alcohol-preserved sea sponge specimens were a couple of long-forgotten plastic boxes packed with hundreds of jars. Peering inside, “Michelle was like ‘Oh my goodness. Cleve’s sponges,’” recalls Sim-Smith, a marine scientist at ClearSight Consultants. Cleve is Cleve Hickman, a retired ...
Source: the-scientist.com