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Elizabeth Shadwick

Elizabeth Shadwick

Dr Elizabeth Shadwick is a marine biogeochemist and Principal Research Scientist at CSIRO, leading the Ocean Carbon Observations Team and the IMOS Southern Ocean Time Series observatory.

Sep 28, 2026

10:27
How do you get one of these things going?
10:31
So launch day might be as early as Saturday or Sunday, depending on the forecast.
10:35
Oh, wow.
10:36
Yeah, I know.
10:37
It's very exciting.
10:37
It's coming up quite soon, actually.
10:39
And so they arrived in shipping containers, so a 40-foot-long shipping container, so kind of double the length of a normal shipping container that you might have as a studio or something in your garden.

9 MINS LATER

19:43
How do you collaborate all of these different parties together and how does it get funded and all of that? It's incredibly impressive.
13:36
What is it? Talk to me about that.
13:39
So we talked about the way that the physics work to move CO2 from the atmosphere into the deep ocean where maybe it stays for a very long time.
13:47
There's a secondary process.
13:49
I mean, not secondary.
13:50
There's another process called the biological carbon pump, which is how biology acts to move carbon from the surface of the ocean to into the deep sea.
14:01
And this one is really all about phytoplankton.
14:04
So phytoplankton are tiny marine plants.
17:07
What has time shown you that we've seen change in those two decades?

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