How to Become a Marine Biologist | Exploring God’s Creation w/ Sherri Seligson

Welcome to a fascinating episode of the Collide Kids Podcast! Host Christen Clark is thrilled to welcome Sherri Seligson, marine biologist, kids science educator, and author.Sherri shares riveting tales from her adventures studying sea creatures like squid, sharks, and more. Sherri loves blending scientific wonder with lessons about life. Discover how her work, which spans from managing predators at Walt Disney World’s Living Seas to exploring the Great Barrier Reef, underscores the harmony between science and faith.Listeners will be inspired by Sherri’s passion for making science engaging and relatable, whether it’s through her captivating storytelling or her hands-on educational methods. Learn about her latest book, "Wonders of the Ocean Realm," set to release on January 7, 2025, which serves as a fantastic resource for parents and kids to explore the unity of faith and science.Don’t miss the "Kids Only Segment," featuring a funny joke from young listener Riley! Tune in for an episode packed with educational insights, faith-filled discussions, and oceanic adventures!LINKS: sherriseligson.comSpecial thanks to our editor, Jay Lee from provisionpods.comClip Finder:Viral Topic - The Hidden Lives of Aquarium Predators: "I published scientific research on shark behavior, studying how they behaved in the aquarium environment as new animals came in, what they did when divers were in the water and learning a little bit more about how they behave, because we can do that in an aquarium, and we can't do that out in the ocean as easily."— Sherri Seligson [00:09:34 → 00:09:49]Unique Aquarium Design: "One unique thing about the living seas, that if you ever go there at Epcot, you'll see it's a circular shaped aquarium, and one fourth of the aquarium has these large bars separating the other three fourths of the aquarium, like a pie, a wedge of a piece. And the dolphins get to swim in that area, and the sharks are in the big area."— Sherri Seligson [00:10:49 → 00:11:07]"Science and Faith": "Science, by definition, never proves anything. We can't prove anything in science. We can only come up with certain evidences of things, and then we make suggestions based on our faith."— Sherri Seligson [00:12:59 → 00:13:09]**How Simple Bacteria Communicate**: "How can bacteria, which are the simplest living things in the world, how can something that simple know what's going on? They can't communicate that we know of."— Sherri Seligson [00:17:42 → 00:17:51]"Teaching Through Experience: So when we talk about and teach about migration of animals migrating from one place to another, we go to the Serengeti, and we stand in the middle of the wildebeest migration, where there's hundreds of thousands of wildebeest, and it smells like hundreds of thousands of cows, you can imagine."— Sherri Seligson [00:26:04 → 00:26:22]Learning Through Adventure: "So we get to go lots of places to be able to show examples of some of the principles that we're learning about in science, to give you a visual to make you say, oh, yeah, I remember it was this way, and it makes it much more exciting and interesting than just reading a sentence."— Sherri Seligson [00:27:36 → 00:27:52]Childhood Dreams: "I wanted to know more about how to be a scuba diver, to be able to stay underwater longer."— Sherri Seligson [00:31:07 → 00:31:11] Bark proactively works to monitor, detect, and alert you to potential issues on your kids' devices. Visit bark.us to learn more about how you can keep your kids safe online. Use the code COLLIDEKIDS to get 15% off Your Bark Technologies Plan !Support the show