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    Piner High School STEM Certificate

    Level I Response

    Remay Berhane

    Presentation Title: Scientist’s Scoop: Nudibranchs - Colorful Creatures of the Sea

    California Academy of Sciences

    Presenter: Academy Scientist, Allison Fritts-Penniman

    Date: May 14th, 2020

    Summary:

    Allison is a marine biologist and a scientist for the California Academy of Sciences. She

    loved to play outside when she was younger which led to her love for nature and her

    wanting to learn more about it and protect it. Since she lived in upstate New York, she

    was far from the ocean and moved to California. In California, she got a job that made

    her want to become a marine biologist. She went to grad school at UCLA. She was

    always interested in biodiversity which was a big part of what got her into marine life

    studying. The main topic of this presentation was nudibranchs, which are slugs that

    have their gills outside of their body. The word nudibranch comes from the Latin words

    nudus which means naked, and brakhia which means gills. Nudibranchs are part of a

    bigger group called mollusks. Mollusks include bivalves, which are creatures with two

    shells, cephalopods like squid and cuttlefish, and gastropods which are slugs and

    snails. To study nudibranchs, which is the main topic of this presentation, she goes to

    places where you can find the most nudibranchs. That place is the Coral Triangle, in
    Southeast Asia. The Coral Triangle has the most amount of coral in the world. The

    Coral Triangle also has the highest number of other marine species that live in coral

    reefs, resulting in one of the highest biodiversities in the world. For the most part,

    nudibranchs are on the seafloor which doesn’t mean they are very deep, they can be

    very shallow. They are found crawling along rocks, coral, and the bottom of the sea.

    What do these nudibranchs do specifically? To protect themselves, some nudibranchs

    will “steal” protection from the man o’ war. They do this by eating the man o’ war’s

    stingers and “pushes them out to its cerata which are its gills. This gives the nudibranch

    protection along with poisonous venom. Some nudibranchs also will eat the plant inside

    the coral. This plant gives the original coral energy, but since the nudibranch has it now,

    the nudibranch has extra energy. This stealing method nudibranchs use is called klepto

    predation.
    Reflection:

    This presentation was very informative and interesting. It made me realize that a lot of

    scientists have to travel the world to get accurate data. You can’t do this job unless you

    are really invested in nature and biodiversity, like she said she was. Although I knew

    slugs and snails on land and on water might be alike in some way, it still shocked me

    when I found out they were cousins. I also learned that snails came before slugs, and

    slugs used to be snails, but evolved to adapt to life without a shell. What I also found

    interesting was the nudibranch’s methods of klepto predation. Klepto means to steal

    and predation is to attack or prey on. I also learned about a nudibranch’s life cycle

    which I assumed wouldn’t be very long. Allison informed me in the video that as long as

    the larvae are eating barnacles in the water, they can survive for months! This video

    made me interested in marine life and made me want to learn more and dive deeper

    into the topic.


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