In terms of a muse to write about, they live on this line that is both angelic and demonic and nothing about them is clear-cut. I dug in and found there was this excitement and controversy in the literature about jellyfish and how their abundance was increasing in today’s damaged oceans. My PhD is in ocean science, so I love to look into the scientific literature. I thought, “Really? Do we know that for sure?” The winner side was things like algae, microalgae, kelp, and jellyfish. Looking at the losers first, it was all things with shells, which dissolve in higher acidity. In that story there was a graphic showing the winners and losers in a future acidified ocean.
I was writing captions for a National Geographic story about acid seas by Elizabeth Kolbert. It wasn’t actually their beauty that initially got me into it.
The highlight of our summers on Long Island is when the moon jellies bloom and we get phosphorescent water at night-jellyfish can make the sea a magical place.
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