On this website…

You are going to be able to find answers to all sorts of questions you may already have or maybe that you do not have yet! Because as you may have noticed already, the more you learn, the more questions you have! That is awesome!

You are going to see the beach you are used to go with a brand new look and with an increasing interest. When you know where and what to look, the world around you look different, even if it is in fact the same as before. When I learned that there are different zones on the seashore with specific species depending on their tolerance to dryness, walking when the sea is low became so much more fun and interesting! Understanding nature around you is like getting a map of the city you just moved in, it is way clearer and you want to explore even more!

Your love for seas and oceans is just going to continue to grow.

To be able to gather this knowledge and learn how to look for information I had to:

• go through long studies with a Bachelor, a Master, and know a PhD,
• do lots of research by my own
• do lots of research internships
  

Despite my love for oceans, learning all this has needed a lot of hard work and sometimes it has been heavy going. That is why I decided to start writing on this blog. I would like this knowledge to be more accessible and understandable for everybody who is interested. So I will do my best to explain complex possesses in an easy way as much as I can. Do not hesitate to tell me in the comment sections at the end of blog posts if it is still a bit hard for you to understand or if you have any questions! You can also get in touch with me if you have ideas or needs regarding this subject. It has been a while now that I am using this “heavy scientific English” so I am going to need some practice! 🙂

If you are sensitive to ecological issues, one of the first step to help and do your part is to love what is around you and to do so, for me, it has also been through understanding and knowing more about species interactions with their environment. This is also important knowledge before being able to protect and conserve our ecosystems. I have seen many people loving nature and doing their best to help but actually making things worse because they did not know the consequences. I have met this really nice and interesting couple in Lapland; they are doing amazing things and thinking a lot about their impact on nature. It has been so interesting sharing and discussing with them. But at some point, they told me that when they are going to the forest, they bring every seeds they kept from their food to plant them. Obviously, they did not think or know about how we can end up with species invasions (if you do not know neither it is fine, no worries, you can read articles on the blog to find out). I do not tell this story for any of us to judge. It is not the issue; they were thinking doing the right thing here. It is just to illustrate how knowledge is important to protect nature and take the right actions!