{"id":56,"date":"2022-02-03T20:55:32","date_gmt":"2022-02-03T20:55:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/liamvanwalsum.com\/?page_id=56"},"modified":"2023-06-14T05:50:04","modified_gmt":"2023-06-14T05:50:04","slug":"liamvanwalsum_aboutme","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/liamvanwalsum.com\/index.php\/liamvanwalsum_aboutme\/","title":{"rendered":"Liam van Walsum: About Me"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"56\" class=\"elementor elementor-56\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-2fb5e3d elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"2fb5e3d\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-fb771c5\" data-id=\"fb771c5\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-dc10161 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"dc10161\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h1 style=\"text-align: left; padding-left: 80px;\">Liam van Walsum<\/h1>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-5fd850f\" data-id=\"5fd850f\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1a8f833 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"1a8f833\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<ul style=\"line-height:1;\" >\n \t<li>Marine Biologist<\/li>\n \t<li>Marine Mammals Observer<\/li>\n \t<li>Passive Acoustic Monitor<\/li>\n \t<li>Data analyst<\/li>\n \t<li>Sailor<\/li>\n<\/ul>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-c2adead elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"c2adead\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-33 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-e52046b\" data-id=\"e52046b\" 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Despite this wild and rich wildlife at my door, something about the endless expansive nothingness of the open ocean fascinated me. I loved learning about the open ocean and the depth below it, and this led to a love of weird and unusual organisms that have developed rather unique methods of surviving in such a unique environment. Organisms such as dragon fish bioluminescence, siphonophore colonialism, tripod fish energy efficiency, hagfish slime, big fin squid arms, larvacean houses, flying fish escapes, scaly foot snail armour, angler fish reproduction, foraminifera carbon compensation, sea cucumber defence, parasitic crustacean mouthparts, and of course, cetaceans, some of the weirdest organisms in the oceans.\u00a0<\/p><p>Cetaceans take unique to the extreme, with beaked whales diving over 3000m on one breathe with no severe recompression induced health risks, bottlenose dolphins who force us to question definitions of ethics, morality and intelligence, sperm whales that can produce sounds with such force they can be heard on the other side of the planet, and Orca&#8217;s that have developed regional cultures based on food sources. I have studied cetacean ecology and behaviour throughout various surveys, biology through various stranding events, and vocalisation through instrumentation both live on survey and via recordings during post analysis. 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