Topics and Timestamps

• Gavin lives and works in Jamaica (0:00:30)
• Talking about Perseverance on Mars (0:02:12)
• Collaboration within researchers (0:06:01)
• Differences between Jamaican and North American universities (0:07:08)
• Gavin’s research into aquatic and terrestrial organisms in temporary ponds (0:12:00)
• Gavin discovered a new species of shrimp in Jamaica (0:14:30)
• Where do new pond creatures come from? (0:17:33)
• How Gavin got the idea to research temporary ponds. (0:18:48)
• What does Gavin find when there is water in the pond? (0:21:01)
• What does Gavin find when the pond is starting to dry out? (0:23:33)
• The way creatures can change based on environmental changes (0:25:20)
• What happens when a pond is completely dry? (0:27:02)
• Experiments with temporary ponds (0:31:30)
• The species “Notonecta” eats a LOT of mosquitoes! (0:32:20)
• The kind of water that mosquitoes breed in. (0:34:25)
• Mosquitoes can smell predators from far away (0:36:58)
• Notonecta can be found in ponds (0:38:42)
• Pond jars (0:40:02)
• Gavin adopted and cared for a dragonfly. (0:40:29)
• Gavin’s obsession with dragons. (0:43:15)
• Cool facts about dragonflies. (0:44:20)
• Gavin’s obsession with his research (0:45:30)
• What cartoons does Gavin enjoy? (0:47:37)
• The desire to do voice acting. (0:49:25)

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