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What can jellyfish teach us about climate change?

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Jellyfish & Climate Change
Temperature increase
Invasive species
Acidification
Low Oxygen
Overfishing
And you?
Over 670 million years, jellyfish have become almost invincible creatures, mastering adaptation to the most uninhabitable conditions.
Climate change affects jellyfish differently than other fish species. Acidifying waters, rising temperatures, lack of oxygen and a decrease in natural predators are allowing them to thrive in our seas.
Today we are seeing an important increase in their numbers and this can serve as a clue to climate change.
In the past 40 years, the Mediterranean has become one of the most vulnerable regions in the world to the impacts of global warming, and we are responsible for what is happening to its marine life.
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Jellyfish blooms are not the problem of the Mediterranean Sea. They are a symptom of the stresses we are inflicting on this sea.
Known as the incubator of Western civilisation, the Mediterranean has been a symbol of life and wisdom since 9000BC.
Now this unique area is warming at one of the fastest paces in the world and needs our help in finding creative solutions to save its beautiful ecosystem.
Some inspiration can be found here and here.
ABOUT

This project shows a link between the increase of jellyfish blooms and the effects of Climate Change. Warming of temperatures, oxygen depletion and ocean acidification, coupled with overfishing and invasive species, are giving jellyfish advantage over other marine life.

These incredible animals have learned to hide in plain sight, live forever and have mastered the fastest and most poisonous defence mechanism on Earth. It’s time to turn to them to find a solution to the dramatic changes we have inflicted on the Mediterranean Sea.

The sound ecosystem for Medusae was composed using the 3 musical notes that can be found in the word “medusae”: E, D and A. These 3 notes are woven together with field recordings captured in the Mediterranean sea: cicadas, wind, underwater volcanic bubbles, waves…With each chapter of the experience, the composition takes the listener deeper and deeper into the Mediterranean ecosystem, and the pressure it is under.

A project by
In collaboration with
Team:
Creative Director:
Cristina Tarquini
Creative Developer:
Robert Borghesi
Sound Designer & Composer:
Antoine Bertin
Thanks for the scientific advice to:
Fabien Lombard
DISCLAIMER
Every reasonable effort has been made to make this web experiment as accurate as possible. This web experiment is an expression by the artist to generate discussion, awareness and interest in Climate Change, the data behind it, and consequences of human inaction. Medusae is not intended as a validated source of scientific discoveries or processes.
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