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i've been working

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remotely on the galapagos for the last

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25 years published a few papers

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had some wonderful collaborations with

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people

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but i've never been down there this year

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happens to coincide with the 200th

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anniversary of the birth of charles

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darwin

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it's also the 150th anniversary of the

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publication of the origin of species

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to celebrate that the charles darwin

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foundation is holding an international

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symposium they've invited me to come

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down i'm going to present a paper on

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my perspective of the galapagos over the

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last 25 years as a satellite

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oceanographer

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i wrote a proposal to nasa to study the

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ocean ocean color in particular eastern

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pacific using this new satellite that

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they had

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and that's where my research started

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just at that time in the 8283 period

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this was the biggest el nino of the

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century

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and here i am sitting on a data set that

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captured for the first time

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the impact on a very large scale of el

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nino

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having that perspective in space and

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watching this event develop over time

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revealed things that we'd never seen

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before

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so they've invited me to come down so

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i'm really excited about it

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of all the places in the world there's

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probably

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no place

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like the galapagos for a number of

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different reasons the volcanic islands

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in the middle of the ocean

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they're about a thousand kilometers to

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the west of south america

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and they sit right on the equator

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and because of that unique position

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they are influenced by some very very

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unique oceanographic conditions because

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of their isolation

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it's been a place where evolution could

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run rampant and very quickly

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it's the only place in the world where

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you'll find tropical subtropical

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and

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you know almost antarctic species

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because of the unique environment it's

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the only place where you'll find

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penguins and coral reefs

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in the same location

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darwin spent five weeks in the galapagos

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most people admit that if it had not

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been for those five weeks in the

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galapagos and the things that he had

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seen there

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that he probably would not have come up

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with the origin of species

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what he saw in the galapagos

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critically changed the way he viewed

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it's been a really strange

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realization that i'm actually going to

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finally get to go to the galapagos

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i feel like i know them but i know them

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from a distance so i don't know how i'm

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going to feel

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it's exciting it's a little scary

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because i think i know about the place

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but but maybe i really don't you know my

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perspective has been from 600 kilometers

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up in space

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but i'm going to get real up close and

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personal with lava fields and upwelling

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of the equatorial undercurrent and the

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winds and the waves and the tortoises

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and

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it's

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thought about for years and years and