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Human Elements
The water between land and sea
Season 2
Episode 4
As an aquatic and estuary ecologist, Emily Howe is drawn to the messiness of the food web. Howe works to catalog plant species to determine how to restore these rich ecosystems, which serve as a transition from land to sea.
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