The Blue Planet effect: why marine biology courses are booming

From battling sea anemones to turtles with cancerous tumours, options for marine research are vast.When she was just 12 years old, an impressionable Cathy Lucas, now associate professor in marine biology at the University of Southampton, met Sir David Attenborough.Just back from a research trip to Saudi Arabia, she’s since spent years investigating what makes jellyfish tick – programme makers at the BBC’s latest natural history series Blue Planet II sought her expertise for a s