Bio

Halldis Ringvold is a marine biologist, researcher and manager of Sea Snack Norway ( www.buzzingkid.no). Research interest includes helicosalps, jellyfish, as well as taxonomy and distribution on asteroids and holothuroids. With her colleagues, she also recently discovered that the hitherto unknown, huge, floating gelatinous spheres in Norwegian waters, averaging 1m in diameter, were the egg mass of squid Illex coindetii. With the help of citizen scientists, the research team are hoping to reveal the egg mass of other ommastrephid squids, which have yet to be discovered, like Todarodes sagittatus and Todaropsis eblanae.