Aimée Komugabe. Photo by James Giggacher.
With the help of one of the planet's oldest marine organisms, an ANU scientist is revealing the natural environment's true history. By LUCY WEDLOCK. She may have grown up in Africa's land-locked Republic of Uganda, but Aimée Komugabe has always felt the inescapable pull of the ocean tide. But it wasn't until after finishing school, when Komugabe was living in another land-locked country, Austria, that the siren call of the deep blue sea became irresistible. Komugabe applied for the Summer Scholar program at ANU and began a project with the Research School of Earth Sciences looking at black corals of the deep ocean. "One week into the program, my supervisor realised that I had no idea if coral was a plant or an animal. He sent me away with a pile of books - and I was hooked.
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