How Shrimp Swim with Sara Santos May 13 2025, 1pm Eastern 10am Pacific? RSVP here! Sara is a scientist who studies how water moves when animals swim through. She focuses on shrimp to understand how they swim and uses that knowledge to design underwater robots. These robots will one day explore oceans on Earth. They could even explore oceans in the solar system, like the ones in Europa and Enceladus. Sara did experiments with both live and robot shrimp to figure out how shrimp swim. She discovered that shrimp use unique swirling patterns in the water, called vortices, to help them move forward. This resembles how small flying insects like bees stay in the air. Her work helps answer questions about how animals move in water and connects ideas from nature to new technology.
