Bay Area sculptor and installation artist Mark Baugh-Sasaki will be working with Stanford ocean scientists over the coming months as the inaugural Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability Visiting Artist. During his residency he will work with Stanford researchers who are examining a 4-meter-long core of Southern Ocean sediment formed over more than 1,000 years. The team is investigating the core’s fossilized snapshot of southern Ocean ecosystems when industrial whaling nearly eradicated blue whales.