Here lies the Marine Biologist, who spent careers studying life in the deep blue sea, only to discover their own profession was equally endangered. They dedicated their existence to understanding adaptation and survival, cataloging the magnificent biodiversity of our oceans while machines quietly catalogued them. Their passion for marine ecosystems was matched only by their inability to recognize their own professional extinction event. Like the coral reefs they studied, they bleached slowly, then all at once. The irony was not lost on them—they became what they studied: a species struggling to survive in a rapidly changing environment.