Synopsis
Dive into the Pacific Ocean. Hear the latest news about the Aquarium of the Pacific, its animals, and exhibits, and listen to a variety of scientists and guest speakers covering important issues facing our ocean and planet. To download video files of these podcasts, visit our website at http://www.aquariumofpacific.org/multimedia
Episodes
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Andrew Reeves - Unwitting Helpers: The Strange, True Story of How Silent Spring and the Clean Water Act Gave Rise to Asian Carp in America
27/01/2020 Duration: 04minAndrew Reeves recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on February 26, 2020. Reeves is an author and environmental journalist.
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Nate Jaros and Briana Fodor - Coral Reef Restoration in Palau and the Bahamas
27/01/2020 Duration: 03minNate Jaros and Briana Fodor recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on February 19, 2020. Jaros is the Aquarium’s curator of fish and invertebrates, and Fodor is a senior aquarist.
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David Bader - A Story About People and Place: Lessons Learned in Vaquita Conservation
27/01/2020 Duration: 05minDavid Bader recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on February 6, 2020. Bader is the Aquarium's director of education and lead coordinator for the Association of Zoos and Aquariums’ Vaquita SAFE (Saving Animals From Extinction) program.
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Josie Iselin - The Curious World of Seaweed
24/12/2019 Duration: 07minJosie Iselin recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on January 30, 2020. Iselin is an artist and author of the new book, The Curious World of Seaweed.
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Ellen Prager - Galápagos Wonders
24/12/2019 Duration: 05minEllen Prager recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on January 22, 2020. Dr. Prager is a marine scientist and science advisor to Celebrity Cruises in the Galápagos Islands. Her previous books include Sex, Drugs, and Sea Slime: The Oceans’ Oddest Creatures and Why They Matter.
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Susan Gerros - Saving Birds in the Northern Mariana Islands
24/12/2019 Duration: 01minSusan Gerros recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on January 15, 2020. Gerros is a senior aviculturist at the Aquarium and cares for birds and reptiles.
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Jason Smith - Metals for the Future
04/11/2019 Duration: 02minDr. Jason Smith recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on November 19, 2019. Dr. Smith is lead environmental scientist at DeepGreen Resources.
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Barbara Taylor - Vanishing Vaquitas
04/11/2019 Duration: 05minDr. Barbara Taylor recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on November 12, 2019. Dr. Taylor is the leader of the Marine Mammal Genetics Program at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Southwest Fisheries Science Center and chair of the Marine Mammal Society’s Conservation Committee.
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Danielle Eubank - One Artist, Five Oceans
04/11/2019 Duration: 05minDanielle Eubank recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on November 5, 2019. Eubank is a painter and member of The Explorer’s Club, and a 2018 Creative Climate Awards nominee.
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Lee McIntyre - The Scientific Attitude
24/09/2019 Duration: 06minLee McIntyre recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on October 8, 2019. McIntyre is a research fellow at the Center for Philosophy and History of Science at Boston University and a lecturer in ethics at Harvard Extension School.
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Yi Chao - Underwater Drones to Discover the Unknowns
04/09/2019 Duration: 03minDr. Yi Chao recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on September 24, 2019. Dr. Chao is the founder and CEO of Seatrec.
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Chris Corpus - Land of the Blue Sky: How Mongolia’s Conservation Efforts Can Inform Ocean Conservation
04/09/2019 Duration: 06minChris Corpus recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on September 19, 2019. Corpus is Aquarium’s audio visual production manager, producing the Aquarium’s web series, films, and documentaries.
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Ken Kurtis - Journey to the Island of Yap: Stone Money, Massive Manta Rays, and More
22/07/2019 Duration: 05minKen Kurtis recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on August 20, 2019. Kurtis has been an Aquarium volunteer since 1998. He is a dive team leader at the Aquarium and a National Association of Underwater Instructors SCUBA instructor.
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Mike Bartick - Exotic Animals of the Night Sea
22/07/2019 Duration: 03minMike Bartick recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on August 14, 2019. Bartick is a field guide who conducts photo safaris, lectures, and seminars.
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Kathayoon Khalil - The People Problem: Including Social Sciences in Wildlife Conservation
22/07/2019 Duration: 03minKathayoon Khalil recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on August 8, 2019. Khalil is the principal evaluator for the Seattle Aquarium.
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Jennifer Brandon - “No, It’s Not Actually an Island”: What Studying the Great Pacific Garbage Patch Taught Me About Being a Science Communicator
28/06/2019 Duration: 06minJennifer Brandon recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on July 24, 2019. Brandon has a Ph.D. in biological oceanography from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. She recently completed an eighteen-month stint as the Price Postdoctoral Fellow in science communication and outreach at the Birch Aquarium at Scripps.
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Shawn Maestretti and Leigh Adams - Climate Reality: Regeneration of the Landscape
28/06/2019 Duration: 02minShawn Maestretti and Leigh Adams recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on July 17, 2019. Maestretti is a landscape architect, arborist, and principal of Shawn Maestretti Garden Architecture. Adams is a horticultural interpreter at the Los Angeles County Arboretum and Botanic Gardens.
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Kim Steinhardt - The Sea Otter Survival Story: A Human Obstacle Course
28/05/2019 Duration: 04minKim Steinhardt recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on June 27, 2019. Steinhardt is a former administrative law judge turned environmental writer and marine wildlife photographer.
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Paul Erickson - Don’t Mess With Me: The Strange Lives of Venomous Sea Creatures
28/05/2019 Duration: 05minPaul Erickson recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on June 11, 2019. Erickson is a freelance writer and exhibit developer and works as an educator and aquarist on the Endeavour research vessel based in Salem, Massachusetts.
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Edward Barbier - The Water Paradox
28/05/2019 Duration: 04minEdward Barbier recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on May 30, 2019. Barbier is a professor in the department of economics at Colorado State University and a senior scholar in the School of Global Environmental Sustainability.