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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Drew Lohrer - Science Under the Ice: Dive with Coastal Marine Ecologists Under Sea Ice in Antarctica
30/07/2018 Duration: 03minDr. Drew Lohrer recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on August 16, 2018. He is a principal marine ecologist at the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research in New Zealand.
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Gregory Barord - Conservation in the Deep Sea: The Perilous Story of the Chambered Nautilus
30/07/2018 Duration: 02minGregory Barord recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on August 14, 2018. Barord is a conservation biologist for Save the Nautilus and the marine biology instructor for Des Moines Public Schools’ Central Campus.
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John Fraser - Conservation Momentum
30/07/2018 Duration: 03minJohn Fraser recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on August 7, 2018. Fraser is president and CEO of NewKnowledge, a social science think tank aimed at building healthy democracy and a thriving biosphere.
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Tapan Pathak - Climate Change and California’s Agriculture
22/06/2018 Duration: 05minTapan Pathak recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on July 26, 2018. Pathak serves as cooperative extension specialist in climate adaptation in agriculture at the University of California Division of Agriculture and Resources and UC Merced.
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Tyler Phelps - Deep Beneath the Sea: Exploring the Twilight Zone
22/06/2018 Duration: 03minTyler Phelps recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on July 10, 2018. Phelps is a graduate student with the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco pursuing mesophotic fish ecology research as part of their global Hope for Reefs Initiative.
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Holly Buck - Climate Geoengineering: What Could It Mean for Human and Ocean Life?
29/05/2018 Duration: 03minHolly Buck recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on June 28, 2018. Buck is a researcher at UCLA’s Institute of the Environment and Sustainability. She completed a Ph.D. on environmental sociology and emerging technologies at Cornell University.
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Dominique Rissolo - Submerged Ice Age America: The View from Yucatan
29/05/2018 Duration: 06minDominique Rissolo recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on June 12, 2018. Rissolo is an assistant researcher at the University of California, San Diego’s Qualcomm Institute.
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Albert George - The Resilience Imperative
29/05/2018 Duration: 03minAlbert George recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on June 7, 2018. George is the director of conservation at the South Carolina Aquarium.
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Danna Staaf - Cephalopods are the New Dinosaurs: A Squid’s-Eye View of the History of Life
18/04/2018 Duration: 04minDanna Staaf recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on May 15, 2018. She is a science writer and educator and the author of Squid Empire: The Rise and Fall of the Cephalopods.
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Daniel Cartamil - Baja’s Wild Side: Shark Research and Conservation Photography in Baja California
18/04/2018 Duration: 04minDaniel Cartamil recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on May 9, 2018. He is a marine biologist and shark expert at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, California.
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Craig Heberer - Bites, Cameras, Action: Tracing Tuna Catch, Hook to Dock
03/03/2018 Duration: 04minCraig Heberer recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on March 20, 2018. Heberer is deputy director of the Nature Conservancy’s Indo-Pacific Tuna Program.
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Lauren Harper - Saving Endangered Leatherback Sea Turtles: An Expedition to Costa Rica
03/03/2018 Duration: 05minLauren Harper recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on March 13, 2018. Harper is a senior aquarist in the Aquarium's Tropical Pacific Gallery.
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A.G. Kawamura - Envisioning an Agricultural Renaissance: Resilient Food Systems
03/03/2018 Duration: 06minA.G. Kawamura recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on March 6, 2018. Kawamura is a third generation fruit and vegetable grower and shipper and owner of Orange County Produce. He is the former Secretary of the California Department of Food and Agriculture.
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Peter Moyle - Reconciling California’s Delta: Water for Fish and People
22/01/2018 Duration: 05minPeter Moyle recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on February 27, 2018. Moyle is distinguished professor emeritus in the Department of Wildlife, Fish, and Conservation Biology and associate director of the Center for Watershed Sciences at the University of California, Davis.
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Katelyn Sullivan - Deep-Sea Exploration Aboard the Nautilus
22/01/2018 Duration: 02minKatelyn Sullivan recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on February 13, 2018. Sullivan is the Aquarium's education coordinator and was selected as a 2017 AltaSea Nautilus Ambassador.
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Dr. William Cooper - Earth, Wind, Fire, and Water
22/01/2018 Duration: 07minDr. William Cooper recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on February 12, 2018. Dr. Cooper is a professor of civil and environmental engineering and director of the Urban Water Research Center at the University of California, Irvine.
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Brian Fagan - The Big Fish Come to Land: An Archaeologist Explores the History of Fishing
02/01/2018 Duration: 18minBrian Fagan recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on January 31, 2018. Fagan is the author of Fishing: How the Sea Fed Civilization, Elixir: A History of Water and Humankind, and Beyond the Blue Horizon: How the Earliest Mariners Unlocked the Secrets of the Ocean.
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J.D. Talasek - Integrating Art and Science: Shifting Perspectives to Inspire Change
02/01/2018 Duration: 04minJD Talasek recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on January 18, 2018. Talasek is the director of Cultural Programs of the National Academy of Sciences.
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Dr. Thomas White - An Ethicist’s View of Climate Change
02/01/2018 Duration: 07minDr. Thomas White recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on January 16, 2018. Dr. White is the Conrad N. Hilton Chair of Business Ethics and the director of the Center for Ethics and Business at Loyola Marymount University.
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Kim Steinhardt and Gary Griggs - The Edge: The Pressured Past and Precarious Future of California’s Coast
27/10/2017 Duration: 03minKim Steinhardt and Gary Griggs recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on November 30, 2017. Griggs is a Distinguished Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and Steinhardt is a former state Administrative Law Judge and litigator, as well as a long-time conservationist and public interest advocate.