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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Judith Kildow - The New Blue Economy: A Revolution in our Relationship with the Oceans
27/10/2017 Duration: 06minJudith Kildow recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on November 14, 2017. She is founder and director of the National Ocean Economics Program (NOEP) at the Center for the Blue Economy at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey, California.
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Nancy Knowlton - From Doom & Gloom to #OceanOptimism: Success Stories in Marine Conservation
27/10/2017 Duration: 04minNancy Knowlton recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on November 9, 2017. Knowlton is the Sant Chair for Marine Science at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History and co-host of the Earth Optimism Summit in Washington, D.C.
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Chris Lowe - Beach Babies: White Shark Nurseries of the Northeast Pacific
27/10/2017 Duration: 03minChris Lowe recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on November 2, 2017. Lowe is a professor of marine biology and director of the Shark Lab at California State University, Long Beach.
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Murray Fisher - Billion Oyster Project
19/09/2017 Duration: 06minMurray Fisher recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on October 19, 2017. Fisher is the executive director of the New York Harbor Foundation and founder of the New York Harbor School.
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Rebecca Tarvin - Why Don’t Frogs Poison Themselves?
19/09/2017 Duration: 04minRebecca Tarvin recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on October 12, 2017. Tarvin is a Ph.D. student in the Evolution, Ecology, and Behavior program at the University of Texas at Austin. She has studied frogs in Ecuador and Colombia and studies in the evolution of toxicity in poison frogs.
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Mark Martinez - The Water-Energy Nexus: Challenges and Opportunities for California
11/09/2017 Duration: 04minMark Martinez recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on April 27, 2017. Martinez is a senior portfolio manager for Southern California Edison and Emerging Markets and Technology program lead.
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Ruth Gates - The Wonderful World of Corals: Harnessing Basic Science to Address an Ecological Crisis
29/08/2017 Duration: 05minRuth Gates recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on September 19, 2017. Dr. Gates is the director of and a researcher at the Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology, University of Hawaii at Manoa.
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Michael Prather - Reporting from the Front Line: Where Science Meets Government
29/08/2017 Duration: 11minMichael Prather recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on September 7, 2017. Prather is a University of California, Irvine, distinguished professor of Earth system science.
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Kerry Kriger - SAVE THE FROGS! Translating Science Into Action
24/07/2017 Duration: 05minKerry Kriger recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on August 29, 2017. Dr. Kriger is the founder and executive director of SAVE THE FROGS!
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Alexandra Lawlor - Save the White Abalone: Aquarium of the Pacific’s Conservation Efforts
24/07/2017 Duration: 01minAlexandra Lawlor recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on August 23, 2017. Lawlor has been on staff at the Aquarium since 2015 and is responsible for exhibits in the Southern California/Baja Gallery.
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Dr. Gregory Stone - Soul of the Sea in the Age of the Algorithm
24/07/2017 Duration: 07minDr. Gregory Stone recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on August 3, 2017. Dr. Stone was a co-founder of the Ocean Health Index and serves on the boards of Pacific Rising and Aquaspark. He also was the science advisor to the nation of Kiribati for the United Nations Paris climate agreement.
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Agustín Fuentes - The Creative Spark: Imagination and Collaboration in Human Evolution
27/06/2017 Duration: 02minAgustín Fuentes recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on July 26, 2017. Fuentes is a professor and chair of anthropology at the University of Notre Dame. He is also a blogger for Psychology Today and The Huffington Post.
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Robert Schallmann - The Department of Defense and Wildlife Management: A Tale of Two Missions
26/06/2017 Duration: 03minRobert Schallmann recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on July 18, 2017. Schallmann has served as the conservation program manager at Naval Weapons Station Seal Beach since 2003 and is responsible for overseeing the natural resources program, including the management of several endangered, threatened, and at-risk species.
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Alex Hall - Climate Change, the Sierra Nevada, and Our Water Future
22/05/2017 Duration: 03minAlex Hall recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on June 22, 2017. Dr. Hall is a professor in the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences and Institute of the Environment and Sustainability and director of the Center for Climate Science at UCLA.
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Lee Kats - Hollywood Amphibians: A Movie Star’s Life
22/05/2017 Duration: 04minLee Kats recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on June 8, 2017. For over twenty-five years Dr. Lee Kats and his students at Pepperdine University have studied the amphibians that inhabit streams and wetlands around Los Angeles.
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Jonathan White - Tides: The Science and Spirit of the Ocean
24/04/2017 Duration: 03minJonathan White recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on May 30, 2107. White is a writer, sailor, and marine conservationist.
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Daniel Goldman - The Physics of Mudskippers and Other Land Locomotors
24/04/2017 Duration: 06minDaniel Goldman recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on May 17, 2017. Goldman is a professor of physics at the Georgia Institute of Technology.
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Robert Pomeroy - Might As Well Go Surfing: Biomass Utilization in a World with Oil at $50 a Barrel
24/04/2017 Duration: 03minRobert Pomeroy recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on May 2, 2107. Pomeroy is a professor of chemistry and biochemistry at the University of California, San Diego.
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Christine Whitcraft - Wetlands in a Time of Change
27/02/2017 Duration: 02minChristine Whitcraft recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on March 22, 2017. Whitcraft is an associate professor in the biology department at California State University, Long Beach, and serves as president of Friends of Colorado Lagoon and on the board of the Bolsa Chica Conservancy.
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Andrew Pershing - Climate Change and Ecosystems of the Gulf of Maine: What Does the Future Hold?
27/02/2017Andrew Pershing recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on March 15, 2017. Pershing is chief scientific officer at the Gulf of Maine Research Institute and runs the Ecosystem Modeling Lab.