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Get in-depth information about current research in the field of oceanography in these short video podcasts from the Aquarium of the Pacific. This Long Beach, California-based institution hosts visiting lecturers in its Guest Speaker Series throughout the year. These experts share stories from the field, new insights about ocean science and predictions for the future, and knowledge they have gathered about the ocean and its inhabitants over years of study. Speakers include university research ...
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Get in-depth information about current research in the field of oceanography in these short video podcasts from the Aquarium of the Pacific. This Long Beach, California-based institution hosts visiting lecturers in its Guest Speaker Series throughout the year. These experts share stories from the field, new insights about ocean science and predictions for the future, and knowledge they have gathered about the ocean and its inhabitants over years of study. Speakers include university research ...
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Dr. Jason Smith recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on November 19, 2019. Dr. Smith is lead environmental scientist at DeepGreen Resources.Aquarium of the Pacific
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Dr. Yi Chao recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on September 24, 2019. Dr. Chao is the founder and CEO of Seatrec.Aquarium of the Pacific
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Jennifer 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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Dominique 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.Aquarium of the Pacific
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Katelyn 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.Aquarium of the Pacific
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Jonathan White recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on May 30, 2107. White is a writer, sailor, and marine conservationist.Aquarium of the Pacific
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The Aquacast was recorded at the Aquarium on May 25, 2017. Peter Kareiva and Jerry Schubel moderated a panel discussion on aquaculture.Aquarium of the Pacific
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Patrick Smith recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on March 9, 2017. Smith is a U.S. Coast Guard-licensed captain, commercial and scientific diver, and co-author of Shipwrecks of Southern California.Aquarium of the Pacific
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Malcolm Bowman recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on January 26, 2017. Bowman is an oceanographer, engineer, and professor of oceanography at State University of New York, Stony Brook.Aquarium of the Pacific
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Scott Noakes recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on June 29, 2016. Noakes is a research scientist at the University of Georgia’s Center for Applied Isotope Studies (CAIS).Aquarium of the Pacific
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Dr. Stephen Weisberg recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on May 24, 2016. Dr. Weisberg is executive director of the Southern California Coastal Water Research Project Authority.Aquarium of the Pacific
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Patrick Smith recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on April 28, 2016. Smith is a U.S. Coast Guard-licensed captain, commercial and scientific diver, and co-author of Shipwrecks of Southern California.Aquarium of the Pacific
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Karl Huggins recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on February 23, 2016. Huggins has been the director of the Catalina Hyperbaric Chamber Facility at the USC Wrigley Marine Science Center on Catalina Island since 1992.Aquarium of the Pacific
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Chris Welsh recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on February 2, 2016. Welsh is the owner and chief pilot of Deep Sub.Aquarium of the Pacific
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Derek Smith recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on January 28, 2016. Smith is a researcher in the University of Washington’s department of biology and a former diving safety officer for the Aquarium of the Pacific.Aquarium of the Pacific
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In this episode of Coastal Conversations, Aquarium President and CEO Jerry Schubel talks with Dr. Alan Blumberg, who has been working on coastal resiliency in New York and New Jersey with efforts to prepare for extreme weather, like Hurricane Sandy in 2012.Aquarium of the Pacific
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Alan Blumberg recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on July 21, 2015. Blumberg is the George Meade Bond Professor of Ocean Engineering and director of the Davidson Laboratory at Stevens Institute of Technology.Aquarium of the Pacific
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Reinhard Flick recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on July 1, 2015. Flick is a scientist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography.Aquarium of the Pacific
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Dan Cayan recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on June 24, 2015. Cayan is a research meteorologist with the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego, and a researcher with the U.S. Geological Survey. He heads the California Nevada Applications Program RISA team and has played a lead role in the California Cli…
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Rick Spinrad recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on March 3, 2015. Spinrad is chief scientist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.Aquarium of the Pacific
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Ken Buesseler recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on March 11, 2015. Buesseler is a senior scientist in marine chemistry and geochemistry at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.Aquarium of the Pacific
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Emily Yam recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on January 22, 2015. Yam is the Aquarium’s science interpretation manager.Aquarium of the Pacific
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Lincoln Paine recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on September 24, 2014. He discussed humankind's relationship to the ocean throughout history and his book, The Sea and Civilization: A Maritime History of the World.Aquarium of the Pacific
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The Aquarium hosted a live webcast on November 13, 2014, with experts from NOAA and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to discuss the El Niño phenomenon and predictions for this winter's rainy season.Aquarium of the Pacific
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Father and son co-authors Stephen and Anthony Palumbi recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on June 12, 2014. They discuss the issues addressed in their book, The Extreme Life of the Sea.Aquarium of the Pacific
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Dan Fornari recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on March 25, 2014. Fornari is a senior scientist in geology and geophysics at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.Aquarium of the Pacific
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John Delaney recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on October 3, 2013. Delaney is a professor of oceanography at the University of Washington, principal investigator and director of the Regional Scale Nodes Program, and the Jerome M. Paros Endowed Chair in Sensor Networks.Aquarium of the Pacific
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Larry Mayer recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on August 29, 2013. Larry Mayer is a professor and the director of the Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping at the University of New Hampshire.Aquarium of the Pacific
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Aquacast recorded on July 16, 2013. Dawn Wright discusses new sophisticated technologies that have been developed in the last ten to twenty years that hold tremendous potential for mapping and interpreting the ocean in unprecedented detail.Aquarium of the Pacific
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Aquacast recorded on June 19, 2013. Nicholas Fisher discusses the release of long-lived radionuclides from the Fukushima nuclear power plant in Japan into the Pacific and the subsequent bioaccumulation of these contaminants in diverse marine biota.Aquarium of the Pacific
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Aquacast recorded at the Aquarium on May 7, 2013. After the earthquake and resulting tsunami that struck Japan in 2010, ocean currents and wind brought debris across the Pacific Ocean to the shores of the Pacific Northwest of the United States. Learn from Leslie Harris about the non-native plant and animal species attached to the debris that hitche…
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Aquacast recorded on April 2, 2013. William Sargent spoke about Atlantic coast storms and shared compelling stories from his book Beach Wars.Aquarium of the Pacific
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California recently completed the designation of a new network of marine protected areas (MPAs) along its 800-mile coastline. The process has been heralded as a landmark event in marine resource management and conservation.Aquarium of the Pacific
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In 1997 Captain Charles Moore discovered plastic in the ocean in the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre. Dubbed the Great North Pacific Garbage Patch, this estimated three million tons of plastic debris is still growing in the Northeast Pacific between Hawaii and the West Coast. He spoke at the Aquarium on March 6, 2012.…
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In his lecture on February 7, 2012, Bruce Perry covered the evolution of the Continental Borderland and its effects on the current circulation, wave action, and biology of the Southern California Bight (the Southern California coast running from Point Conception to Mexico). Perry holds a BS and MS in geology, teaches oceanography and geology at loc…
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In his talk with Jeanine Jones on January 25, 2012, Jackson discussed recent scientific discoveries are revealing new information about atmospheric rivers—the concentrated streams of moisture that originate over the Pacific Ocean and cause major winter floods in California. Jackson is the meteorologist in charge for the National Weather Service ser…
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In her talk with Mark Jackson on January 25, 2012, Jones discussed recent scientific discoveries are revealing new information about atmospheric rivers—the concentrated streams of moisture that originate over the Pacific Ocean and cause major winter floods in California. Jones is the interstate resources manager for the California Department of Wat…
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Dr. Richard Feely, who spoke on May 23, 2011, is a senior scientist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory in Seattle. He also holds an affiliate full professor faculty position at the University of Washington’s School of Oceanography. His major research areas are carbon cycling in the ocean a…
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Dr. James Lindholm, who spoke at the Aquarium on April 27, 2011, is the James W. Rote Distinguished Professor of Marine Science and Policy and the founder and director of the Institute for Applied Marine Ecology at California State University, Monterey Bay. His research interests include the landscape ecology of fishes, the recovery of seafloor hab…
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Peter Ward, who spoke at the Aquarium about the impacts of climate change on June 16, 2011, is a professor of biology and space sciences at the University of Washington in Seattle. His books include "Rare Earth: Why Complex Life is Uncommon in the Universe" and "The Medea Hypothesis: Is Life on Earth Ultimately Self-Destructive"?…
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Clark Snodgrass, who spoke at the Aquarium on July 6, 2011, has twenty-five years of experience in aerospace systems engineering and development spanning numerous space programs at Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems. He currently serves as the Northrop Grumman director of System Engineering, Integration, Test and Operations for the National Polar-o…
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Dr. Alexander "Sandy" MacDonald, the inventor of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Science on a Sphere, spoke at the Aquarium on May 31, 2011. He is the deputy assistant administrator for Laboratories and Cooperative Institutes for the NOAA Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research. He also serves as director of the Earth Syste…
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Dr. Sager is a professor of oceanography at Texas A and M University. His current research efforts are concentrated on geophysical studies of hotspots and ocean plateaus and how they formed and evolved, as well as magnetic anomaly interpretations and the geomagnetic polarity reversal time scale.Aquarium of the Pacific
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Dr. Parker is presently a visiting professor at the Center for Maritime Systems at the Stevens Institute of Technology and is the former chief scientist of the National Ocean Service at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. He has a Ph.D. in physical oceanography from The Johns Hopkins University, a master’s degree in physical oceano…
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Richard Somerville is a theoretical meteorologist and distinguished professor emeritus at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego. He earned his Ph.D from New York University and has received awards for both his research and his popular book, The Forgiving Air: Understanding Environmental Change.…
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Curtis Ebbesmeyer holds a Ph.D. in oceanography from the University of Washington and is regarded as an expert on ocean currents and floating objects. Each year, Curt presents a booth and talks at beachcomber fairs in Alaska, Florida, and Washington.Aquarium of the Pacific
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Henry Pollack is professor emeritus of geophysics in the department of geological sciences at the University of Michigan. His current research focuses on the record of climate change as recorded by the temperatures in the rocks beneath the Earth’s surface. Pollack authored the book 'Uncertain Science...Uncertain World', and his newest book is title…
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A prolific researcher, teacher and author, Dr. Broecker has published over 400 scientific articles and is the author or coauthor of several textbooks. His most recent book is The Great Ocean Conveyor: Discovering the Trigger for Abrupt Climate Change.Aquarium of the Pacific
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Sanchirico is a professor of environmental science and policy at the University of California, Davis and a nonresident fellow of Resources for the Future in Washington DC, non-profit environmental policy think-tank.He received his Ph.D. in agricultural and resource economics from the University of California, Davis.…
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