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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.a…

Aquarium of the Pacific


    • Jan 27, 2020 LATEST EPISODE
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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

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 27, 2020 4:38


    Nate Jaros and Briana Fodor - Coral Reef Restoration in Palau and the Bahamas

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 27, 2020 3:15


    Nate 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.

    David Bader - A Story About People and Place: Lessons Learned in Vaquita Conservation

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 27, 2020 5:10


    David 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.

    Josie Iselin - The Curious World of Seaweed

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 23, 2019 7:02


    Josie 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.

    Ellen Prager - Galápagos Wonders

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 23, 2019 5:33


    Ellen 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.

    Susan Gerros - Saving Birds in the Northern Mariana Islands

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 23, 2019 1:56


    Susan 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.

    Jason Smith - Metals for the Future

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 4, 2019 2:23


    Dr. Jason Smith recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on November 19, 2019. Dr. Smith is lead environmental scientist at DeepGreen Resources.

    Barbara Taylor - Vanishing Vaquitas

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 4, 2019 5:05


    Dr. 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.

    Danielle Eubank - One Artist, Five Oceans

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 4, 2019 5:35


    Danielle 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.

    Lee McIntyre - The Scientific Attitude

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 23, 2019 6:05


    Lee 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.

    Yi Chao - Underwater Drones to Discover the Unknowns

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 4, 2019 3:11


    Dr. Yi Chao recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on September 24, 2019. Dr. Chao is the founder and CEO of Seatrec.

    Chris Corpus - Land of the Blue Sky: How Mongolia’s Conservation Efforts Can Inform Ocean Conservation

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 4, 2019 6:48


    Chris 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.

    Ken Kurtis - Journey to the Island of Yap: Stone Money, Massive Manta Rays, and More

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 22, 2019 5:00


    Ken 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.

    Mike Bartick - Exotic Animals of the Night Sea

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 22, 2019 3:49


    Mike Bartick recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on August 14, 2019. Bartick is a field guide who conducts photo safaris, lectures, and seminars.

    Kathayoon Khalil - The People Problem: Including Social Sciences in Wildlife Conservation

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 22, 2019 3:06


    Kathayoon Khalil recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on August 8, 2019. Khalil is the principal evaluator for the Seattle Aquarium.

    Jennifer Brandon - “No, It’s Not Actually an Island”: What Studying the Great Pacific Garbage Patch Taught Me About Being a Science Communicator

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 28, 2019 6:00


    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.

    Shawn Maestretti and Leigh Adams - Climate Reality: Regeneration of the Landscape

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 28, 2019 2:46


    Shawn 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.

    Kim Steinhardt - The Sea Otter Survival Story: A Human Obstacle Course

    Play Episode Listen Later May 28, 2019 4:50


    Kim 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.

    Paul Erickson - Don’t Mess With Me: The Strange Lives of Venomous Sea Creatures

    Play Episode Listen Later May 28, 2019 5:53


    Paul 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.

    Edward Barbier - The Water Paradox

    Play Episode Listen Later May 28, 2019 4:26


    Edward 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.

    Manuel Pastor - State of Resistance: What California’s Dizzying Descent and Remarkable Resurgence Mean for America’s Future

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 25, 2019 6:58


    Dr. Manuel Pastor recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on March 26, 2019. Dr. Pastor is a professor of sociology and American studies and ethnicity at the University of Southern California (USC).

    Sam Muka - Stability in a Changing World: The Role of the Public Aquarium in 20th Century Marine Biological Research

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 25, 2019 5:10


    Sam Muka recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on March 19, 2019. Muka is an assistant professor in the Science and Technology Studies program at the Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, New Jersey.

    Joshua Goldstein - What Role Should Nuclear Power Play in Solving Climate Change?

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 25, 2019 6:42


    Joshua Goldstein recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on March 12, 2019. Goldstein is professor emeritus of international relations at American University in Washington, D.C.

    Sara Mandel - Penguin Conservation in South Africa

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 28, 2019 2:22


    Sara Mandel recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on February 28, 2019. Mandel is an aviculturist at the Aquarium of the Pacific.

    Jessica Whited - Studying Salamanders to Decipher Nature’s Instruction Manual for Regenerating Limbs

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 28, 2019 6:04


    Jessica Whited recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on February 19, 2019. Whited is an assistant professor of stem cell and regenerative biology at Harvard University.

    James Gesualdi - Shifting from Being Right to Doing Right for Animals

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 28, 2019 3:39


    James Gesualdi recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on February 13, 2019. Gesualdi is an animal welfare attorney based in New York.

    Katie Finch - The Great Lakes Piping Plover: Conservation through Collaboration

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 28, 2019 6:39


    Katie Finch recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on February 5, 2019. Finch is a mammalogist at the Aquarium of the Pacific.

    Curtis Marean - Survivors on the Edge of Land and Sea: How Coastal Life Shaped the Evolution of Our Species

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 19, 2018 5:44


    Curtis Marean recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on January 16, 2019. Marean is a professor at Arizona State University’s Institute of Human Origins and School of Human Evolution and Social Change.

    Jeremy Jackson - Breakpoint: Reckoning With America’s Environmental Crises

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 19, 2018 5:58


    Jeremy Jackson recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on January 9, 2019. Jackson is an emeritus professor at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography and a senior scientist emeritus at the Smithsonian Institution.

    Scott Nichols - Aquaculture Innovations: Doing More With Less

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 22, 2018 4:43


    Scott Nichols recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on November 13, 2018. Nichols is the founder of Food's Future, an aquaculture consultancy.

    William Cooper - The Butterflies of Iguazú Falls, Argentina

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 22, 2018 5:31


    William Cooper recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on November 6, 2018. Cooper is a former professor of civil and environmental engineering at the University of California, Irvine, and program director of environmental engineering at the National Science Foundation.

    Mike Mitchell - Reinventing the Devil Fish in Mexico

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 22, 2018 4:48


    Mike Mitchell recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on November 1, 2018. Mitchell is the co-founder and CEO of Acarí Fish.

    Greg Rau - Sea Change Needed in Managing the Ocean and the Planet

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 24, 2018 3:28


    Greg Rau recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on October 16, 2018. Rau is a senior research scientist at the Institute of Marine Sciences at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

    Anne Cohen - Where the Living Reefs Are: A Quest to Find the World’s Most Resilient Corals

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 24, 2018 6:50


    Anne Cohen recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on October 11, 2018. Cohen is an associate scientist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.

    Ester Quintana - The Urban Whale: How the Right Whale Population Ended Up on the Brink of Extinction

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 24, 2018 1:54


    Ester Quintana recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on October 2, 2018. Dr. Quintana is a research scientist at the Anderson Cabot Center for Ocean Life at the New England Aquarium.

    Rob Mortensen and Katherine Finch - Pacific Island Bird Conservation

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 19, 2018 2:52


    Rob Mortensen and Katherine Finch recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on September 19, 2018. Mortensen is the Aquarium's curator of mammals and birds and Finch is a mammalogist.

    Dr. Randi Rotjan - Science and Conservation in the Largest and Deepest World Heritage Site: A Natural Laboratory for Global Change

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 29, 2018 3:33


    Dr. Randi Rotjan recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on September 20, 2018. Dr. Rotjan is a research assistant professor at Boston University and co-chief scientist of the PIPA Conservation Trust.

    Andrew Policano - From Ivory Tower to Glass House: Strategies for Academic Leaders During Turbulent Times

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 29, 2018 6:41


    Andrew Policano recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on September 13, 2018. Policano is former dean and professor emeritus of economics and public policy at The Paul Merage School of Business, University of California, Irvine.

    Dr. Sandy Trautwein - Twenty Years of Achievements in Husbandry and Conservation

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 30, 2018 3:38


    Dr. Sandy Trautwein recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on August 30, 2018. Dr. Trautwein is the Aquarium's vice president of husbandry.

    James Danoff-Burg - Community-Based Conservation

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 30, 2018 6:28


    Dr. James Danoff-Burg recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on August 23, 2018. Dr. Danoff-Burg is the director of conservation at The Living Desert in Palm Desert, California.

    Drew Lohrer - Science Under the Ice: Dive with Coastal Marine Ecologists Under Sea Ice in Antarctica

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 30, 2018 3:14


    Dr. 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.

    Gregory Barord - Conservation in the Deep Sea: The Perilous Story of the Chambered Nautilus

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 30, 2018 2:30


    Gregory 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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