Aquarium of the Pacific AquaCast
108 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 4 years ago - ★★★★ - 6 ratingsDive 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
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Episodes
Andrew Reeves - Unwitting Helpers: The Strange, True Story of How Silent Spring and the Clean Water Act Gave Rise to Asian Carp in America
January 27, 2020 23:28 - 4 minutes - 4.35 MBAndrew Reeves recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on February 26, 2020. Reeves is an author and environmental journalist.
Nate Jaros and Briana Fodor - Coral Reef Restoration in Palau and the Bahamas
January 27, 2020 23:26 - 3 minutes - 3.06 MBNate 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
January 27, 2020 23:20 - 5 minutes - 4.77 MBDavid 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
December 24, 2019 01:26 - 7 minutes - 9.71 MBJosie 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
December 24, 2019 01:23 - 5 minutes - 5.12 MBEllen 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
December 24, 2019 01:21 - 1 minute - 1.82 MBSusan 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
November 04, 2019 23:19 - 2 minutes - 3.31 MBDr. 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
November 04, 2019 23:16 - 5 minutes - 4.68 MBDr. 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
November 04, 2019 23:10 - 5 minutes - 7.72 MBDanielle 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
September 24, 2019 00:56 - 6 minutes - 8.37 MBLee 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
September 04, 2019 18:15 - 3 minutes - 4.43 MBDr. 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
September 04, 2019 18:14 - 6 minutes - 9.39 MBChris 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
July 22, 2019 23:19 - 5 minutes - 6.89 MBKen 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
July 22, 2019 23:16 - 3 minutes - 5.27 MBMike 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
July 22, 2019 23:12 - 3 minutes - 4.29 MBKathayoon 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
June 28, 2019 20:03 - 6 minutes - 8.28 MBJennifer 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
June 28, 2019 20:01 - 2 minutes - 3.85 MBShawn 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
May 28, 2019 23:56 - 4 minutes - 6.68 MBKim 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
May 28, 2019 23:55 - 5 minutes - 8.12 MBPaul 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
May 28, 2019 23:52 - 4 minutes - 6.13 MBEdward 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
February 25, 2019 23:15 - 6 minutes - 6.42 MBDr. 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
February 25, 2019 23:14 - 5 minutes - 4.75 MBSam 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?
February 25, 2019 23:11 - 6 minutes - 6.17 MBJoshua 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
January 28, 2019 21:54 - 2 minutes - 3.29 MBSara 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
January 28, 2019 21:52 - 6 minutes - 8.37 MBJessica 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
January 28, 2019 21:47 - 3 minutes - 5.05 MBJames 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
January 28, 2019 21:19 - 6 minutes - 9.16 MBKatie 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
December 20, 2018 00:14 - 5 minutes - 7.91 MBCurtis 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
December 20, 2018 00:11 - 5 minutes - 8.24 MBJeremy 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
October 22, 2018 23:08 - 4 minutes - 6.5 MBScott 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
October 22, 2018 23:05 - 5 minutes - 7.58 MBWilliam 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
October 22, 2018 23:03 - 4 minutes - 6.61 MBMike 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
September 24, 2018 23:19 - 3 minutes - 4.79 MBGreg 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
September 24, 2018 23:15 - 6 minutes - 9.39 MBAnne 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
September 24, 2018 23:12 - 1 minute - 2.62 MBEster 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
September 19, 2018 20:28 - 2 minutes - 3.97 MBRob 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
August 30, 2018 00:13 - 3 minutes - 4.89 MBDr. 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
August 30, 2018 00:09 - 6 minutes - 9.19 MBAndrew 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
July 30, 2018 20:34 - 3 minutes - 4.99 MBDr. 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
July 30, 2018 20:33 - 6 minutes - 8.89 MBDr. 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
July 30, 2018 20:31 - 3 minutes - 4.44 MBDr. 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
July 30, 2018 20:29 - 2 minutes - 3.45 MBGregory 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.
John Fraser - Conservation Momentum
July 30, 2018 20:26 - 3 minutes - 5.03 MBJohn 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.
Mike Bartick - Blackwater Diving: Exploring the Night Sea
June 22, 2018 21:52 - 5 minutes - 6.97 MBMike Bartick recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on July 31, 2018. Bartick is an avid diver and photographer whose work concentrates on the macro fauna of the Verde Island Pass located near Anilao, Philippines.
Tapan Pathak - Climate Change and California’s Agriculture
June 22, 2018 21:50 - 5 minutes - 7.61 MBTapan 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.
Tyler Phelps - Deep Beneath the Sea: Exploring the Twilight Zone
June 22, 2018 21:48 - 3 minutes - 5.01 MBTyler 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.
Holly Buck - Climate Geoengineering: What Could It Mean for Human and Ocean Life?
May 29, 2018 22:55 - 3 minutes - 5.43 MBHolly 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.
Dominique Rissolo - Submerged Ice Age America: The View from Yucatan
May 29, 2018 22:26 - 6 minutes - 4.88 MBDominique 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.
Albert George - The Resilience Imperative
May 29, 2018 22:09 - 3 minutes - 5.14 MBAlbert George recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on June 7, 2018. George is the director of conservation at the South Carolina Aquarium.
Danna Staaf - Cephalopods are the New Dinosaurs: A Squid’s-Eye View of the History of Life
April 18, 2018 21:41 - 4 minutes - 4.17 MBDanna 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.