Guests: Dr. Denise Hardesty of Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) and Lisa Kaas BoyleLearn about the latest research about the accumulating marine debris problem in our global ocean. Do open ocean cleanup efforts effectively address the issue? On the second half of the show, learn about the new Straw law in Califor…

Part one: Dr. Craig Downs of the Haereticus Environmental Laboratory talks about the devastating findings about coral reef loss and the contribution of sunscreen chemicals to that loss, find out what these chemicals are and how to avoid them when protecting yourself from the sun. Part two: Marin/Sonoma beaches are among the finest in the world with…

Hear highlights from the 2018 Slowfish conference hosted by SlowFood San Francisco, bringing fishermen, buyers and chefs together to move towards "good, clean and fair fish" practices. On the 2nd half of the show hear about an amazing journey down the CA Coastal Trail with three UCSB Bren School of Environmental Science and Management graduates who…

Meet a few of the Heirs to our Oceans who are a rising tide of young leaders who are taking on ocean conservation through education and activism.By jennifer.stock@noaa.gov

Terry Sawyer, co-owner of Hog Island Oyster Company, board foundation member of the Tomales Bay Watershed Council and elected board member to the Marin Resource Conservation District talks about what projects are happening to address the health of Tomales Bay. As a stakeholder and oyster farmer, the health of the bay is of utmost importance, learn …

Harbor porpoise disappeared from San Francisco Bay in the 1960's and 70's and in recent years have returned heartily. Biologist Bill Keener from the Golden Gate Cetacean Society talks about their return and filmmakers Jim Sugar and Jessica Sison talk about the film The Return of the Harbor Porpoise to San Francisco Bay, a award winning film that do…

Craig Heberer recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on March 20, 2018. Heberer is deputy director of the Nature Conservancy’s Indo-Pacific Tuna Program.By aquariumofpacific@lbaop.org (Aquarium of the Pacific)

Lauren Harper recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on March 13, 2018. Harper is a senior aquarist in the Aquarium's Tropical Pacific Gallery.By aquariumofpacific@lbaop.org (Aquarium of the Pacific)

A.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.By aquariumofpacific@lbaop.org (Aquarium of the Pacific)

Hear some salty stories about sea foraging/fishing on the Northern CA coast as written about by expert sea forager/educator/fish monger Kirk Lombard.By jennifer.stock@noaa.gov

When water runs off of farmland and urban centers and flows into our streams and rivers, it is often chock-full of fertilizers and other nutrients. These massive loads of nutrients eventually end up in our coastal ocean, fueling a chain of events that can lead to hypoxic "dead zones" — areas along the sea floor where oxygen is so low it can no long…

Peter 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.By aquariumofpacific@lbaop.org (Aquarium of the Pacific)

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.By aquariumofpacific@lbaop.org (Aquarium of the Pacific)

Dr. 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.By aquariumofpacific@lbaop.org (Aquarium of the Pacific)

Geodesy is a science that covers the Earth itself. It's the reason we know where we are, and how we can make maps of where we are and where we want to go. In this episode, learn how this science with an unfamiliar name shapes much of what we do every day. Episode permanent link and show notes

Guest Dr. Aurora Torres of the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research talks about the growing crisis of sand mining. Overexploitation of global supplies of sand is damaging the environment, endangering communities, causing shortages and promoting violent conflict. Learn how an international team is looking at this issue through a syste…

Brian 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.By aquariumofpacific@lbaop.org (Aquarium of the Pacific)

JD Talasek recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on January 18, 2018. Talasek is the director of Cultural Programs of the National Academy of Sciences.By aquariumofpacific@lbaop.org (Aquarium of the Pacific)

Dr. 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.By aquariumofpacific@lbaop.org (Aquarium of the Pacific)

In celebration of Native American Heritage Month, our latest podcast highlights NOAA efforts in partnership with native communities in Alaska to restore and protect precious ocean resources. In this episode, we learn just how challenging the issue of marine debris can be in the vast wilderness of Alaska, how the NOAA Marine Debris program is workin…

Guest Cyndi Dawson a lead policy advisor on the Marine Protected Area Network in CA to the CA Ocean Protection Council, part of the CA Natural Resources Agency talks about the status of the entire state network of MPA’s, what baseline monitoring, education/outreach, enforcement and ongoing community partnerships are doing to help better manage and …

Kim 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.…

Judith 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.By aquariumofpacific@lbaop.org (Aquarium of the Pacific)

Nancy 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.By aquariumofpacific@lbaop.org (Aquarium of the Pacific)

Chris 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.By aquariumofpacific@lbaop.org (Aquarium of the Pacific)

Murray 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.By aquariumofpacific@lbaop.org (Aquarium of the Pacific)

Rebecca 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.By aquariumofpacific@lbaop.org (Aquarium of the Pacific)

Mark 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.By aquariumofpacific@lbaop.org (Aquarium of the Pacific)

Author Marah J. Hardt shares stories from her book Sex in the Sea: Our Intimate Connection with Sex- Changing Fish, Romantic Lobsters, Kinky Squid, and Other Salty Erotica of the Deep (book title)By jennifer.stock@noaa.gov

Ruth 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.By aquariumofpacific@lbaop.org (Aquarium of the Pacific)

Michael Prather recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on September 7, 2017. Prather is a University of California, Irvine, distinguished professor of Earth system science.By aquariumofpacific@lbaop.org (Aquarium of the Pacific)

It's time for a NOAA Ocean Podcast "Science Moment," where we sample the best segments from our past full-length podcasts. In this episode, learn about how coral reefs respond to stressful events like coral bleaching. Episode permanent link and show notes

Do you know the difference between a tide, a current, and a tidal current? Why (and how) do we study the motion of the ocean? Episode permanent link and show notes

Kerry Kriger recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on August 29, 2017. Dr. Kriger is the founder and executive director of SAVE THE FROGS!By aquariumofpacific@lbaop.org (Aquarium of the Pacific)

Alexandra 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.By aquariumofpacific@lbaop.org (Aquarium of the Pacific)

Dr. 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.By aquariumofpacific@lbaop.org (Aquarium of the Pacific)

It's time for a NOAA Ocean Podcast "Science Moment," where we sample the best segments from our past full-length podcasts. In this episode, learn about NOAA's historical map and chart collection of more than 35,000 scanned images. Episode permanent link and show notes

Agustín 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.By aquariumofpacific@lbaop.org (Aquarium of the Pacific)

Robert 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.…

Ecologists from Oikonos Ecosystem Knowledge partnered with a mix of collaborators including ceramacists to help breeding seabirds that were losing habitat to erosion. On the 2nd half of the show, learn about how the California Academy of Sciences is mobilizing coastal visitors to "bioblitz" and share observations with photographs and I naturalist t…

In our latest episode, we explore the history and work of NOAA's Commissioned Officer Corps--one of the seven uniformed services of the United States. NOAA Corps officers command NOAA's fleet of research and survey ships and also pilot NOAA's environmental data-gathering aircraft, including the agency's hurricane hunter planes. The NOAA Corps is ce…

Alex 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.By aquariumofpacific@lbaop.org (Aquarium of the Pacific)

Lee 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.By aquariumofpacific@lbaop.org (Aquarium of the Pacific)

It's time for a NOAA Ocean Podcast "Science Moment," where we sample the best segments from our past full-length podcasts. In this episode, learn about marine animal telemetry, used to help scientist understand the ocean and marine life better. Episode permanent link and show notes

"If it smells like food, and looks like food, it must be food right?" New research highlights how plastics may take on the smells of typical food that seabirds like to eat. Learn more about this recent research with marine ecologist and UC Davis graduate Dr. Matt Savoca.By jennifer.stock@noaa.gov

In today's NOAA Ocean Podcast, we talk about moving towards restoration at industrial waste sites. For more than a century, industrial activities have released hazardous chemicals and heavy metals into the environment. Both accidental spills and intentional discharges from chemical manufacturing, oil storage and transfer, ship building, and port op…

Jonathan White recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on May 30, 2107. White is a writer, sailor, and marine conservationist.By aquariumofpacific@lbaop.org (Aquarium of the Pacific)

Daniel Goldman recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on May 17, 2017. Goldman is a professor of physics at the Georgia Institute of Technology.By aquariumofpacific@lbaop.org (Aquarium of the Pacific)

Robert 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.By aquariumofpacific@lbaop.org (Aquarium of the Pacific)

It's time for a NOAA Ocean Podcast "Science Moment," where we sample the best segments from our past full-length podcasts. In this episode, hear about volunteering opportunities at one of our national marine sanctuary sites around the nation. Episode permanent link and show notes