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Lecture Archive 2013

by Aquarium of the Pacific

Through its year-round Guest Speaker Series, the Long Beach, California-based Aquarium of the Pacific helps visitors to learn about the most current and pressing issues related to the ocean and environment. 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 researchers, explorers, acclaimed authors, journalists, nature photographers, and more. These hour-long video podcasts present the lectures in full, including the speakers’ slideshow presentations.

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  1. Lecture Archive: Dr. Robert Ballard

    Lecture date: October 16, 2013. Dr. Robert Ballard is a former United States Navy officer and a professor of oceanography at the University of Rhode Island. He is most known for the discoveries of the wrecks of the RMS Titanic in 1985, the battleship Bismarck in 1989, and the aircraft carrier USS...

  2. Lecture Archive: Jesse Ausubel

    Lecture date: December 5, 2013. Jesse Ausubel is one of the founders of the Census of Marine Life, a ten-year scientific initiative to determine the diversity, distribution, and abundance of life in the ocean.

  3. Lecture Archive: Sandy Trautwein

    Lecture date: November 20, 2013. Sandy Trautwein, Aquarium of the Pacific curator of fishes and invertebrates, received her Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles, for her research on coral crabs.

  4. Lecture Archive: Laurence Madin

    Lecture date: November 12, 2013. Laurence Madin is the executive vice president, director of research, and a senior scientist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Woods Hole, Massachusetts.

  5. Lecture Archive: Bernard David

    Lecture date: November 6, 2013. Bernard David is a partner in Energy Management International, Inc. and a senior fellow at The Wharton School’s Initiative on Global Environmental Leadership.

  6. Lecture Archive: Samuel Wasser

    Lecture date: October 9, 2013. Dr. Samuel Wasser, director of the Center for Conservation Biology at the University of Washington, has developed non-invasive wildlife monitoring methods, including genetic, endocrine, and detection dog techniques.

  7. Lecture Archive: Shirley Pomponi

    Lecture date: September 24, 2013. Dr. Shirley Pomponi is a senior research professor at Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution at Florida Atlantic University.

  8. Lecture Archive: Michael Latz

    Lecture date: September 11, 2013. Michael Latz is the principal investigator at the Latz Laboratory at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, where he is also a senior lecturer.

  9. Lecture Archive: Edith Widder

    Lecture date: August 27, 2013. Edith Widder is a deep-sea explorer, oceanographer, marine biologist, and co-founder of the Ocean Research and Conservation Association.

  10. Lecture Archive: Bruce Robison

    Lecture date: August 13, 2013. Bruce Robison is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and a fellow of the California Academy of Sciences.

  11. Lecture Archive: Larry Mayer

    Lecture date: August 29, 2013. Larry Mayer discusses advances in using sonar to map the seafloor and the water column.

  12. Lecture Archive: Jim Hellemn

    Lecture date: April 23, 2013. Jim Hellemn's photography has appeared in National Geographic magazine and at the American Museum of Natural History.

  13. Lecture Archive: Jesus Reyes

    Lecture date: July 25, 2013. Jesus Reyes discusses pressures on California’s coastal aquatic environments derived from highly developed urban and residential zones and their diverse, extensive activities.

  14. Lecture Archive: Nicholas Fisher

    Lecture date: 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.

  15. Lecture Archive: Napoleon Chagnon

    Lecture date: April 8, 2013. Anthropologist Napoleon Chagnon discusses his recently published memoir, Noble Savages: My Life Among Two Dangerous Tribes—The Yanomamö and the Anthropologists.

  16. Lecture Archive: Dawn Wright

    Lecture date: July 16, 2013. New sophisticated technologies developed in the last ten to twenty years hold tremendous potential for mapping and interpreting the ocean in unprecedented detail. This talk focused on recent technical advances in mapping the deepest parts of our planet.

  17. Lecture Archive: Don Walsh

    Lecture date: July 9, 2013. Don Walsh spoke about his many experiences in exploring the deep ocean.

  18. Lecture Archive: Asila Ghoul

    Lecture date: June 25, 2013. Asila Ghoul discussed a recent study of the sensory systems of sea otters and how these amphibious animals are adapted for an aquatic lifestyle.

  19. Lecture Archive: Richard Ellis

    Lecture date: June 13, 2013. Richard Ellis discussed the broadbill swordfish, whose scientific name Xiphias gladius means “gladiator.”

  20. Lecture Archive: Eric Zahn

    Lecture date: June 6, 2013. Eric Zahn discussed the Los Cerritos Wetlands Conceptual Restoration Plan.

  21. Lecture Archive: Chris Lowe

    Lecture date: May 14, 2013. Rapid coastal development, water and air pollution, overfishing, bycatch, and habitat loss have all contributed to declines in shark populations. Chris Lowe, of California State University, Long Beach's Shark Lab, discussed federal and state agencies and regulations…

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  22. Lecture Archive: Leslie Harris

    Lecture date: 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 about the non-native plant and animal species attached to the debris...

  23. Lecture Archive: William Sargent

    Lecture date: April 2, 2013. William Sargent revealed compelling stories from his book Beach Wars.

  24. Lecture Archive: Jeanine Jones

    Lecture date: March 20, 2013. Jeanine Jones discussed the Colorado River basin's complex legal and institutional framework, together with efforts under way to mitigate the impacts of shortages, including innovative binational partnerships.

  25. Lecture Archive: Richard Theiss & Victor Douieb

    Lecture date: March 5, 2013. Underwater cinematographer Richard Theiss and sculptor Victor Douieb discussed their personal experiences with sharks, shark conservation, and their work documenting sharks.

  26. Lecture Archive: David Helvarg

    Lecture date: February 28, 2013. Author David Helvarg shared the history, culture, and changing nature of California’s coasts and ocean.

  27. Lecture Archive: Joel Primack & Nancy Ellen Abrams

    Lecture date: February 21, 2013. Philosopher Nancy Ellen Abrams and physics professor Joel Primack discussed a new vision of the universe based on dark matter, dark energy, and cosmic evolution set forth in their book, The New Universe and the Human Future: How a Shared Cosmology Could Transform...

  28. Lecture Archive: Charles Yarish

    Lecture date: February 7, 2013. Charles Yarish discussed the bioextraction of inorganic nutrients from coastal waters using native seaweeds.

  29. Lecture Archive: Aaron Quintanar

    Lecture date: January 29, 2013. Aaron Quintanar discussed the history of environmental impacts and lost conservation opportunities in Baja California and the Sea of Cortez from 1994 to 2008.

  30. Lecture Archive: Sylvia Earle

    Lecture date: June 18, 2013. Sylvia Earle is an oceanographer, explorer, author, and lecturer with experience as a field research scientist. In her lecture she shares stories of exploration and discovery.

  31. Lecture Archive: Gerrie Schipske

    Lecture date: May 28, 2013. Gerrie Schipske presented a lecture discussing her book, Early Long Beach, and the natural assets, the people, and the events that shaped the first fifty years of history in Long Beach, California, her native city.

  32. Lecture Archive: Andrew Policano

    Lecture date: January 16, 2013. Andrew Policano discussed his book, Public No More: A New Path to Excellence for America’s Public Universities.

  33. Lecture Archive: Dr. William Cooper

    Lecture date: January 8, 2013. Learn about endangered Yellow-Eyed Penguins native to New Zealand and nearby islands.

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Through its year-round Guest Speaker Series, the Long Beach, California-based Aquarium of the Pacific helps visitors to learn about the most current and pressing issues related to the ocean and environment. 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 researchers, explorers, acclaimed authors, journalists, nature photographers, and more. These hour-long video podcasts present the lectures in full, including the speakers’ slideshow presentations.

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