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Ocean Science Radio

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Ocean Science Radio is a joint project between Andrew Kornblatt, founder and host of the Online Ocean Symposium, and Naomi Frances Farabaugh of FIU.Previous co-host was Samantha Wishnak, Digital Media Coordinator at Ocean Exploration Trust. The program will focus on and highlight the latest and greatest ocean science stories that the world has to offer.

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Episodes

  1. Better PR for Sharks - Jasmin Graham and the Rise of Minorities in Shark Sciences

    In 2019, there was exactly one Black member of the American Elasmobranch Society — the leading U.S. society for shark and ray researchers — out of 500. Then a single tweet during Black Birders Week changed everything. Join us as we sit down with Jasmin Graham, President and CEO of Minorities in...

  2. Ten Million Whales - Inside the Whale Necropolis

    Nearly seven kilometers beneath the Indian Ocean, a team of scientists went looking for hydrothermal vents — and found something else entirely. What they mistook, at first glance, for smoking chimneys turned out to be whale skulls: the opening of a necropolis stretching 1,200 kilometers across…

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  3. Saving Ocean Sensors - The Fight Over the Ocean Observatories Initiative

    Save Ocean Sensors: The Fight Over the Ocean Observatories Initiative A $386 million network of nearly 900 ocean sensors stretching across five sites from Oregon to Alaska to Greenland was being quietly dismantled, with no warning to Congress and no explanation to the public. In this episode, we...

  4. One Team. One Chance. Diving for What Remains.

    Featuring Alex Rose, Science Editor, Ocean Geographic Magazine & Co-Founder, Sea Americas Alex Rose has been part of the Ocean Science Radio family for nearly a decade — you may remember her reporting live from MACNA, the Marine Aquarium Conference of North America, back in 2016. Today she's…

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  5. July Minisode - Updates, Email, and Shark Awareness Day

    Welcome to the miniepisode where we give you a few updates for the month! Got an idea for the podcast? Want to ask a question? Email us at [email protected].

  6. Blue Nature Alliance and the Quest to Protect 7 Million Square Miles of the Ocean

    We speak with Angelo O'Connor Villagomez - senior officer of Marine Protection at Pew Charitable Trusts, Laure Katz - Senior Director of Blue Nature at Conservation International, Ashland and Philippe Cousteau of Antarctic 2020, and Susana Waqainabete-Tuisese - Senior Director Pacific Region at...

  7. National Science Foundation's Networked Blue Economy Ocean Accelerator

    The team sits down with Douglas Mughan - the NSF office head for the convergence accelerator, Chris Sanford - a program director with the accelerator, and Clea Harrelson - 2021 Knauss Marine policy fellow, to talk about what the National Science Foundation is hoping to achieve with this new...

  8. Ocean Policy Under the Biden Administration and Why There is Room to Hope

    Over the last four years, ocean policy in the United States shifted from one focusing on stewardship, science, and conservation, to resource exploitation and defense. By the end of 2020, marine protected areas had been opened up for fishing, restrictions on oil extraction practices were relaxed,...

  9. Ocean Lovin' 2020 - Sea Angels and Hagfish

    In the final episode of 2020's Ocean Lovin' Series, Andrew Kornblatt, Frances Farabaugh, and Skylar Bayer speak with marine biologist and photographer Alexander Semenov and Associate Professor of Biology at College of Charleston, Andrew Clark to talk about sex lives of Sea Angels and Hagfish.

  10. Ocean Lovin 2020 - Freshwater Mussels

    It's Valentines Day and with it comes our next installment focusing on reproduction in the ocean. Join us this time as we highlight the insane "fishing" schemes of freshwater mussels. From specialized lures to suicide larvae bombs the freshwater mussel has found unique ways to spread their...

  11. Challenge of the Deep - the 60th Anniversary of Don Walsh's Trip to the Mariana Trench

    60 years ago today the Trieste made the historic trip to be the first manned vehicle to go to the deepest part of the ocean and come back up again. Join the team as we chat with Don Walsh who made the incredible journey. Over 35,000 feet below the surface of the ocean the historic voyage came…

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  12. Why DeOxygenation Terrifies Andrew to the Core

    Hitting the pages of the SROCC (the last IPCC Report), the UN Climate Summit and even the pages of the New York Times, the rising loss of oxygen in our ocean due to heat and chemistry change has huge implications for our climate and our food from the ocean. Ocean Science Radio sits down with Dr....

  13. Swimming in an Ocean of Plastics and Hauling it Out

    Plastics have contaminated our oceans, from microplastic to big honking pieces. Vicky and Andrew chat with someone who swam across the ocean to draw awareness to the issue and a woman who is launching a (hopefully) growing effort to remove unclaimed nets from the Pacific. We spoke with Ben…

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  14. A Review of the Ocean Climate Report - SROCC Live Discussion!

    A very special report was recently released by the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change on the "Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate." We bring together a panel of scientists to find out, what the heck is happening in the ocean? What is this collection of over 1000 pages of…

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  15. Live reddit AMA with Ocean Planet Conference!

    Andrew Kornblatt sits down with Ocean Planet Conference organizer Dr. Armin Ellis and conference speaker Dr. Dominic D’Agostino for a reddit AMA.

  16. Ocean Lovin' 2 - A Pycnogonid and Leech Love Story

    The team explores the reproduction cycle of sea spiders, leeches, and a love story. With Vicky Vasquez, Andrew Kornblatt, Skylar Baer interviewing Dr. Bonnie Bain & Fred Govedich

  17. Ocean Lovin' 2 - Anglers and Bdelloids

    Dive into the strange world of the gonad collecting Angler fish and the possibly sexless Bdelloid Rotifers. The Ocean Science Radio team, again joined by Skylar Bayer, interview Dr. Chris Wilson - a research fellow in evolutionary biology at Imperial College London- and Dr. Matt Davis, an…

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  18. Ocean Lovin' 2 - Jellies and Larvaceans

    The team explores the reproductive cycle of Jellyfish, takes a deep dive into the Immortal Turritopsis Dohrnii, and gets their minds blown with the explosive sex of Larvaceans. Joined by Skylar Bayer, the team speaks with Dr. Rebecca R Helm Assistant professor at the University of North Carolina,...

  19. Ocean Lovin' 2 - Clownfish

    In the second of the Ocean Lovin' 2 series, the Ocean Science Radio team is joined again by Skylar Bayer of StricktlyFishwrapped Radio Hour to take a deep dive on transexual clownfish. Guest is Justin Rhodes, associate professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Illinois at...

  20. Ocean Lovin' 2 - Parrotfish

    Just in time for Valentines Day, a new round of Ocean Lovin' with Skylar Bayer is kicked off with a deep dive into the sex changing lives of Parrotfish. Guests include Dr. Josh Drew and Dr. Marah Hardt.

  21. Building a Library of 3D Fish

    The team takes an incredible journey into the world of 3D scanned specimens. Guests include #Scanallfish star Dr. Adam Summers of the University of Washington, Thadeus Beuser of Oregon State University, and Ben Frable of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography.

  22. MARE and the Batfish ROV

    The Ocean Science Radio team meets MARE, a ROV and ocean science company in the California Bay Area who is studying marine protected areas up and down the west coast with a fleet of tools including the BATFISH! Learn more at MAREGroup.org

  23. Sharktober

    Happy Halloween! It is #Sharktober and the Ocean Science Radio team wants to learn the facts behind the festivals and learn about.. well, Sharks! Guests include David McGuire - Shark Stewards Chris Fischer - Ocearch Dr. David Ebert - Pacific Shark Research Center Elena Tamburin - PHD Student -...

  24. Touring an American Submarine Factory at DOER

    The Ocean Science Radio team is back with a brand new team member. In this episode, we chat with Liz Taylor about the Alameda submarine and ROV company, DOER. Welcome Victoria Vásquez to the show!

  25. SXSW Eco

    Ocean Science Radio heads to Austin, Texas for the annual green tech event; SXSW Eco. There they spoke with keynote speakers, presenters and even one of the founders, Scott Wilcox about how the organization began. Join Andrew and Samantha as they chat with Robert F. Kennedy Jr of the Waterkeeper...

  26. MACNA

    Alex Rose reports from MACNA, The Marine Aquarium Conference of North America and chats with some incredible ocean and aquarium groups.

  27. Ocean Tech

    Ocean Tech is a world first collaborative marine research project, global education program and international media campaign. The project is bringing together the world’s top marine scientists with unique submersible technologies that are set to revolutionise the way scientists study marine life...

  28. IMCC4

    The Society for Conservation Biology's International Marine Conservation Congress (IMCC) brings together conservation professionals and students to develop new and powerful tools to further marine conservation science and policy. This year the Ocean Science Radio was able to chat with a few of…

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  29. Ice Is Nice

    The OSR team sits down with two different NASA projects that are monitoring our ice. Come join us with Oceans Melting Greenland and Operation IceBridge.

  30. Eye In The Sky

    Ocean Science Radio chats with the people behind NASA's ocean monitoring satellites and with a nonprofit using that data, and other satellite data to help watch over sea level rise, oil spills, and even illegal fishing.

  31. Hydrostor

    One of the biggest issues that is keeping the green energy revolution from truly soaring is the battery problem. One company looks to the ocean for a unique answer to that problem. www.hydrostor.ca

  32. Beneath The Sea

    Special Report from Alex Rose of Ocean Geographic from the annual diving trade show, Beneath the Sea. Interviewees include Megan Cook of Ocean Exploration Trust, Dr. Sylvia Earle, Stream to Sea, Center for Oceanic Awareness, Research and Education, Reef Environmental Education Foundation, artists...

  33. Squishy Robot Fingers

    The Ocean Science Radio crew takes on soft robotics and ocean exploration with National Geographic Explorer David Gruber and Harvard Robotics Scientist, Robert Wood.

  34. Christmas Island Crab Bridge

    Almost every year a small island off the coast of Java is flooded with crabs. The local National Park staff came up with a unique solution to help nature and humans to live in harmony.

  35. Ocean Science Radio Under Water VR

    New interactive and immersive 360 degree videos are taking over the internet and changing the way we explore our world. For the Catlin Seaview 360 imagery - https://www.facebook.com/seaview360/?fref=ts For the Anthony Walsh Surfing Video - https://www.facebook.com/gopro/videos/10153420825181919/

  36. OpenROV

    Ocean Science Radio sits down with the founders of OpenROV to talk about their founding, their community, and the hugely successful launch of their latest ocean exploration DIY robot. For more information, check out http://www.openrov.com/ or https://openexplorer.com/home

  37. Ocean Science Radio Xprize Acidification

    In the very first episode of the Ocean Science Radio program, we have a chat with the Xprize who recently awarded almost $2 Million to a team trying to create ways of monitoring the changing pH levels in our ocean. For more information, please visit http://oceanhealth.xprize.org/ and...

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ABOUT THIS SHOW

Ocean Science Radio is a joint project between Andrew Kornblatt, founder and host of the Online Ocean Symposium, and Naomi Frances Farabaugh of FIU.Previous co-host was Samantha Wishnak, Digital Media Coordinator at Ocean Exploration Trust. The program will focus on and highlight the latest and greatest ocean science stories that the world has to offer.

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Ocean Science Radio is a joint project between Andrew Kornblatt, founder and host of the Online Ocean Symposium, and Naomi Frances Farabaugh of FIU.Previous co-host was Samantha Wishnak, Digital Media Coordinator at Ocean Exploration Trust. The program will focus on and highlight the latest and...

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