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Oceanography Vol. 1
by Aquarium of the Pacific
Get in-depth information about current research in the field of oceanography in these short video podcasts from the Aquarium of the Pacific. This Long Beach, California-based institution hosts visiting lecturers in its Guest Speaker Series throughout the year. 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.
Episodes
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Coastal Resiliency in New York and New Jersey After Sandy
In this episode of Coastal Conversations, Aquarium President and CEO Jerry Schubel talks with Dr. Alan Blumberg, who has been working on coastal resiliency in New York and New Jersey with efforts to prepare for extreme weather, like Hurricane Sandy in 2012.
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Alan Blumberg
Alan Blumberg recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on July 21, 2015. Blumberg is the George Meade Bond Professor of Ocean Engineering and director of the Davidson Laboratory at Stevens Institute of Technology.
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Reinhard Flick
Reinhard Flick recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on July 1, 2015. Flick is a scientist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography.
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Dan Cayan
Dan Cayan recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on June 24, 2015. Cayan is a research meteorologist with the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego, and a researcher with the U.S. Geological Survey. He heads the California Nevada Applications Program RISA...
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Rick Spinrad
Rick Spinrad recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on March 3, 2015. Spinrad is chief scientist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
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Ken Buesseler
Ken Buesseler recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on March 11, 2015. Buesseler is a senior scientist in marine chemistry and geochemistry at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.
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Emily Yam
Emily Yam recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on January 22, 2015. Yam is the Aquarium’s science interpretation manager.
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Lincoln Paine
Lincoln Paine recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on September 24, 2014. He discussed humankind's relationship to the ocean throughout history and his book, The Sea and Civilization: A Maritime History of the World.
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El Niño Webcast
The Aquarium hosted a live webcast on November 13, 2014, with experts from NOAA and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to discuss the El Niño phenomenon and predictions for this winter's rainy season.
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Stephen and Anthony Palumbi
Father and son co-authors Stephen and Anthony Palumbi recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on June 12, 2014. They discuss the issues addressed in their book, The Extreme Life of the Sea.
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Dan Fornari
Dan Fornari recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on March 25, 2014. Fornari is a senior scientist in geology and geophysics at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.
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John Delaney
John Delaney recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on October 3, 2013. Delaney is a professor of oceanography at the University of Washington, principal investigator and director of the Regional Scale Nodes Program, and the Jerome M. Paros Endowed Chair in Sensor Networks.
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Larry Mayer
Larry Mayer recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on August 29, 2013. Larry Mayer is a professor and the director of the Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping at the University of New Hampshire.
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Dawn Wright
Aquacast recorded on July 16, 2013. Dawn Wright discusses new sophisticated technologies that have been developed in the last ten to twenty years that hold tremendous potential for mapping and interpreting the ocean in unprecedented detail.
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Nicholas Fisher
Aquacast recorded on 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.
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Leslie Harris - Hitchhiking Aliens: Unexpected Consequences of the Japan Tsunami
Aquacast recorded at the Aquarium on 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 from Leslie Harris about the non-native plant...
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William Sargent
Aquacast recorded on April 2, 2013. William Sargent spoke about Atlantic coast storms and shared compelling stories from his book Beach Wars.
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Dean Wendt
California recently completed the designation of a new network of marine protected areas (MPAs) along its 800-mile coastline. The process has been heralded as a landmark event in marine resource management and conservation.
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Charles Moore
In 1997 Captain Charles Moore discovered plastic in the ocean in the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre. Dubbed the Great North Pacific Garbage Patch, this estimated three million tons of plastic debris is still growing in the Northeast Pacific between Hawaii and the West Coast. He spoke at the...
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Bruce Perry
In his lecture on February 7, 2012, Bruce Perry covered the evolution of the Continental Borderland and its effects on the current circulation, wave action, and biology of the Southern California Bight (the Southern California coast running from Point Conception to Mexico). Perry holds a BS and…
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Mark Jackson
In his talk with Jeanine Jones on January 25, 2012, Jackson discussed recent scientific discoveries are revealing new information about atmospheric rivers—the concentrated streams of moisture that originate over the Pacific Ocean and cause major winter floods in California. Jackson is the...
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Jeanine Jones
In her talk with Mark Jackson on January 25, 2012, Jones discussed recent scientific discoveries are revealing new information about atmospheric rivers—the concentrated streams of moisture that originate over the Pacific Ocean and cause major winter floods in California. Jones is the interstate...
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Richard Feely
Dr. Richard Feely, who spoke on May 23, 2011, is a senior scientist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory in Seattle. He also holds an affiliate full professor faculty position at the University of Washington’s School of Oceanography. His...
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James Lindholm
Dr. James Lindholm, who spoke at the Aquarium on April 27, 2011, is the James W. Rote Distinguished Professor of Marine Science and Policy and the founder and director of the Institute for Applied Marine Ecology at California State University, Monterey Bay. His research interests include the...
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Peter Ward
Peter Ward, who spoke at the Aquarium about the impacts of climate change on June 16, 2011, is a professor of biology and space sciences at the University of Washington in Seattle. His books include "Rare Earth: Why Complex Life is Uncommon in the Universe" and "The Medea Hypothesis: Is Life on...
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Clark Snodgrass
Clark Snodgrass, who spoke at the Aquarium on July 6, 2011, has twenty-five years of experience in aerospace systems engineering and development spanning numerous space programs at Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems. He currently serves as the Northrop Grumman director of System Engineering,...
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Alexander “Sandy” MacDonald
Dr. Alexander "Sandy" MacDonald, the inventor of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Science on a Sphere, spoke at the Aquarium on May 31, 2011. He is the deputy assistant administrator for Laboratories and Cooperative Institutes for the NOAA Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric...
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William Sager
Dr. Sager is a professor of oceanography at Texas A and M University. His current research efforts are concentrated on geophysical studies of hotspots and ocean plateaus and how they formed and evolved, as well as magnetic anomaly interpretations and the geomagnetic polarity reversal time scale.
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Bruce Parker
Dr. Parker is presently a visiting professor at the Center for Maritime Systems at the Stevens Institute of Technology and is the former chief scientist of the National Ocean Service at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. He has a Ph.D. in physical oceanography from The Johns...
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Richard Somerville
Richard Somerville is a theoretical meteorologist and distinguished professor emeritus at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego. He earned his Ph.D from New York University and has received awards for both his research and his popular book, The Forgiving...
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Curtis Ebbesmeyer
Curtis Ebbesmeyer holds a Ph.D. in oceanography from the University of Washington and is regarded as an expert on ocean currents and floating objects. Each year, Curt presents a booth and talks at beachcomber fairs in Alaska, Florida, and Washington.
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Henry Pollack
Henry Pollack is professor emeritus of geophysics in the department of geological sciences at the University of Michigan. His current research focuses on the record of climate change as recorded by the temperatures in the rocks beneath the Earth’s surface. Pollack authored the book 'Uncertain...
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Wallace Broecker
A prolific researcher, teacher and author, Dr. Broecker has published over 400 scientific articles and is the author or coauthor of several textbooks. His most recent book is The Great Ocean Conveyor: Discovering the Trigger for Abrupt Climate Change.
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Jim Sanchirico
Sanchirico is a professor of environmental science and policy at the University of California, Davis and a nonresident fellow of Resources for the Future in Washington DC, non-profit environmental policy think-tank. He received his Ph.D. in agricultural and resource economics from the University…
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Rikk Kvitek
Rikk Kvitek is a Professor in the Division of Science and Environmental Policy, CSU Monterey Bay, where he also directs the CSUMB Seafloor Mapping Lab and CSU COAST Technology Center for Spatial Information Visualization and Analysis. Rikk obtained his Bachelor of Science degree in zoology from…
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Orrin H. Pilkey
Orrin Pilkey is a research professor and James B. Duke Professor Emeritus at the Duke University Nicholas School of the Environment. He has received a number of awards including the Shepard medal for excellence in Marine Geology, The Priestly Award and public service awards from several geology...
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Monty Graham
Dr. William (Monty) Graham is a Senior Marine Scientist at the Dauphin Island Sea Lab near Mobile, Alabama. He received his doctorate in Biology from the University of California at Santa Cruz in 1994. Dr. Graham has broad expertise in the field of Biological Oceanography and zooplankton ecology....
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Bill Sargent
Bill Sargent is a consultant for the NOVA Science series and author of Sea Level Rise: The Chatham Story. Formerly Director of the Baltimore Aquarium and a research assistant at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Sargent has taught at the Briarwood Center for Marine Biology and at Harvard...
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John Seager
Dr. Seager is the president and CEO of Population Connection. Dr. Seager believes there is a clear connection between human population growth and virtually every global challenge from poverty to climate change and from species extinction to the political instability of failed nation-states.
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Charlie Zender
Professor Zender is an atmospheric physicist and educator. He leads the Climate, Health, Aerosols,Radiation, and Microphysics (CHARM) group in the Department of Earth System Science at UC Irvine. CHARM studies the distribution and fluxes of energy and trace species in Earth's atmosphere. Prior to...
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Reuben Margolin
Artist Reuben Margolin has spent the last ten years making kinetic sculptures inspired by wave motion. Seeking to combine the logic of mathematics with the sensuousness of nature, Reuben built a series of monumental mechanical mobiles that have been exhibited internationally, including at the...
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Michael Welland
Dr. Welland, is the founder and director of Orogen Ltd., a consulting company based in London, England. He has been face-to- face with geology around the world from the Arctic to the dunes of the Gulf Kebir (Great Barrier) in the Western Desert of Egypt. He holds a PhD in geology from the...
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Rick Aster
At the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Aster is Professor of Geophysics, the Chair of Earth and Environmental Science, and the Geophysics Program Coordinator in the Department of Earth and Environmental Science. Aster earned his Masters in Geophysics from the UW Madison and his PhD...
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Gary Griggs
Dr. Griggs has been a professor of Earth Sciences at the University of California, Santa Cruz since 1968. He is presently the director of the Institute of Marine Sciences and also the chair of the University of California Marine Council. He served for 15 years as a geologic advisor to Santa Cruz...
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Daniel Botkin
Daniel Botkin is a scientist who studies life from a planetary perspective. He writes about nature, and is one of the world’s leading researchers who has helped solve major environmental issues. Dr. Botkin is a research professor in the Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology at the...
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Margaret Leinen
Dr. Margaret Leinen is the Chief Science Officer of Climos, Inc., a company leveraging natural processes to reduce greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. Between 2000 and 2007, Dr. Leinen managed the Geosciences Directorate, the second largest at NSF, that funds the majority of new publicly funded...
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Rae and Wallis: Catch a Wave
Graeme Rae, PhD, is the product manager of and creative source behind Surfline.com, a popular online surfing website focusing on the East Coast. Kevin Wallis is the forecast manager and lead forecaster at Surfline where he develops and supervises the daily surfing forecasts for a large part of…
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Richard West
Rear Admiral Richard West, USN (Re.) is president of the Consortium for Oceanographic Research and Education (CORE) division of the Consortium of Ocean Leadership whose mission is to advance research, education, and sound ocean policy. In his view of the ocean from Washington, Admiral West gives…
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Conrad Lautenbacher: Global Climate Change
The National Ocean and Atmospheric Agency (NOAA), under the direction of Vice Admiral Conrad Lautenbacher, Jr., USN (Ret), is charged with analyzing and predicting the nation’s climate and weather now and into the future. Admiral Lautenbacher explains how NOAA agencies are responding to the need…
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Dr. William Patzert
Bill Patzert has a PhD in oceanography and is a research scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab at the California Institute of Technology.
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Get in-depth information about current research in the field of oceanography in these short video podcasts from the Aquarium of the Pacific. This Long Beach, California-based institution hosts visiting lecturers in its Guest Speaker Series throughout the year. 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.
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