Oceanography Vol. 1

Oceanography Vol. 1

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

Coastal Resiliency in New York and New Jersey After Sandy

November 12, 2015 • 26 mins
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

July 30, 2015 • 2 mins
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

July 7, 2015 • 3 mins
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

July 7, 2015 • 3 mins
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 team and has played a lead role in the California Climate Change Vulnerability and Adaptation Assessments.
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Rick Spinrad

June 22, 2015 • 3 mins
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

April 13, 2015 • 4 mins
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

January 23, 2015 • 4 mins
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

December 18, 2014 • 3 mins
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

November 13, 2014 • 26 mins
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

June 23, 2014 • 4 mins
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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John Delaney

December 20, 2013 • 3 mins
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

August 30, 2013 • 3 mins
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

August 2, 2013 • 3 mins
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

August 2, 2013 • 3 mins
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

August 2, 2013 • 3 mins
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 and animal species attached to the debris that hitched a ride to our shores.
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William Sargent

August 2, 2013 • 3 mins
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

January 30, 2013 • 2 mins
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

August 1, 2012 • 3 mins
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 Aquarium on March 6, 2012.
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Bruce Perry

July 29, 2012 • 4 mins
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 MS in geology, teaches oceanography and geology at local community colleges and universities, and has extensive on-the-job training in phys...
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Mark Jackson

July 28, 2012 • 4 mins
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 meteorologist in charge for the National Weather Service serving Los Angeles, Ventura, Santa Barbara, and San Luis Obispo Counties.
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