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Jennifer Brandon
“No, It’s Not Actually an Island”: What Studying the Great Pacific Garbage Patch Taught Me About Being a Science Communicator
Jennifer Brandon recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on July 24, 2019. Brandon has a Ph.D. in biological oceanography from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. She recently completed an eighteen-month stint as the Price Postdoctoral Fellow in science communication and outreach at the Birch Aquarium at Scripps.
Shawn Maestretti and Leigh Adams
Climate Reality: Regeneration of the Landscape
Shawn Maestretti and Leigh Adams recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on July 17, 2019. Maestretti is a landscape architect, arborist, and principal of Shawn Maestretti Garden Architecture. Adams is a horticultural interpreter at the Los Angeles County Arboretum and Botanic Gardens.
Kim Steinhardt
The Sea Otter Survival Story: A Human Obstacle Course
Kim Steinhardt recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on June 27, 2019. Steinhardt is a former administrative law judge turned environmental writer and marine wildlife photographer.
Edward Barbier
The Water Paradox
Edward Barbier recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on May 30, 2019. Barbier is a professor in the department of economics at Colorado State University and a senior scholar in the School of Global Environmental Sustainability.
Sam Muka
Stability in a Changing World: The Role of the Public Aquarium in 20th Century Marine Biological Research
Sam Muka recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on March 19, 2019. Muka is an assistant professor in the Science and Technology Studies program at the Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, New Jersey.
Sara Mandel
Penguin Conservation in South Africa
Sara Mandel recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on February 28, 2019. Mandel is an aviculturist at the Aquarium of the Pacific.
James Gesualdi
Shifting from Being Right to Doing Right for Animals
James Gesualdi recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on February 13, 2019. Gesualdi is an animal welfare attorney based in New York.
Katie Finch
The Great Lakes Piping Plover: Conservation through Collaboration
Katie Finch recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on February 5, 2019. Finch is a mammalogist at the Aquarium of the Pacific.
Jeremy Jackson
Breakpoint: Reckoning With America’s Environmental Crises
Jeremy Jackson recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on January 9, 2019. Jackson is an emeritus professor at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography and a senior scientist emeritus at the Smithsonian Institution.
Greg Rau
Sea Change Needed in Managing the Ocean and the Planet
Greg Rau recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on October 16, 2018. Rau is a senior research scientist at the Institute of Marine Sciences at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
Anne Cohen
Where the Living Reefs Are: A Quest to Find the World’s Most Resilient Corals
Anne Cohen recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on October 11, 2018. Cohen is an associate scientist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.
Ester Quintana
The Urban Whale: How the Right Whale Population Ended Up on the Brink of Extinction
Ester Quintana recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on October 2, 2018. Dr. Quintana is a research scientist at the Anderson Cabot Center for Ocean Life at the New England Aquarium.
Rob Mortensen and Katherine Finch
Pacific Island Bird Conservation
Rob Mortensen and Katherine Finch recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on September 19, 2018. Mortensen is the Aquarium's curator of mammals and birds and Finch is a mammalogist.
Dr. Randi Rotjan
Science and Conservation in the Largest and Deepest World Heritage Site: A Natural Laboratory for Global Change
Dr. Randi Rotjan recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on September 20, 2018. Dr. Rotjan is a research assistant professor at Boston University and co-chief scientist of the PIPA Conservation Trust.
Dr. Sandy Trautwein
Twenty Years of Achievements in Husbandry and Conservation
Dr. Sandy Trautwein recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on August 30, 2018. Dr. Trautwein is the Aquarium's vice president of husbandry.