Coastal Conversations

Why Aren’t They Listening?  

Original broadcast date: March 28, 2014.

Video Posted: March 31, 2014 | Running time: 39:14

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Adapting to the New Normal Along Our Coasts  

Coastal Conversations

In this episode, the panel discusses current issues affecting our nation’s coasts and what our options are for adapting to, and coping with, this “New Normal.”

Video Posted: February 28, 2014 | Running time: 46:35

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Open-Ocean Aquaculture  

Coastal Conversations

In this episode, the speakers discuss open-ocean aquaculture and whether it is needed, under what conditions, why many are opposed to it, and how to gain public support for it in the United States.

Video Posted: January 13, 2014 | Running time: 37:33

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Ocean Acidification  

Coastal Conversations

In this episode, speakers discuss ocean acidification and its impacts on marine life.

Video Posted: December 23, 2013 | Running time: 36:41

Coastal Conversations Show

Over-Fertilization of Coastal Waters and Dead Zones  

Coastal Conversations

In this episode, the speakers explore a problem common to both ocean coastal zones and the Great Lakes—over-fertilization by nutrients, plankton blooms, and dead zones.

Video Posted: November 18, 2013 | Running time: 27:03

Coastal Conversations Show

Enhancing the Resilience of Coastal Communities  

Coastal Conversations

In this episode, the speakers discuss how to enhance the resilience of coastal communities to threats such as sea level rise and natural disasters like floods and hurricanes.

Video Posted: November 18, 2013 | Running time: 32:10

Coastal Conversations Show

Coastal Conversations: Great Lakes  

Coastal Conversations

In this episode, we are focusing on the Great Lakes, where lake levels are are falling and may continue to fall as a result of climate change. Falling lake levels have many implications—economic and environmental.

Video Posted: September 19, 2013 | Running time: 29:46

Coastal Conversations Show

Coastal Communities and the Rising Sea: The Coming Collision  

Coastal Conversations

This broadcast in the Aquarium's Coastal Conversations series features an interview with Aquarium President and CEO Jerry Schubel and Doug Marcy, coastal hazards specialist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Coastal Services Center in Charleston, South Carolina.

Video Posted: August 23, 2013 | Running time: 27:04

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Coastal Conversations: The Current “Coastscape”  

Coastal Conversations

In the first episode of Coastal Conversations, a monthly live web series, Aquarium President and CEO Jerry Schubel discusses with three National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration experts the current state of affairs for coastal areas of the United States.

Video Posted: August 23, 2013 | Running time: 34:56