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Debra and Vincent Canabal
Plight of the Oceanic Whitetip Sharks
Debra and Vincent Canabal recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on January 30, 2014. The Canabals are owners and operators of Epic Diving in the Bahamas.
Leslie Harris - The Wonderful World of Worms
The Wonderful World of Worms
Leslie Harris recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on January 23, 2014. Harris is the collections manager for the Los Angeles County Natural History Museum’s polychaete (marine annelid worms) collection.
Barry Sanders
The Los Angeles 1984 Olympic Games
Barry Sanders recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on January 13, 2014. International corporate lawyer Barry Sanders is chairman of the Southern California Committee for the Olympic Games. He led the effort to bid for the 2016 Olympic Games in Los Angeles and now leads the effort to bring the Games to Los Angeles in 2024.
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.
Ocean Acidification
Coastal Conversations
In this episode, speakers discuss ocean acidification and its impacts on marine life.
Jesse Ausubel - The Census of Marine Life
The Census of Marine Life
Jesse Ausubel recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on December 5, 2013. He is one of the founders of the Census of Marine Life, a ten-year scientific initiative to determine the diversity, distribution, and abundance of life in the ocean. He currently serves as the director and senior research associate at Rockefeller University’s Program for the Human Environment.
Laurence Madin
Alien Life of Inner Space
Laurence Madin recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on November 12, 2013. Madin is the executive vice president, director of research, and a senior scientist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) in Woods Hole, Massachusetts.
Samuel Wasser
Conservation Canines: Tracking a Subtle Scent, a Dog May Help Save the Whales
Samuel Wasser recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on October 9, 2013. Dr. Samuel Wasser, director of the Center for Conservation Biology at the University of Washington, has developed non-invasive wildlife monitoring methods, including genetic, endocrine, and detection dog techniques.
John Delaney
When the Ocean Comes to Your Living Room
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.
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.
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.
Shirley Pomponi
Drugs from the Deep
Shirley Pomponi recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on September 24, 2013. Sponge researcher and ocean explorer Dr. Shirley Pomponi is a senior research professor at Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution at Florida Atlantic University.
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.
Laurent Ballesta
The Gombessa Expedition: Extreme Dives to Study a Living Fossil
Laurent Ballesta recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on September 17, 2013. Diver and underwater photographer Laurent Ballesta is a pioneer in photographing marine life of the deep sea.
Michael Latz
Living Light in the Ocean Darkness
Michael Latz recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on September 11, 2013. Latz is the principal investigator at the Latz Laboratory at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, where he is also a senior lecturer.