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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.
Bruce Robison
Exploring the Deep Pacific: Dragonfish, Spookfish, and Other Unbelievable Animals
Bruce Robison recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on August 13, 2013. Robison is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and a fellow of the California Academy of Sciences.
Larry Mayer
Ocean Mapping: Exploring the Secrets of the Deep
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.
Edith Widder
The Kraken Revealed: The Story Behind Finding the Giant Squid
Edith Widder recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on August 27, 2013. Widder is a deep-sea explorer, oceanographer, marine biologist, and co-founder of the Ocean Research and Conservation Association.
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.
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.
Jim Hellemn
Portrait of a Coral Reef
Jim Hellemn recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on April 23, 2013. His photography has appeared in National Geographic magazine and at the American Museum of Natural History.
Jesus Reyes
Environmental Impacts from an ‘Ocean’ of Humans
Aquacast recorded on July 25, 2013. Jesus Reyes discusses the pressures on California’s coastal aquatic environments derived from highly developed urban and residential zones and their diverse, extensive activities.
Dawn Wright
Creatures of the Deep and Treasure Maps of the Ocean Floor
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.
Nicholas Fisher
Impacts of Radioactivity on Marine Life After Fukushima
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.
Napoleon Chagnon
Noble Savages
Aquacast recorded on April 8, 2013. Anthropologist Napoleon Chagnon discusses his recently published memoir, Noble Savages: My Life Among Two Dangerous Tribes—The Yanomamö and the Anthropologists.