Dr. Jason Smith recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on November 19, 2019. Dr. Smith is lead environmental scientist at DeepGreen Resources.
Mike Mitchell recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on November 1, 2018. Mitchell is the co-founder and CEO of Acarí Fish.
Brian Fagan recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on January 31, 2018. Fagan is the author of Fishing: How the Sea Fed Civilization, Elixir: A History of Water and Humankind, and Beyond the Blue Horizon: How the Earliest Mariners Unlocked the Secrets of the Ocean.
Dr. Gregory Stone recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on August 3, 2017. Dr. Stone was a co-founder of the Ocean Health Index and serves on the boards of Pacific Rising and Aquaspark. He also was the science advisor to the nation of Kiribati for the United Nations Paris climate agreement.
The Aquacast was recorded at the Aquarium on May 25, 2017. Peter Kareiva and Jerry Schubel moderated a panel discussion on aquaculture.
Jonathan Rose recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on February 24, 2017. Rose is the founder of investment, development, and urban planning firm Jonathan Rose Companies.
Joel Van Eenennaam recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on July 7, 2016. He is a research associate in the department of animal science at the University of California, Davis.
Paul Greenberg recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on November 10, 2014. He discussed American seafood consumption and sustainable seafood.
Filmmaker Adam Jones recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on June 4, 2014. He discusses his documentary Fish and Men, as well as U.S. fisheries and sustainability issues.
Paul Gaffney recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on March 4, 2014. During his thirty-five-year career in the Navy, where he reached the rank of vice admiral, Gaffney headed the Navy’s research program and was president of the National Defense University.
Ian and Donna Mitroff recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on February 27, 2014. Ian Mitroff is an author and a professor at the Marshall Goldsmith School of Management at Alliant University in San Francisco. He is president of the consulting firm Comprehensive Crisis Management.
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.
Perceptions of the United States are complex and emotional, frequently contain internal contradictions, and often change quickly, according to author Barry A. Sanders.
Nan Ellin, who spoke at the Aquarium on March 22, 2011, is a professor and chair of the Department of City and Metropolitan Planning at the University of Utah. She has served on the faculty of Arizona State University, the University of Cincinnati, Southern California Institute of Architecture, the University of Southern California, and New York University.
Aubrey Fine, who spoke at the Aquarium on June 2, 2011, has been in the field of animal-assisted therapy for more than thirty years. His clinical practice focuses on the treatment of children with developmental, learning, attention, and behavioral disorders. He has been an active faculty member at California State Polytechnic University since 1981.
Ana Pitchon is an assistant professor of anthropology at CSU Dominguez Hills. She specializes in marine human ecosystems and fisheries policy, and has held consultancies in the U.S. with NOAA. She is currently working in collaboration with NOAA on issues related to coastal resource dependency as part of the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act National Standard 8 research program.
Ben Sherwood is an author, award-winning journalist, and executive director of TheSurvivorsClub.org. From 2004 to 2006 he worked as executive producer of ABC’s Good Morning America. Sherwood guided prize-winning coverage of the tsunami in Southeast Asia, the devastation of hurricane Katrina, and the presidential election of 2004. His newest book is titled "The Survivors Club".
Eli Kintisch is a reporter for Science magazine, and has also written for Slate, Discover, MIT Technology Review and The New Republic. His reporting on geoengineering has included stories on Bill Gates funding planet-hacking research, DARPA exploring the idea, and a week-long historic meeting in 2010 to begin to draft voluntary rules on the concept. His new book, Hack the Planet, taps such first-hand experiences to draw a thorough portrait of this emerging field.
Sanchirico is a professor of environmental science and policy at the University of California, Davis and a nonresident fellow of Resources for the Future in Washington DC, non-profit environmental policy think-tank. He received his Ph.D. in agricultural and resource economics from the University of California, Davis.
Dr. Clark founded Clark Strategic Partners in 2004 and has served as energy advisor for the LA Community College District. Currently he is co-chair of CleanTech Institute at the University of California, Berkeley Haas Business School Executive Program. In 2007, Clark was a co-recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize due to his co-authorship and co-editorship for the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) from 1995-2000.