Lecture date: December 15, 2020. Aquarium President and CEO Dr. Peter Kareiva discusses human connections with nature and how increased access to nature will encourage more people to become environmental stewards.
Lecture date: October 15, 2020. Journalist and historian Jon Gertner discusses his book and Greenland's rapidly melting ice sheet, a harbinger of climate change.
Lecture date: August 11, 2020. Jeffrey Bennett answers questions about the science of global warming, while showing that the solutions to this important problem are ones that people of all persuasions can agree on.
Lecture date: May 13, 2020. Richard Somerville presents a lecture to discuss the latest climate science, public perceptions, and how science can guide policymaking.
Lecture date: May 6, 2020. Historian Sunil Amrith discusses his book, Unruly Waters, in which he reimagines Asia’s history through the stories of its rains, rivers, coasts, and seas—and of the weather-watchers and engineers, mapmakers, and farmers who have sought to control them.
Lecture date: January 9, 2020. Dr. Thomas White discusses skepticism of climate change in the United States.
Lee McIntyre recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on October 8, 2019. McIntyre is a research fellow at the Center for Philosophy and History of Science at Boston University and a lecturer in ethics at Harvard Extension School.
Lecture date: October 7, 2019. In a presentation co-sponsored by the Aquarium and The Nature Conservancy, experts from the University of California, Santa Cruz, and France's University of Montpellier discuss sea level rise in Long Beach.
Lecture date: July 31, 2019. A panel of ocean experts discusses our changing ocean and potential solutions to support ocean health.
Lecture date: July 9, 2019. Xin Wang discusses human migration as a response to environmental change.
Lecture date: June 4, 2019. Aquarium President and CEO Jerry Schubel moderates a panel discussion featuring coral experts from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and other organizations.
Dr. Manuel Pastor recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on March 26, 2019. Dr. Pastor is a professor of sociology and American studies and ethnicity at the University of Southern California (USC).
Joshua Goldstein recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on March 12, 2019. Goldstein is professor emeritus of international relations at American University in Washington, D.C.
Lecture date: March 26, 2019. Manuel Pastor discusses how California has confronted many of the challenges the country faces now, including climate change, low-wage work, immigrant integration, and rates of incarceration.
Lecture date: March 12, 2019. Joshua Goldstein discusses the potential role for nuclear power in addressing climate change.
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 recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on October 11, 2018. Cohen is an associate scientist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.
Lecture date: October 16, 2018. Dr. Greg Rau discusses the unprecedented nature and magnitude of the stresses the ocean now faces, some new approaches to avoiding or lessening the impacts, and the need for policies that support the emergence, evaluation, and development of new marine and planetary management strategies.
Lecture date: October 11, 2018. Anne Cohen discusses the science and the scientists, the triumphs and the trials, behind the mission to uncover the world’s most resilient reefs.
Lecture date: August 16, 2018. Dr. Drew Lohrer discusses the 2017 Science Under the Ice expedition to explore how climate change is affecting marine biodiversity along the Antarctic coastline.