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Coastal Conversations

Author: Aquarium of the Pacific

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Get in-depth information about current research in the field of oceanography in these short video podcasts from the Aquarium of the Pacific. This Long Beach, California-based institution hosts visiting lecturers in its Guest Speaker Series throughout the year. These experts share stories from the field, new insights about ocean science and predictions for the future, and knowledge they have gathered about the ocean and its inhabitants over years of study. Speakers include university researchers, explorers, acclaimed authors, journalists, nature photographers, and more.
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In this episode of Coastal Conversations, Aquarium President and CEO Jerry Schubel talks with Dr. Douglas McCauley, a biologist with expertise in extinctions on land and in the ocean.
In this episode of Coastal Conversations, Aquarium President and CEO Jerry Schubel talks with Dr. Alan Blumberg, who has been working on coastal resiliency in New York and New Jersey with efforts to prepare for extreme weather, like Hurricane Sandy in 2012.
In this episode of Coastal Conversations, Aquarium President and CEO Jerry Schubel talks with Dr. Andrew Rosenberg, director of the Center for Science and Democracy at the Union of Concerned Scientists.
Original broadcast date: February 27, 2015.
Original broadcast date: January 23, 2015.
El Niño

El Niño

2014-12-0534:00

Originally recorded on December 5, 2014.
Original broadcast date: October 31, 2014.
Original broadcast date: September 29, 2014
Environmental Ethics

Environmental Ethics

2014-07-0834:22

Original broadcast date: July 7, 2014.
Medicines From the Sea

Medicines From the Sea

2014-05-2127:09

Original broadcast date: May 20, 2014.
Original broadcast date: April 23, 2014
Original broadcast date: March 28, 2014.
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.”
Open-Ocean Aquaculture

Open-Ocean Aquaculture

2014-01-1337:33

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

Ocean Acidification

2013-12-2336:41

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