Coastal Conversations

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.

Marine Mass Extinctions: Animal Loss in the Global Oceans

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.

12-08
20:39

Coastal Resiliency in New York and New Jersey After Sandy

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.

11-12
26:14

The Roles of Science in a Democracy and Ways to Make Them Work

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.

05-26
33:02

The Roles of Social Sciences in Ocean Management and Policy

Original broadcast date: January 23, 2015.

01-23
23:18

El Niño

Originally recorded on December 5, 2014.

12-05
34:00

Increasing Community Resilience

Original broadcast date: October 31, 2014.

10-31
31:40

The Role of Design and Design Thinking in Sustainability and Ocean Conservation

Original broadcast date: September 29, 2014

09-29
32:03

Environmental Ethics

Original broadcast date: July 7, 2014.

07-08
34:22

Medicines From the Sea

Original broadcast date: May 20, 2014.

05-21
27:09

Conservation in the Anthropocene

Original broadcast date: April 23, 2014

04-29
29:27

Why Aren’t They Listening?

Original broadcast date: March 28, 2014.

03-31
39:14

Adapting to the New Normal Along Our Coasts

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.”

02-28
46:35

Open-Ocean Aquaculture

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.

01-13
37:33

Ocean Acidification

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

12-23
36:41

Over-Fertilization of Coastal Waters and Dead Zones

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.

11-18
27:03

Enhancing the Resilience of Coastal Communities

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.

11-18
32:10

Coastal Conversations: Great Lakes

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.

09-19
29:46

Coastal Communities and the Rising Sea: The Coming Collision

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.

08-23
27:04

Coastal Conversations: The Current “Coastscape”

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.

08-23
34:56

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