Oceanography Vol. 1

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Coastal Resiliency in New York and New Jersey After Sandy

2015-11-1226:14

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.

Alan Blumberg

2015-07-3002:43

Alan Blumberg recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on July 21, 2015. Blumberg is the George Meade Bond Professor of Ocean Engineering and director of the Davidson Laboratory at Stevens Institute of Technology.

Reinhard Flick

2015-07-0703:40

Reinhard Flick recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on July 1, 2015. Flick is a scientist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography.

Dan Cayan

2015-07-0703:41

Dan Cayan recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on June 24, 2015. Cayan is a research meteorologist with the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego, and a researcher with the U.S. Geological Survey. He heads the California Nevada Applications Program RISA team and has played a lead role in the California Climate Change Vulnerability and Adaptation Assessments.

Rick Spinrad

2015-06-2203:29

Rick Spinrad recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on March 3, 2015. Spinrad is chief scientist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

Ken Buesseler

2015-04-1304:09

Ken Buesseler recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on March 11, 2015. Buesseler is a senior scientist in marine chemistry and geochemistry at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.

Emily Yam

2015-01-2304:05

Emily Yam recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on January 22, 2015. Yam is the Aquarium’s science interpretation manager.

Lincoln Paine

2014-12-1803:10

Lincoln Paine recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on September 24, 2014. He discussed humankind's relationship to the ocean throughout history and his book, The Sea and Civilization: A Maritime History of the World.

El Niño Webcast

2014-11-1326:05

The Aquarium hosted a live webcast on November 13, 2014, with experts from NOAA and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to discuss the El Niño phenomenon and predictions for this winter's rainy season.

Stephen and Anthony Palumbi

2014-06-2304:44

Father and son co-authors Stephen and Anthony Palumbi recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on June 12, 2014. They discuss the issues addressed in their book, The Extreme Life of the Sea.

Dan Fornari

2014-04-0103:10

Dan Fornari recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on March 25, 2014. Fornari is a senior scientist in geology and geophysics at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.

John Delaney

2013-12-2003:15

John Delaney recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on October 3, 2013. Delaney is a professor of oceanography at the University of Washington, principal investigator and director of the Regional Scale Nodes Program, and the Jerome M. Paros Endowed Chair in Sensor Networks.

Larry Mayer

2013-08-3003:06

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.

Dawn Wright

2013-08-0203:12

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

2013-08-0203:02

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.

Leslie Harris - Hitchhiking Aliens: Unexpected Consequences of the Japan Tsunami

2013-08-0203:00

Aquacast recorded at the Aquarium on May 7, 2013. After the earthquake and resulting tsunami that struck Japan in 2010, ocean currents and wind brought debris across the Pacific Ocean to the shores of the Pacific Northwest of the United States. Learn from Leslie Harris about the non-native plant and animal species attached to the debris that hitched a ride to our shores.

William Sargent

2013-08-0203:13

Aquacast recorded on April 2, 2013. William Sargent spoke about Atlantic coast storms and shared compelling stories from his book Beach Wars.

Dean Wendt

2013-01-3002:58

California recently completed the designation of a new network of marine protected areas (MPAs) along its 800-mile coastline. The process has been heralded as a landmark event in marine resource management and conservation.

Charles Moore

2012-08-0103:55

In 1997 Captain Charles Moore discovered plastic in the ocean in the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre. Dubbed the Great North Pacific Garbage Patch, this estimated three million tons of plastic debris is still growing in the Northeast Pacific between Hawaii and the West Coast. He spoke at the Aquarium on March 6, 2012.

Bruce Perry

2012-07-2904:11

In his lecture on February 7, 2012, Bruce Perry covered the evolution of the Continental Borderland and its effects on the current circulation, wave action, and biology of the Southern California Bight (the Southern California coast running from Point Conception to Mexico). Perry holds a BS and MS in geology, teaches oceanography and geology at local community colleges and universities, and has extensive on-the-job training in physical oceanography.

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