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Dr. Stephen Weisberg recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on May 24, 2016. Dr. Weisberg is executive director of the Southern California Coastal Water Research Project Authority.
Jason Keller recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on April 21, 2016. Keller is an associate professor of life and environmental sciences in Chapman University’s Schmid College of Science and Technology.
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.
Greg Stone recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on August 20, 2015. He is the executive vice president for Conservation International.
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.
Donald Prothero recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on July 9, 2015. Prothero is a professor in the department of geological sciences at California Polytechnic University, Pomona, and a research associate in vertebrate paleontology at the Los Angeles County Natural History Museum.
Reinhard Flick recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on July 1, 2015. Flick is a scientist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography.
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.
Dr. Andrew Rosenberg recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on April 22, 2015. Rosenberg is the director of the Center for Science and Democracy at the Union of Concerned Scientists.
Heather Lynch recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on March 17, 2015. Lynch is a member of the faculty in ecology and evolution at the State University of New York at Stony Brook.
Original broadcast date: January 23, 2015.
Ray Ban recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on January 13, 2015. Ban, formerly the executive vice president of programming, operations, and meteorology at The Weather Channel Inc., is currently the managing director of Ban and Associates.
Originally recorded on December 5, 2014.
David Sands recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on May 14, 2014. Montana State University professor and plant pathologist David Sands discusses his work in researching bacteria that play a role in battling crop diseases.
NOAA National Weather Service Science and Operations Officer John Dumas and General Manager of the Long Beach Water Department Kevin Wattier discuss California’s drought, its connections to heavy winter storms on the country's East Coast, and how the drought is impacting Southern California.
Laurence Madin recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on November 12, 2013. Madin is the executive vice president, director of research, and a senior scientist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) in Woods Hole, Massachusetts.
Aquacast recorded on March 20, 2013. Jeanine Jones discussed the Colorado River basin's complex legal and institutional framework, together with efforts under way to mitigate the impacts of shortages, including innovative binational partnerships.
On average, fires in Southern California scorch more than 100,000 acres each year. When hot and dry Santa Ana winds combine with critically dry vegetation, the potential for large and destructive wildfires dramatically increases.
Huge natural disasters—from earthquakes, tsunamis, and volcanic eruptions to floods, tornadoes, hurricanes, and blizzards—have had a profound effect on human history and civilization, often in surprising ways. According to Donald Prothero, humans have an unrealistic and irrational reaction to these natural disasters and fear the ones that are least deadly while taking for granted those that are the most likely killers.
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