Aquarium of the Pacific AquaCast

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What's Aquarium of the Pacific AquaCast about?

Dive into the Pacific Ocean. Hear the latest news about the Aquarium of the Pacific, its animals, and exhibits, and listen to a variety of scientists and guest speakers covering important issues facing our ocean and planet. To download video files of these podcasts, visit our website at http://www.aquariumofpacific.org/multimedia

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Aquarium of the Pacific AquaCast episodes:

01.27.2020
Andrew Reeves - Unwitting Helpers: The Strange, True Story of How Silent Spring and the Clean Water Act Gave Rise to Asian Carp in America
Andrew Reeves recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on February 26, 2020. Reeves is an author and environmental journalist.
01.27.2020
Nate Jaros and Briana Fodor - Coral Reef Restoration in Palau and the Bahamas
Nate Jaros and Briana Fodor recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on February 19, 2020. Jaros is the Aquarium’s curator of fish and invertebrates, and Fodor is a senior aquarist.
01.27.2020
David Bader - A Story About People and Place: Lessons Learned in Vaquita Conservation
David Bader recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on February 6, 2020. Bader is the Aquarium's director of education and lead coordinator for the Association of Zoos and Aquariums’ Vaquita SAFE (Saving Animals From Extinction) program.
12.24.2019
Josie Iselin - The Curious World of Seaweed
Josie Iselin recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on January 30, 2020. Iselin is an artist and author of the new book, The Curious World of Seaweed.
12.24.2019
Ellen Prager - Galápagos Wonders
Ellen Prager recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on January 22, 2020. Dr. Prager is a marine scientist and science advisor to Celebrity Cruises in the Galápagos Islands. Her previous books include Sex, Drugs, and Sea Slime: The Oceans’ Oddest...
12.24.2019
Susan Gerros - Saving Birds in the Northern Mariana Islands
Susan Gerros recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on January 15, 2020. Gerros is a senior aviculturist at the Aquarium and cares for birds and reptiles.
11.04.2019
Jason Smith - Metals for the Future
Dr. Jason Smith recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on November 19, 2019. Dr. Smith is lead environmental scientist at DeepGreen Resources.
11.04.2019
Barbara Taylor - Vanishing Vaquitas
Dr. Barbara Taylor recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on November 12, 2019. Dr. Taylor is the leader of the Marine Mammal Genetics Program at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Southwest Fisheries Science Center and chair of the Marine...
11.04.2019
Danielle Eubank - One Artist, Five Oceans
Danielle Eubank recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on November 5, 2019. Eubank is a painter and member of The Explorer’s Club, and a 2018 Creative Climate Awards nominee.
09.24.2019
Lee McIntyre - The Scientific Attitude
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.
09.04.2019
Yi Chao - Underwater Drones to Discover the Unknowns
Dr. Yi Chao recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on September 24, 2019. Dr. Chao is the founder and CEO of Seatrec.
09.04.2019
Chris Corpus - Land of the Blue Sky: How Mongolia’s Conservation Efforts Can Inform Ocean Conservation
Chris Corpus recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on September 19, 2019. Corpus is Aquarium’s audio visual production manager, producing the Aquarium’s web series, films, and documentaries.
07.22.2019
Ken Kurtis - Journey to the Island of Yap: Stone Money, Massive Manta Rays, and More
Ken Kurtis recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on August 20, 2019. Kurtis has been an Aquarium volunteer since 1998. He is a dive team leader at the Aquarium and a National Association of Underwater Instructors SCUBA instructor.
07.22.2019
Mike Bartick - Exotic Animals of the Night Sea
Mike Bartick recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on August 14, 2019. Bartick is a field guide who conducts photo safaris, lectures, and seminars.
07.22.2019
Kathayoon Khalil - The People Problem: Including Social Sciences in Wildlife Conservation
Kathayoon Khalil recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on August 8, 2019. Khalil is the principal evaluator for the Seattle Aquarium.
06.28.2019
Jennifer Brandon - “No, It’s Not Actually an Island”: What Studying the Great Pacific Garbage Patch Taught Me About Being a Science Communicator
Jennifer Brandon recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on July 24, 2019. Brandon has a Ph.D. in biological oceanography from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. She recently completed an eighteen-month stint as the Price Postdoctoral Fellow in science communication and...
06.28.2019
Shawn Maestretti and Leigh Adams - Climate Reality: Regeneration of the Landscape
Shawn Maestretti and Leigh Adams recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on July 17, 2019. Maestretti is a landscape architect, arborist, and principal of Shawn Maestretti Garden Architecture. Adams is a horticultural interpreter at the Los Angeles County Arboretum and...
05.28.2019
Kim Steinhardt - The Sea Otter Survival Story: A Human Obstacle Course
Kim Steinhardt recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on June 27, 2019. Steinhardt is a former administrative law judge turned environmental writer and marine wildlife photographer.
05.28.2019
Paul Erickson - Don’t Mess With Me: The Strange Lives of Venomous Sea Creatures
Paul Erickson recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on June 11, 2019. Erickson is a freelance writer and exhibit developer and works as an educator and aquarist on the Endeavour research vessel based in Salem, Massachusetts.
05.28.2019
Edward Barbier - The Water Paradox
Edward Barbier recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on May 30, 2019. Barbier is a professor in the department of economics at Colorado State University and a senior scholar in the School of Global Environmental Sustainability.
02.25.2019
Manuel Pastor - State of Resistance: What California’s Dizzying Descent and Remarkable Resurgence Mean for America’s Future
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).
02.25.2019
Sam Muka - Stability in a Changing World: The Role of the Public Aquarium in 20th Century Marine Biological Research
Sam Muka recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on March 19, 2019. Muka is an assistant professor in the Science and Technology Studies program at the Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, New Jersey.
02.25.2019
Joshua Goldstein - What Role Should Nuclear Power Play in Solving Climate Change?
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.
01.28.2019
Sara Mandel - Penguin Conservation in South Africa
Sara Mandel recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on February 28, 2019. Mandel is an aviculturist at the Aquarium of the Pacific.
01.28.2019
Jessica Whited - Studying Salamanders to Decipher Nature’s Instruction Manual for Regenerating Limbs
Jessica Whited recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on February 19, 2019. Whited is an assistant professor of stem cell and regenerative biology at Harvard University.
01.28.2019
James Gesualdi - Shifting from Being Right to Doing Right for Animals
James Gesualdi recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on February 13, 2019. Gesualdi is an animal welfare attorney based in New York.
01.28.2019
Katie Finch - The Great Lakes Piping Plover: Conservation through Collaboration
Katie Finch recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on February 5, 2019. Finch is a mammalogist at the Aquarium of the Pacific.
12.20.2018
Curtis Marean - Survivors on the Edge of Land and Sea: How Coastal Life Shaped the Evolution of Our Species
Curtis Marean recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on January 16, 2019. Marean is a professor at Arizona State University’s Institute of Human Origins and School of Human Evolution and Social Change.
12.20.2018
Jeremy Jackson - Breakpoint: Reckoning With America’s Environmental Crises
Jeremy Jackson recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on January 9, 2019. Jackson is an emeritus professor at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography and a senior scientist emeritus at the Smithsonian Institution.
10.22.2018
Scott Nichols - Aquaculture Innovations: Doing More With Less
Scott Nichols recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on November 13, 2018. Nichols is the founder of Food's Future, an aquaculture consultancy.
10.22.2018
William Cooper - The Butterflies of Iguazú Falls, Argentina
William Cooper recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on November 6, 2018. Cooper is a former professor of civil and environmental engineering at the University of California, Irvine, and program director of environmental engineering at the National Science Foundation.
10.22.2018
Mike Mitchell - Reinventing the Devil Fish in Mexico
Mike Mitchell recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on November 1, 2018. Mitchell is the co-founder and CEO of Acarí Fish.
09.24.2018
Greg Rau - Sea Change Needed in Managing the Ocean and the Planet
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.
09.24.2018
Anne Cohen - Where the Living Reefs Are: A Quest to Find the World’s Most Resilient Corals
Anne Cohen recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on October 11, 2018. Cohen is an associate scientist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.
09.24.2018
Ester Quintana - The Urban Whale: How the Right Whale Population Ended Up on the Brink of Extinction
Ester Quintana recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on October 2, 2018. Dr. Quintana is a research scientist at the Anderson Cabot Center for Ocean Life at the New England Aquarium.
09.19.2018
Rob Mortensen and Katherine Finch - Pacific Island Bird Conservation
Rob Mortensen and Katherine Finch recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on September 19, 2018. Mortensen is the Aquarium's curator of mammals and birds and Finch is a mammalogist.
08.30.2018
Dr. Randi Rotjan - Science and Conservation in the Largest and Deepest World Heritage Site: A Natural Laboratory for Global Change
Dr. Randi Rotjan recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on September 20, 2018. Dr. Rotjan is a research assistant professor at Boston University and co-chief scientist of the PIPA Conservation Trust.
08.30.2018
Andrew Policano - From Ivory Tower to Glass House: Strategies for Academic Leaders During Turbulent Times
Andrew Policano recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on September 13, 2018. Policano is former dean and professor emeritus of economics and public policy at The Paul Merage School of Business, University of California, Irvine.
07.30.2018
Dr. Sandy Trautwein - Twenty Years of Achievements in Husbandry and Conservation
Dr. Sandy Trautwein recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on August 30, 2018. Dr. Trautwein is the Aquarium's vice president of husbandry.
07.30.2018
James Danoff-Burg - Community-Based Conservation
Dr. James Danoff-Burg recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on August 23, 2018. Dr. Danoff-Burg is the director of conservation at The Living Desert in Palm Desert, California.
07.30.2018
Drew Lohrer - Science Under the Ice: Dive with Coastal Marine Ecologists Under Sea Ice in Antarctica
Dr. Drew Lohrer recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on August 16, 2018. He is a principal marine ecologist at the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research in New Zealand.
07.30.2018
Gregory Barord - Conservation in the Deep Sea: The Perilous Story of the Chambered Nautilus
Gregory Barord recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on August 14, 2018. Barord is a conservation biologist for Save the Nautilus and the marine biology instructor for Des Moines Public Schools’ Central Campus.
07.30.2018
John Fraser - Conservation Momentum
John Fraser recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on August 7, 2018. Fraser is president and CEO of NewKnowledge, a social science think tank aimed at building healthy democracy and a thriving biosphere.
06.22.2018
Mike Bartick - Blackwater Diving: Exploring the Night Sea
Mike Bartick recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on July 31, 2018. Bartick is an avid diver and photographer whose work concentrates on the macro fauna of the Verde Island Pass located near Anilao, Philippines.
06.22.2018
Tapan Pathak - Climate Change and California’s Agriculture
Tapan Pathak recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on July 26, 2018. Pathak serves as cooperative extension specialist in climate adaptation in agriculture at the University of California Division of Agriculture and Resources and UC Merced.
06.22.2018
Tyler Phelps - Deep Beneath the Sea: Exploring the Twilight Zone
Tyler Phelps recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on July 10, 2018. Phelps is a graduate student with the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco pursuing mesophotic fish ecology research as part of their global Hope for Reefs Initiative.
05.29.2018
Holly Buck - Climate Geoengineering: What Could It Mean for Human and Ocean Life?
Holly Buck recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on June 28, 2018. Buck is a researcher at UCLA’s Institute of the Environment and Sustainability. She completed a Ph.D. on environmental sociology and emerging technologies at Cornell University.
05.29.2018
Dominique Rissolo - Submerged Ice Age America: The View from Yucatan
Dominique Rissolo recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on June 12, 2018. Rissolo is an assistant researcher at the University of California, San Diego’s Qualcomm Institute.
05.29.2018
Albert George - The Resilience Imperative
Albert George recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on June 7, 2018. George is the director of conservation at the South Carolina Aquarium.
04.18.2018
Danna Staaf - Cephalopods are the New Dinosaurs: A Squid’s-Eye View of the History of Life
Danna Staaf recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on May 15, 2018. She is a science writer and educator and the author of Squid Empire: The Rise and Fall of the Cephalopods.

What's Aquarium of the Pacific AquaCast about?

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Aquarium of the Pacific AquaCast episodes:

Andrew Reeves - Unwitting Helpers: The Strange, True Story of How Silent Spring and the Clean Water Act Gave Rise to Asian Carp in America

Nate Jaros and Briana Fodor - Coral Reef Restoration in Palau and the Bahamas

David Bader - A Story About People and Place: Lessons Learned in Vaquita Conservation

Josie Iselin - The Curious World of Seaweed

Ellen Prager - Galápagos Wonders

Susan Gerros - Saving Birds in the Northern Mariana Islands

Jason Smith - Metals for the Future

Barbara Taylor - Vanishing Vaquitas

Danielle Eubank - One Artist, Five Oceans

Lee McIntyre - The Scientific Attitude

Yi Chao - Underwater Drones to Discover the Unknowns

Chris Corpus - Land of the Blue Sky: How Mongolia’s Conservation Efforts Can Inform Ocean Conservation

Ken Kurtis - Journey to the Island of Yap: Stone Money, Massive Manta Rays, and More

Mike Bartick - Exotic Animals of the Night Sea

Kathayoon Khalil - The People Problem: Including Social Sciences in Wildlife Conservation

Jennifer Brandon - “No, It’s Not Actually an Island”: What Studying the Great Pacific Garbage Patch Taught Me About Being a Science Communicator

Shawn Maestretti and Leigh Adams - Climate Reality: Regeneration of the Landscape

Kim Steinhardt - The Sea Otter Survival Story: A Human Obstacle Course

Paul Erickson - Don’t Mess With Me: The Strange Lives of Venomous Sea Creatures

Edward Barbier - The Water Paradox

Manuel Pastor - State of Resistance: What California’s Dizzying Descent and Remarkable Resurgence Mean for America’s Future

Sam Muka - Stability in a Changing World: The Role of the Public Aquarium in 20th Century Marine Biological Research

Joshua Goldstein - What Role Should Nuclear Power Play in Solving Climate Change?

Sara Mandel - Penguin Conservation in South Africa

Jessica Whited - Studying Salamanders to Decipher Nature’s Instruction Manual for Regenerating Limbs

James Gesualdi - Shifting from Being Right to Doing Right for Animals

Katie Finch - The Great Lakes Piping Plover: Conservation through Collaboration

Curtis Marean - Survivors on the Edge of Land and Sea: How Coastal Life Shaped the Evolution of Our Species

Jeremy Jackson - Breakpoint: Reckoning With America’s Environmental Crises

Scott Nichols - Aquaculture Innovations: Doing More With Less

William Cooper - The Butterflies of Iguazú Falls, Argentina

Mike Mitchell - Reinventing the Devil Fish in Mexico

Greg Rau - Sea Change Needed in Managing the Ocean and the Planet

Anne Cohen - Where the Living Reefs Are: A Quest to Find the World’s Most Resilient Corals

Ester Quintana - The Urban Whale: How the Right Whale Population Ended Up on the Brink of Extinction

Rob Mortensen and Katherine Finch - Pacific Island Bird Conservation

Dr. Randi Rotjan - Science and Conservation in the Largest and Deepest World Heritage Site: A Natural Laboratory for Global Change

Andrew Policano - From Ivory Tower to Glass House: Strategies for Academic Leaders During Turbulent Times

Dr. Sandy Trautwein - Twenty Years of Achievements in Husbandry and Conservation

James Danoff-Burg - Community-Based Conservation

Drew Lohrer - Science Under the Ice: Dive with Coastal Marine Ecologists Under Sea Ice in Antarctica

Gregory Barord - Conservation in the Deep Sea: The Perilous Story of the Chambered Nautilus

John Fraser - Conservation Momentum

Mike Bartick - Blackwater Diving: Exploring the Night Sea

Tapan Pathak - Climate Change and California’s Agriculture

Tyler Phelps - Deep Beneath the Sea: Exploring the Twilight Zone

Holly Buck - Climate Geoengineering: What Could It Mean for Human and Ocean Life?

Dominique Rissolo - Submerged Ice Age America: The View from Yucatan

Albert George - The Resilience Imperative

Danna Staaf - Cephalopods are the New Dinosaurs: A Squid’s-Eye View of the History of Life