Lecture date: June 25, 2020. Luke Fairbanks explores insights from the social and policy sciences to better understand the processes, challenges, and opportunities associated with marine aquaculture.
Lecture date: November 19, 2019. Dr. Jason Smith discusses polymetallic nodules in the global context as an alternative to traditional terrestrial mining.
Lecture date: November 12, 2019. Dr. Barbara Taylor discusses the endangered vaquita porpoise and what conservation lessons we should learn if we want to share our coastal and river waters with porpoises and dolphins.
Lecture date: October 8, 2019. Lee McIntyre discusses his concept of the scientific attitude, which includes openness to new ideas, but skepticism until those ideas have been tested against the evidence.
Lecture date: October 7, 2019. In a presentation co-sponsored by the Aquarium and The Nature Conservancy, experts from the University of California, Santa Cruz, and France's University of Montpellier discuss sea level rise in Long Beach.
Lecture date: September 19, 2019. Chris Corpus will share stories from his studies with endangered species in the Mongolian steppe, including wild cats and wild horses, and discuss what Mongolian conservation efforts can reveal about ocean conservation.
Lecture date: August 20, 2019. Ken Kurtis shares his stories, photos, and videos from his nearly twenty years of annual travels to the Pacific island of Yap, located between Guam and Palau.
Lecture date: August 14, 2019. Mike Bartick shares photos and stories from his experiences exploring the ocean at night.
1 hr 14 min
About Lecture Archive 2019
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Through its year-round Guest Speaker Series, the Long Beach, California-based Aquarium of the Pacific helps visitors to learn about the most current and pressing issues related to the ocean and…
environment. 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. These hour-long video podcasts present the lectures in full, including the speakers’ slideshow presentations.