Marine Conservation Happy Hour

Dr Scarlett Smash & Dr Craken MacCraic chat to Jim Martin of the Key West Trading Company about the Old Man of the Sea Ernest Hemingway and his secret booze smuggling days. Keep tuned for some fun cocktail suggestions at the end of the episode.

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Dr Scarlett Smash & Dr Craken MacCraic chat to Jim Martin of the Key West Trading Company about the history of that favourite tipple of pirates, writers and artists - absinthe. What is it and why was it made illegal. Like all good researchers they also ask about the science behind absinthe.

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An oceanography research vessel working to collect Antarctic deep-sea sediment cores pulls up something unexpected from the depths of the Southern Ocean... what has ocean science education got to do with eldritch horrors from the ocean depths - find out on this episode!

Dr Scarlett Smash & Dr Craken MacCraic chat to Kaitlin Statz and Travis Vengroff, the writers and producers of the White Vault podcast - which is one of Craken's favourite audio drama podcasts. They talk about the importance of getting the science right in science fiction and how their shows have featured ocean and archaeological science and real life experiences of field research.

To explore the horrors of the White Vault please visit: https://thewhitevault.com/

For the ocean horror series "Iluka" please visit: https://thewhitevault.com/product/iluka-full-version/

More about audio drama projects by Kaitlin and Travis can be found at: https://foolandscholar.com/about/

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Dr Scarlett Smash & Dr Craken MacCraic chat with Miranda Dziobak about the toxic chemicals from plastics that are being found in Florida's dolphins, and the threat that these chemicals pose to marine mammals.

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Dr Scarlett Smash & Dr Craken MacCraic discuss the recent right whale stranding in Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts and the continuing threat that shipping and lobster gear entanglement poses to endangered North Atlantic right whales.

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Dr Scarlett Smash & Dr Craken MacCraic chat to Dr. Luis Huckstadt about his research in Antarctica on the crabeater seal. What is it like to do research at the south pole and how does the life of a crabeater seal differ from other polar seals?

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Dr Scarlett Smash & Dr Craken MacCraic chat to Dr Mike Tift about his research on the physiology of marine mammals and the effects that their deep-diving life style have on them. Did you know elephant seals have so much carbon monoxide in their bodies it's like they smoked two packets of cigarettes a day? Find out how and why on this episode!

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Dr Scarlett Smash & Dr Craken MacCraic talk about the recent (allegedly) sighting of a baby Great white shark. Is it really the first sighting of a newborn great white?

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Dr Scarlett Smash & Dr Craken MacCraic are in Colonial Williamsburg visiting taverns and Dr Smash is four sheets to the wind. In this episode they talk about the dramatic decline in Chesapeake Bay ospreys. #drunkmarinescience

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Dr Scarlett Smash & Dr Craken MacCraic are recording a special episode in the haunted King's Arms Tavern in Colonial Williamsburg. In this episode they talk about ghosts, the capture of Blackbeard and his pirate crew, and how one of the first universities in the US got it's start thanks to pirate treasure.

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