NOAA: Ocean Shorts

The Ocean Shorts podcast has retired, but have no fear! We combined our Ocean Shorts, Diving Deeper,and Making Waves pods into one NEW podcast called NOAA Ocean. Subscribe in your favorite podcatcher so you never miss an episode. Just search for "NOAA Ocean." If you are looking for an older Ocean Shorts podcast, head to oceanservice.noaa.gov/podcast to view our archive.

The Ocean Shorts podcast has retired, but have no fear! We combined our Ocean Shorts, Diving Deeper,and Making Waves podcasts into one NEW podcast called NOAA Ocean. Subscribe to the new podcast in your favorite podcatcher so you never miss an episode. Just search for "NOAA Ocean." If you are looking for an older Ocean Shorts podcast, head to oceanservice.noaa.gov/podcast to view our archive.

Coral reefs are under intense pressure from climate change, pollution, and unsustainable use. So what can we do about it? To answer that question, we need to better understand the main threat to our reefs. Humans. Tune in to this excerpt from a longer interview we posted back in March 2016 with NOAA social scientists Maria Dillard and Peter Edwards.

In this episode, we talk with a NOAA expert about how (and why) we forecast harmful algal blooms.

In this episode, we talk with a NOAA expert about how (and why) we forecast harmful algal blooms.

One hundred and four years ago this month, the RMS Titanic sank after striking an iceberg on her maiden voyage from the United Kingdom to New York City. In recognition of this tragedy, we present an interview with Jim Delgado, Director of Maritime Heritage with NOS's Office of National Marine Sanctuaries. This podcast is an excerpt from a special two-part podcast published in 2012.

In this episode, we look back at a November 2014 archaeological expedition led by the Office of National Marine Sanctuaries Maritime Heritage Program. This mission brought back the first-ever 3-D images of the City of Rio de Janeiro, considered by many historians as the "Titanic of the Golden Gate." Listen in to this conversation with NOAA's Robert Schwemmer, co-leader of a two-year study to locate and document shipwrecks in California’s Gulf of the Farallones National Marine Sanctuary and the surrounding area.

Have four minutes? Dive into our latest Ocean Shorts audio podcast as we explore what an invasive species is and how they are introduced to an area.

Dive into our latest Ocean Shorts podcast as we explore how marine debris moves in our environment and what causes it to move.

An effort to restore eelgrass beds along Virginia's eastern shore began with people painstakingly planting 200 acres of eelgrass seeds by hand. Today, these eelgrass meadows have grown to 6,195 acres — providing a home for an estimated 240,000 bay scallops!