Ocean Science Radio

By Ocean Science Radio

What's Ocean Science Radio about?

Ocean Science Radio is a joint project between Andrew Kornblatt, founder and host of the Online Ocean Symposium, and Naomi Frances Farabaugh of FIU.

Previous co-host was Samantha Wishnak, Digital Media Coordinator at Ocean Exploration Trust. The program will focus on and highlight the latest and greatest ocean science stories that the world has to offer.

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Ocean Science Radio episodes:

04.25.2024
Opening a Can of (Fish) Worms)
Today on the show we're diving into a story that might surprise you. It doesn't involve dazzling coral reefs or majestic whales, but something a little closer to home... canned salmon! In this episode, we’ll be discussing how Dr. Natalie...
03.28.2024
Underwater Superstructures for Beginners
In this episode, we talk about ocean superstructures - a new scientific phrase that our guests hope start up some important conversations about how the bottom of the ocean was formed. Guests: Dr. Kevin Konrad -Assistant Professor of Geoscience and...
02.29.2024
Ocean Lovin - Immaculate Shark-ception
It is February and we once again have our seasonal episode of Ocean Lovin - covering cool and strange ways ocean creatures make little ocean creatures. We speak with Dr. Christine Dungeon, a senior research fellow at the University...
01.31.2024
Bottom trawling and the Great Carbon Sink
The ocean is a vast and powerful carbon sink, absorbing about a quarter of the carbon dioxide we emit into the atmosphere. That carbon is pulled into the water column and is also buried under the layers of dirt and...
12.28.2023
Uncharted - Scientists with Disabilities Navigating Their Experiences
People with disabilities are often marginalized, face isolation, lack representation and even ablism, no matter the industry or space. We speak to an old friend of the show about how this shows up in STEM and academia, and a project...
11.30.2023
Don Walsh Revisisted
With the passing of Ocean Explorer and all around nice guy Don Walsh, we wanted to revisit our episode where we interviewed him about the anniversary of the Triseste dive.
10.26.2023
OceanX - Amphoras, Exploration, and Bioluminescence
Dr. Farabaugh is out sick so this episode is solo Andrew. We speak with Mattie Rodrique - the Science program Director for OceanX- about their work in ocean exploration, discovery, and storytelling while ALSO training the next generation of ocean...
09.28.2023
Ocean Exploration Trust - Live Streamed Deep Sea Exploration with the EV Nautilus
Have you ever wanted to explore the bottom of the ocean? Discover new crazy and beautiful species? Have you ever wanted to explore the remains of a sunken ship, lost to time? Well good news! Today, we're going to be...
08.31.2023
A Port of Firsts - The Port of San Diego's Maritime Clean Air Strategy
The Port of San Diego has been making incredible strides with its Maritime Clean Air Strategy which is rather comprehensive ranging from cool tech to green practices to amazing economic incentives. The Ocean Science Radio team chatted with Rafael...
07.28.2023
Dolphins vs Sharks
Some new shark shows just dropped and you KNOW you want to check them out. From Discovery's Shark Week to Nat Geo's pieces there will be plenty of amazing shark content! From Sharkcano: Hawaii to Sharks vs Dolphins: Bahama...
06.29.2023
The Iberian Orca Uprising
You may have heard about it in the news, you may have seen the memes on social media but no mater what, it appears that there is a group of orcas that have gone rogue. These cetaceans around the Iberian...
05.31.2023
Let Your Freak Flag Fly in Science Communication
We get to chat with Brooke Fitzwater, a PhD Student in the Earley Lab of the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa who has made a big splash with her unique approach to science communication and learn about how she researches...
04.27.2023
Bottom-Water Ocean Heat Waves
We are diving into deep ocean heatwaves. These extreme warming events in the ocean's depths have been linked to changes in ocean currents, weather patterns, and marine life, and we are learning more and more about the what and possibly...
03.30.2023
Sargassum Madness - The Case of the Appearance of a Giant Blob in the Atlantic
Something strange is growing in the middle of the Atlantic, it covers an insane amount of the surface, it smells of rotten eggs and it might be COMING FOR OUR BEACHES. While the truth of the matter isn’t as scary...
02.23.2023
Ocean Lovin - We got (snow) crabs
It is February and it is time once again for our annual special on reproduction called Ocean Lovin. In this episode we talk about Snow Crab reproduction. You may have seen Snow Crabs popping up in the news recently.This is...
01.31.2023
WildAid's Mission to Create Locally Driven and Directed Enforced MPAs Around the World
Marine Protected Areas are areas of the ocean where a government has placed limits on human activity. These areas range from no-take, no-impact, no-access, and multiple use - basically determining how much human impact is supposed to take place in...
12.29.2022
Polar Fever and the Effort to Capture the Wonder and Importance of the Poles
In this episode, we speak with science writer Shannon Stirone and Berkeley writing professor Ryan Sloan about their experiences being sent to the poles to try and capture the wonder of these locations to share with others.
11.29.2022
FathomNet - AI helping us analyze and understand the ocean
With better and more affordable remote-operated vehicle and video technology, more data and footage is being collected every day. But that leads to another problem, how do you analyze petabytes worth of data? Join us on this episode of Ocean...
10.27.2022
Ocean Pollination and the Incredible Red Algae Munching Isopod
The team speaks with Dr. Valero and Emma Lavaut, a graduate student at Sorbonne, who conducted an experiment to try and figure out the relationship between Gracilaria gracilis and the tiny crustaceans who feed on them. Come learn how isopods...
09.29.2022
The California Current Marine Ecosystem and our changing world
Throughout the ocean, there are currents that act like giant, underwater highways. These currents transport nutrients, heat, carbon, and even animals and plankton across vast ocean spans. On this episode, we speak to a triumvirate of experts from McGill...
08.30.2022
Cephalopunch - The Case of the Interspecies Hunting Party Smack
The crew speaks with Octopus researcher Dr. Eduardo Sampaio. Eduardo got his PhD studying octopus behavior, cognition, and social contexts and is a Nat Geo Explorer. Eduardo and his team studied octopuses in interspecies hunting parties that included eels and...
07.28.2022
Ocean Aero and the Autonomous Underwater and Surface Vehicle Triton
In this episode the team is covering the latest exciting development out of the AUV/ROV market, Ocean Aero’s Triton. We interview Kevin Decker, the CEO of Ocean Aero and Andy Ziegwied, the Vice President of ocean data for Ocean...
06.30.2022
Salesforce's Ocean Sustainability Initiative
The month of June is National Ocean month in the United States and June 8th was World Oceans Day. Organizations across the globe use World Oceans Day and the month of June to make announcements on initiatives and commitments that...
05.26.2022
The Squidmobile, going viral, and the free labor problem in science communication
The team speaks with Dr Sarah McAnulty, a squid biologist, and the executive director of Skype a Scientist about going viral, cephalopods, and how our world seems to expect free labor from the science communication community.
04.28.2022
The Blue Economy and the 100 companies who own the ocean
We explore the ocean economy with the help of Henrik Österblom, science director at Stockholm University and also a professor of environmental sciences. and John Virdin, director of the ocean policy research program at Duke University's Nicholas Institute for...
03.10.2022
March Mammal Madness and Storytelling in Science
March Mammal Madness, the annual tournament of imaginary combat pitting species against species is back, in its 9th year. Organizers cite scientific literature to substantiate likely outcomes when two species fight in glorious battle in environments both suited for their...
02.25.2022
Ocean Lovin 2022 - Monterey Bay Aquarium and Jellybabbies
It is February which means it is time for another episode of OCEAN LOVIN'. This time we speak with Michael Howard, Senior Aquarist at the Monterey Bay Aquarium about the reproductive strategies of deep-water hydrozoan jellies, and other related species,...
01.27.2022
Ocean Heat and the Zetajoule
Every year the ocean absorbs ludicrous amounts of energy, even more as a result of climate change and global warming. The team sits down with distinguished scholar Keven Trenbert of the National Center of Atmospheric Research about the recent paper...
12.23.2021
2021 Year in Review
Frances and Andrew let their hair down and do a quick review of some of the stories that made the ocean news pipeline in 2021. Stories include, but are not limited to, the UN Decade of the Ocean, 30 by...
11.18.2021
Coral Mapping with Satellites and Beyond
The team speaks with two experts from The Nature Conservancy; Steven R. Schill - Lead Scientist and Valerie McNulty - Spatial Ecologist about their work developing multi-layered and rich Caribbean benthic maps. Learn about how these maps are created and...
10.30.2021
Experiment Foundation - Microgrants for Science
10.14.2021
October 2021 Mini Episode
Welcome to the miniepisode where we give you a few updates for the month! Got an idea for the podcast? Want to ask a question? Email us at [email protected].
09.23.2021
Talk Like a Pirate Day is a Lie, and Other Piratey Things
Frances and Andrew sit down with Dr. Jamie Goodall, military historian, expert on golden age piracy, and author of the book Pirates of the Chesapeake Bay: From the Colonial Era to the Oyster Wars. We learn about our misconceptions of...
08.31.2021
The Godzilla Shark and Sharkcon
A familiar voice returns to the show, our former co-host shark scientist Vicky Vásquez comes at us with a live report from the New Mexico Museum of Natural History. There she gets introduced to one of the best-preserved examples of...
07.30.2021
Saving Whales in the Digital Age
Every year off the coast of California, Oregon, and Washington, approximately 18 blue whales, 22 humpbacks, and 43 fin whales are hit and killed by ships. On the east coast of the United States, it is estimated that nearly...
07.15.2021
July Minisode - Updates, Email, and Shark Awareness Day
Welcome to the miniepisode where we give you a few updates for the month! Got an idea for the podcast? Want to ask a question? Email us at [email protected].
06.24.2021
Blue Nature Alliance and the Quest to Protect 7 Million Square Miles of the Ocean
The Blue Nature Alliance is a global partnership founded and led by Conservation International, The Pew Charitable Trusts, The Global Environment Facility, Minderoo Foundation, and the Rob & Melani Walton Foundation. It is is staffed by former MPA managers,...
05.28.2021
May Mini Episode - Updates, Email, and V.ECOP
Welcome to the miniepisode where we give you a few updates for the month!
04.22.2021
National Science Foundation's Networked Blue Economy Ocean Accelerator
The NSF has launched an accelerator program - the Networked Blue Economy Convergence Accelerator, a $30 million grant program now open for team proposals. Teams with the best ideas receive an investment of up to $5.75M over three years....
03.25.2021
Ocean Policy Under the Biden Administration and Why There is Room to Hope
We speak with ocean policy experts Miriam Goldstein and Jean Flemma about what the Biden administration has already put on the table for the ocean, what is coming down the pipeline, and how people can get involved.
02.25.2021
Ocean Lovin 2021 - The Sex Lives of Nudibranchs
This episode of our running series on reproduction in the sea we take a deep dive into the sex lives of the tiny charismatic creatures, nudibranchs. Come learn about "sex balls," detachable sexual organs, and sexual cannibalism...
02.16.2021
Ocean Lovin 2021 - Shipworms
We speak with Dr. Reuben Shipway, a Research (Centre for Enzyme Innovation) and Teaching Fellow (Marine Biology) at the University of Portsmouth, and Adjunct Assistant Research Professor (Microbiology Department) at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA. His research focuses on...
01.28.2021
The United Nations Decade of the Ocean
Andrew and Frances interview Taylor Goelz, the outgoing Knauss fellow who has been working on the UN decade of Ocean Science for sustainable development, a 10-year initiative to transform ocean science and more!
12.31.2020
Black in Marine Science Week
From November 29th to December 5th a new tradition was started. A digital event bringing together the Black in Marine Science Community in solidarity and togetherness. We interviewed one of the founders of the event and two up and coming...
12.01.2020
Diving with a Purpose and the Hunt for Sunken Slave Ships
Of the over 12,000 ships making more than 40,000 voyages over 250 years of slave trade, hundreds sunk to the bottom of the ocean but barely a handful have been explored and cataloged. The Ocean Science Radio team sits down...
10.29.2020
Sharktober 2020 with Melissa Cristina Márquez
It is October and the white sharks are flocking to the west coast again. It is time for the annual episodes highlighting the cool shark and elasmobranch stories, SHARKTOBER!
09.28.2020
SeaTrec - Harnessing Energy from the Ocean
You've heard of wave and tidal energy, but bobbing energy? Wha?
06.08.2020
World Oceans Day 2020
A tour through some of the ocean stories that came up in 2019 for #WorldOceansDay
05.28.2020
SunFish the Multifaceted Underwater Robot
From the Texas Hill Country, to underwater caves in Africa, the Arctic Ice Sheet, and even moons covered in icy oceans, the Sunfish is an exceptional Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) with field proven Artificial Intelligence and Simultaneous Localization and Mapping.
04.23.2020
Deep Sea Mining and the Coronavirus
In this episode, we explore the relationship between renewable energy and our cell phones, the perpetually nascent deep-ocean mining industry, and the Coronavirus. We also learn how working together before the industry has started extracting resources that stakeholders, industry, and...

What's Ocean Science Radio about?

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Ocean Science Radio episodes:

Opening a Can of (Fish) Worms)

Underwater Superstructures for Beginners

Ocean Lovin - Immaculate Shark-ception

Bottom trawling and the Great Carbon Sink

Uncharted - Scientists with Disabilities Navigating Their Experiences

Don Walsh Revisisted

OceanX - Amphoras, Exploration, and Bioluminescence

Ocean Exploration Trust - Live Streamed Deep Sea Exploration with the EV Nautilus

A Port of Firsts - The Port of San Diego's Maritime Clean Air Strategy

Dolphins vs Sharks

The Iberian Orca Uprising

Let Your Freak Flag Fly in Science Communication

Bottom-Water Ocean Heat Waves

Sargassum Madness - The Case of the Appearance of a Giant Blob in the Atlantic

Ocean Lovin - We got (snow) crabs

WildAid's Mission to Create Locally Driven and Directed Enforced MPAs Around the World

Polar Fever and the Effort to Capture the Wonder and Importance of the Poles

FathomNet - AI helping us analyze and understand the ocean

Ocean Pollination and the Incredible Red Algae Munching Isopod

The California Current Marine Ecosystem and our changing world

Cephalopunch - The Case of the Interspecies Hunting Party Smack

Ocean Aero and the Autonomous Underwater and Surface Vehicle Triton

Salesforce's Ocean Sustainability Initiative

The Squidmobile, going viral, and the free labor problem in science communication

The Blue Economy and the 100 companies who own the ocean

March Mammal Madness and Storytelling in Science

Ocean Lovin 2022 - Monterey Bay Aquarium and Jellybabbies

Ocean Heat and the Zetajoule

2021 Year in Review

Coral Mapping with Satellites and Beyond

Experiment Foundation - Microgrants for Science

October 2021 Mini Episode

Talk Like a Pirate Day is a Lie, and Other Piratey Things

The Godzilla Shark and Sharkcon

Saving Whales in the Digital Age

July Minisode - Updates, Email, and Shark Awareness Day

Blue Nature Alliance and the Quest to Protect 7 Million Square Miles of the Ocean

May Mini Episode - Updates, Email, and V.ECOP

National Science Foundation's Networked Blue Economy Ocean Accelerator

Ocean Policy Under the Biden Administration and Why There is Room to Hope

Ocean Lovin 2021 - The Sex Lives of Nudibranchs

Ocean Lovin 2021 - Shipworms

The United Nations Decade of the Ocean

Black in Marine Science Week

Diving with a Purpose and the Hunt for Sunken Slave Ships

Sharktober 2020 with Melissa Cristina Márquez

SeaTrec - Harnessing Energy from the Ocean

World Oceans Day 2020

SunFish the Multifaceted Underwater Robot

Deep Sea Mining and the Coronavirus

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