Ocean Science Radio

Plastics have contaminated our oceans, from microplastic to big honking pieces. Vicky and Andrew chat with someone who swam across the ocean to draw awareness to the issue and a woman who is launching a (hopefully) growing effort to remove unclaimed nets from the Pacific. 

We spoke with Ben Lecomte and the Vortex Swim team as they made their landing in San Francisco. The 51-year-old became the first person to swim 1,753 miles across the Pacific Ocean, through the Pacific Garbage patch. The voyage was to draw attention to the  issue and damage of plastic pollution. 

Also interviewed was Mary Crowley, founder of the Ocean Voyages Institute. The crew removed roughly 40 tons of derelict fishing gear and has plans to collect another 400 tons in the next year. 

Additional music, "Amazing Plan" and "Secret of Tiki Island," by Keven MacLeod (https://incompetech.com)  

A very special report was recently released by the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change on the "Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate." We bring together a panel of scientists to find out, what the heck is happening in the ocean? What is this collection of over 1000 pages of science saying and what does it mean to us? Most importantly, where do we go from here?

Guests include:
Priya Shukla of UC Davis - @priyology
George H. Leonard of Ocean Conservancy - @GeorgeHLeonard
John Bruno of UNC-Chapel Hill - @JohnFBruno
Tessa Hill of UC Davis - @Tessa_M_Hill

*Hosts are: *
Andrew Kornblatt - @akornblatt
Vicky Vásquez - @VickySharky

Papers we cited:
SROCC Summary for Policy Makers

The rise and fall of infectious disease in a warmer world.

Ocean Outbreak by Drew Harvell

Disease epidemic and a marine heat wave are associated with the continental-scale collapse of a pivotal predator.

Increases and decreases in marine disease reports in an era of global change.

Blue Growth Potential to Mitigate Climate Change through Seaweed Offsetting

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Andrew Kornblatt sits down with Ocean Planet Conference organizer Dr. Armin Ellis and conference speaker Dr. Dominic D’Agostino for a reddit AMA.

The team explores the reproduction cycle of sea spiders, leeches, and a love story.

With Vicky Vasquez, Andrew Kornblatt, Skylar Baer interviewing Dr. Bonnie Bain & Fred Govedich

Dive into the strange world of the gonad collecting Angler fish and the possibly sexless Bdelloid Rotifers.

The Ocean Science Radio team, again joined by Skylar Bayer, interview Dr. Chris Wilson - a research fellow in evolutionary biology at Imperial College London- and Dr. Matt Davis, an associate professor of biology at St. Cloud’s University.

The team explores the reproductive cycle of Jellyfish, takes a deep dive into the Immortal Turritopsis Dohrnii, and gets their minds blown with the explosive sex of Larvaceans.

Joined by Skylar Bayer, the team speaks with Dr. Rebecca R Helm Assistant professor at the University of North Carolina, Asheville and Dr. Lisa-Ann Gershwin, a biologist based in Launceston, Tasmania, who has described over 200 species of jellyfish.

In the second of the Ocean Lovin' 2 series, the Ocean Science Radio team is joined again by Skylar Bayer of StricktlyFishwrapped Radio Hour to take a deep dive on transexual clownfish.

Guest is Justin Rhodes, associate professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Just in time for Valentines Day, a new round of Ocean Lovin' with Skylar Bayer is kicked off with a deep dive into the sex changing lives of Parrotfish.

Guests include Dr. Josh Drew and Dr. Marah Hardt.

The team takes an incredible journey into the world of 3D scanned specimens.

Guests include #Scanallfish star Dr. Adam Summers of the University of Washington, Thadeus Beuser of Oregon State University, and Ben Frable of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography.

The Ocean Science Radio team meets MARE, a ROV and ocean science company in the California Bay Area who is studying marine protected areas up and down the west coast with a fleet of tools including the BATFISH!

Learn more at MAREGroup.org