Oceanography Vol. 1

By Aquarium of the Pacific

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What's Oceanography Vol. 1 about?

Get in-depth information about current research in the field of oceanography in these short video podcasts from the Aquarium of the Pacific. This Long Beach, California-based institution hosts visiting lecturers in its Guest Speaker Series throughout the year. 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.

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Oceanography Vol. 1 episodes:

11.12.2015
Coastal Resiliency in New York and New Jersey After Sandy
In this episode of Coastal Conversations, Aquarium President and CEO Jerry Schubel talks with Dr. Alan Blumberg, who has been working on coastal resiliency in New York and New Jersey with efforts to prepare for extreme weather, like Hurricane Sandy...
07.30.2015
Alan Blumberg
Alan Blumberg recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on July 21, 2015. Blumberg is the George Meade Bond Professor of Ocean Engineering and director of the Davidson Laboratory at Stevens Institute of Technology.
07.07.2015
Reinhard Flick
Reinhard Flick recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on July 1, 2015. Flick is a scientist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography.
07.07.2015
Dan Cayan
Dan Cayan recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on June 24, 2015. Cayan is a research meteorologist with the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego, and a researcher with the U.S. Geological Survey. He heads...
06.22.2015
Rick Spinrad
Rick Spinrad recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on March 3, 2015. Spinrad is chief scientist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
04.13.2015
Ken Buesseler
Ken Buesseler recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on March 11, 2015. Buesseler is a senior scientist in marine chemistry and geochemistry at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.
01.23.2015
Emily Yam
Emily Yam recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on January 22, 2015. Yam is the Aquarium’s science interpretation manager.
12.18.2014
Lincoln Paine
Lincoln Paine recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on September 24, 2014. He discussed humankind's relationship to the ocean throughout history and his book, The Sea and Civilization: A Maritime History of the World.
11.13.2014
El Niño Webcast
The Aquarium hosted a live webcast on November 13, 2014, with experts from NOAA and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to discuss the El Niño phenomenon and predictions for this winter's rainy season.
06.23.2014
Stephen and Anthony Palumbi
Father and son co-authors Stephen and Anthony Palumbi recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on June 12, 2014. They discuss the issues addressed in their book, The Extreme Life of the Sea.
04.01.2014
Dan Fornari
Dan Fornari recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on March 25, 2014. Fornari is a senior scientist in geology and geophysics at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.
12.20.2013
John Delaney
John Delaney recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on October 3, 2013. Delaney is a professor of oceanography at the University of Washington, principal investigator and director of the Regional Scale Nodes Program, and the Jerome M. Paros Endowed Chair...
08.30.2013
Larry Mayer
Larry Mayer recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on August 29, 2013. Larry Mayer is a professor and the director of the Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping at the University of New Hampshire.
08.02.2013
Dawn Wright
Aquacast recorded on July 16, 2013. Dawn Wright discusses new sophisticated technologies that have been developed in the last ten to twenty years that hold tremendous potential for mapping and interpreting the ocean in unprecedented detail.
08.02.2013
Nicholas Fisher
Aquacast recorded on June 19, 2013. Nicholas Fisher discusses the release of long-lived radionuclides from the Fukushima nuclear power plant in Japan into the Pacific and the subsequent bioaccumulation of these contaminants in diverse marine biota.
08.02.2013
Leslie Harris - Hitchhiking Aliens: Unexpected Consequences of the Japan Tsunami
Aquacast recorded at the Aquarium on May 7, 2013. After the earthquake and resulting tsunami that struck Japan in 2010, ocean currents and wind brought debris across the Pacific Ocean to the shores of the Pacific Northwest of the United...
08.02.2013
William Sargent
Aquacast recorded on April 2, 2013. William Sargent spoke about Atlantic coast storms and shared compelling stories from his book Beach Wars.
01.30.2013
Dean Wendt
California recently completed the designation of a new network of marine protected areas (MPAs) along its 800-mile coastline. The process has been heralded as a landmark event in marine resource management and conservation.
08.01.2012
Charles Moore
In 1997 Captain Charles Moore discovered plastic in the ocean in the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre. Dubbed the Great North Pacific Garbage Patch, this estimated three million tons of plastic debris is still growing in the Northeast Pacific between Hawaii...
07.29.2012
Bruce Perry
In his lecture on February 7, 2012, Bruce Perry covered the evolution of the Continental Borderland and its effects on the current circulation, wave action, and biology of the Southern California Bight (the Southern California coast running from Point Conception...
07.28.2012
Mark Jackson
In his talk with Jeanine Jones on January 25, 2012, Jackson discussed recent scientific discoveries are revealing new information about atmospheric rivers—the concentrated streams of moisture that originate over the Pacific Ocean and cause major winter floods in California. Jackson...
07.28.2012
Jeanine Jones
In her talk with Mark Jackson on January 25, 2012, Jones discussed recent scientific discoveries are revealing new information about atmospheric rivers—the concentrated streams of moisture that originate over the Pacific Ocean and cause major winter floods in California. Jones...
10.03.2011
Richard Feely
Dr. Richard Feely, who spoke on May 23, 2011, is a senior scientist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory in Seattle. He also holds an affiliate full professor faculty position at the University of Washington’s...
10.03.2011
James Lindholm
Dr. James Lindholm, who spoke at the Aquarium on April 27, 2011, is the James W. Rote Distinguished Professor of Marine Science and Policy and the founder and director of the Institute for Applied Marine Ecology at California State University,...
09.19.2011
Peter Ward
Peter Ward, who spoke at the Aquarium about the impacts of climate change on June 16, 2011, is a professor of biology and space sciences at the University of Washington in Seattle. His books include "Rare Earth: Why Complex Life...
09.19.2011
Clark Snodgrass
Clark Snodgrass, who spoke at the Aquarium on July 6, 2011, has twenty-five years of experience in aerospace systems engineering and development spanning numerous space programs at Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems. He currently serves as the Northrop Grumman director of...
09.07.2011
Alexander “Sandy” MacDonald
Dr. Alexander "Sandy" MacDonald, the inventor of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Science on a Sphere, spoke at the Aquarium on May 31, 2011. He is the deputy assistant administrator for Laboratories and Cooperative Institutes for the NOAA Office...
08.10.2011
William Sager
Dr. Sager is a professor of oceanography at Texas A and M University. His current research efforts are concentrated on geophysical studies of hotspots and ocean plateaus and how they formed and evolved, as well as magnetic anomaly interpretations and...
08.10.2011
Bruce Parker
Dr. Parker is presently a visiting professor at the Center for Maritime Systems at the Stevens Institute of Technology and is the former chief scientist of the National Ocean Service at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. He has a...
02.27.2011
Richard Somerville
Richard Somerville is a theoretical meteorologist and distinguished professor emeritus at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego. He earned his Ph.D from New York University and has received awards for both his research and his...
11.12.2010
Curtis Ebbesmeyer
Curtis Ebbesmeyer holds a Ph.D. in oceanography from the University of Washington and is regarded as an expert on ocean currents and floating objects. Each year, Curt presents a booth and talks at beachcomber fairs in Alaska, Florida, and Washington.
10.07.2010
Henry Pollack
Henry Pollack is professor emeritus of geophysics in the department of geological sciences at the University of Michigan. His current research focuses on the record of climate change as recorded by the temperatures in the rocks beneath the Earth’s surface....
08.12.2010
Wallace Broecker
A prolific researcher, teacher and author, Dr. Broecker has published over 400 scientific articles and is the author or coauthor of several textbooks. His most recent book is The Great Ocean Conveyor: Discovering the Trigger for Abrupt Climate Change.
08.11.2010
Jim Sanchirico
Sanchirico is a professor of environmental science and policy at the University of California, Davis and a nonresident fellow of Resources for the Future in Washington DC, non-profit environmental policy think-tank. He received his Ph.D. in agricultural and resource economics from...
06.23.2010
Rikk Kvitek
Rikk Kvitek is a Professor in the Division of Science and Environmental Policy, CSU Monterey Bay, where he also directs the CSUMB Seafloor Mapping Lab and CSU COAST Technology Center for Spatial Information Visualization and Analysis. Rikk obtained his Bachelor...
03.15.2010
Orrin H. Pilkey
Orrin Pilkey is a research professor and James B. Duke Professor Emeritus at the Duke University Nicholas School of the Environment. He has received a number of awards including the Shepard medal for excellence in Marine Geology, The Priestly Award...
01.20.2010
Monty Graham
Dr. William (Monty) Graham is a Senior Marine Scientist at the Dauphin Island Sea Lab near Mobile, Alabama. He received his doctorate in Biology from the University of California at Santa Cruz in 1994. Dr. Graham has broad expertise in...
12.14.2009
Bill Sargent
Bill Sargent is a consultant for the NOVA Science series and author of Sea Level Rise: The Chatham Story. Formerly Director of the Baltimore Aquarium and a research assistant at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Sargent has taught at...
10.19.2009
John Seager
Dr. Seager is the president and CEO of Population Connection. Dr. Seager believes there is a clear connection between human population growth and virtually every global challenge from poverty to climate change and from species extinction to the political instability...
10.19.2009
Charlie Zender
Professor Zender is an atmospheric physicist and educator. He leads the Climate, Health, Aerosols,Radiation, and Microphysics (CHARM) group in the Department of Earth System Science at UC Irvine. CHARM studies the distribution and fluxes of energy and trace species in...
09.14.2009
Reuben Margolin
Artist Reuben Margolin has spent the last ten years making kinetic sculptures inspired by wave motion. Seeking to combine the logic of mathematics with the sensuousness of nature, Reuben built a series of monumental mechanical mobiles that have been exhibited...
08.24.2009
Michael Welland
Dr. Welland, is the founder and director of Orogen Ltd., a consulting company based in London, England. He has been face-to- face with geology around the world from the Arctic to the dunes of the Gulf Kebir (Great Barrier) in...
05.06.2009
Rick Aster
At the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Aster is Professor of Geophysics, the Chair of Earth and Environmental Science, and the Geophysics Program Coordinator in the Department of Earth and Environmental Science. Aster earned his Masters in Geophysics...
02.24.2009
Gary Griggs
Dr. Griggs has been a professor of Earth Sciences at the University of California, Santa Cruz since 1968. He is presently the director of the Institute of Marine Sciences and also the chair of the University of California Marine Council....
02.20.2009
Daniel Botkin
Daniel Botkin is a scientist who studies life from a planetary perspective. He writes about nature, and is one of the world’s leading researchers who has helped solve major environmental issues. Dr. Botkin is a research professor in the Department...
02.10.2009
Margaret Leinen
Dr. Margaret Leinen is the Chief Science Officer of Climos, Inc., a company leveraging natural processes to reduce greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. Between 2000 and 2007, Dr. Leinen managed the Geosciences Directorate, the second largest at NSF, that...
06.16.2008
Rae and Wallis: Catch a Wave
Graeme Rae, PhD, is the product manager of and creative source behind Surfline.com, a popular online surfing website focusing on the East Coast. Kevin Wallis is the forecast manager and lead forecaster at Surfline where he develops and supervises...
01.11.2008
Richard West
Rear Admiral Richard West, USN (Re.) is president of the Consortium for Oceanographic Research and Education (CORE) division of the Consortium of Ocean Leadership whose mission is to advance research, education, and sound ocean policy. In his view of the...
01.11.2008
Conrad Lautenbacher: Global Climate Change
The National Ocean and Atmospheric Agency (NOAA), under the direction of Vice Admiral Conrad Lautenbacher, Jr., USN (Ret), is charged with analyzing and predicting the nation’s climate and weather now and into the future. Admiral Lautenbacher explains how NOAA agencies...
11.02.2007
Dr. William Patzert
Bill Patzert has a PhD in oceanography and is a research scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab at the California Institute of Technology.

What's Oceanography Vol. 1 about?

Download our free app to listen on your phone

Oceanography Vol. 1 episodes:

Coastal Resiliency in New York and New Jersey After Sandy

Alan Blumberg

Reinhard Flick

Dan Cayan

Rick Spinrad

Ken Buesseler

Emily Yam

Lincoln Paine

El Niño Webcast

Stephen and Anthony Palumbi

Dan Fornari

John Delaney

Larry Mayer

Dawn Wright

Nicholas Fisher

Leslie Harris - Hitchhiking Aliens: Unexpected Consequences of the Japan Tsunami

William Sargent

Dean Wendt

Charles Moore

Bruce Perry

Mark Jackson

Jeanine Jones

Richard Feely

James Lindholm

Peter Ward

Clark Snodgrass

Alexander “Sandy” MacDonald

William Sager

Bruce Parker

Richard Somerville

Curtis Ebbesmeyer

Henry Pollack

Wallace Broecker

Jim Sanchirico

Rikk Kvitek

Orrin H. Pilkey

Monty Graham

Bill Sargent

John Seager

Charlie Zender

Reuben Margolin

Michael Welland

Rick Aster

Gary Griggs

Daniel Botkin

Margaret Leinen

Rae and Wallis: Catch a Wave

Richard West

Conrad Lautenbacher: Global Climate Change

Dr. William Patzert