David and Vicki are joined by Wendy Benchley and Margo Pellegrino, both previous podcast guests and both fellow veterans of Blue Frontier, the ocean conservation group that works to give people who care about the Ocean the tools needed to protect their communities both human and wild.

The four discuss two decades of Blue Vision Summits, Benchley awards, ocean adventures, marches, celebrations and mobilizations, including to link Ocean and climate solutions. And of course many media projects like Rising Tide. Listen and Enjoy. It’s a birthday party.

Rising Tide, the Ocean Podcast is co-hosted by Blue Frontier's David Helvarg and the Inland Ocean Coalition's Vicki Nichols-Goldstein. This podcast aims to give you information, inspiration and motivation (along with a few laughs) to help understand our ocean world and make it better. The ocean is rising, and so are we!

Learn more at bluefront.org

For our 50th episode we talk with Dr. Craig Downs, the Hawaiian scientist who discovered and popularized the threat petrochemical-based sunscreens and other skin care products pose to coral reefs, fish and additional marine wildlife. Along with the role of Oreo cookies in his discovery, he talks about the ‘zombification' of reefs and fish exposed to chemicals in sunscreens, what’s being done to address the issue and how you can protect yourself from the sun without killing the Ocean.

Rising Tide, the Ocean Podcast is co-hosted by Blue Frontier's David Helvarg and the Inland Ocean Coalition's Vicki Nichols-Goldstein. This podcast aims to give you information, inspiration and motivation (along with a few laughs) to help understand our ocean world and make it better. The ocean is rising, and so are we!

Learn more at bluefront.org

We talk with NOAA’s Superintendent of the Greater Farallones and Cordell Banks Marine Sanctuaries off California, some of the most productive waters in the world. While she “loves the white sharks” for which the Farallones are famous, comparing one to “a school bus swimming by,” she doesn’t want anyone to forget the other fish, whales, deep sea corals, sea lions, seabirds, even an aircraft carrier that was scuttled there. Learn more about the challenges and wonders of one of California and the world’s ocean treasures from its most enthusiastic steward. 

Rising Tide, the Ocean Podcast is co-hosted by Blue Frontier's David Helvarg and the Inland Ocean Coalition's Vicki Nichols-Goldstein. This podcast aims to give you information, inspiration and motivation (along with a few laughs) to help understand our ocean world and make it better. The ocean is rising, and so are we!

Learn more at bluefront.org

Surfer scientist, writer and long-time Northern California marine lab director Brian Tissot talks with us about the state of California’s declining kelp forests, his years studying endangered tropical corals and more. More includes what he’s taught and learned from the upcoming generation of marine science students in his Trinidad CA. lab, his science-based science fiction, and what it’s like surfing the cold waters of the North Pacific after years in Hawaii’s breakers.

Rising Tide, the Ocean Podcast is co-hosted by Blue Frontier's David Helvarg and the Inland Ocean Coalition's Vicki Nichols-Goldstein. This podcast aims to give you information, inspiration and motivation (along with a few laughs) to help understand our ocean world and make it better. The ocean is rising, and so are we!

Learn more at bluefront.org

We welcome back Ian Urbina who was on Rising Tide's first episode. The former NY Times reporter’s Outlaw Ocean series became a bestselling book and now The Outlaw Ocean Project. We discuss his latest reporting for the New Yorker magazine on how thousands of climate refugees from Africa seeking to cross the Mediterranean are being seized by Libyan Militias who also kidnapped and beat Ian while he was working on this story. We’ll also talk about lack of law enforcement at sea, the link between music and journalism and more. 

Rising Tide, the Ocean Podcast is co-hosted by Blue Frontier's David Helvarg and the Inland Ocean Coalition's Vicki Nichols-Goldstein. This podcast aims to give you information, inspiration and motivation (along with a few laughs) to help understand our ocean world and make it better. The ocean is rising, and so are we!

Learn more at bluefront.org

Dive in with Chris Dixon & Jeremy Spencer the co-authors and editors of “The Ocean - the Ultimate Handbook of Nautical Knowledge,” that’s also been referred to as ‘Poseidon’s Bible’. A perfect holiday gift with illustrated sections on boating, surfing, diving, how to survive a jellyfish sting, nautical lore and more. We’ll even quiz Chris and Jeremy on what they reported and discuss everything you need to know for a life of oceanic adventure. 

Rising Tide, the Ocean Podcast is co-hosted by Blue Frontier's David Helvarg and the Inland Ocean Coalition's Vicki Nichols-Goldstein. This podcast aims to give you information, inspiration and motivation (along with a few laughs) to help understand our ocean world and make it better. The ocean is rising, and so are we!

Learn more at bluefront.org

Join us in PART TWO of our Rising Tide conversation with “Her Deepness” National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence Dr. Sylvia Earl and her daughter and President of the Deep Ocean Exploration and Research (DOER) marine technology company, Liz Taylor. In this second part we will hear about the climate, the carbon cycle and how we will turn the tide in ocean policy and conservation. 

Rising Tide, the Ocean Podcast is co-hosted by Blue Frontier's David Helvarg and the Inland Ocean Coalition's Vicki Nichols-Goldstein. This podcast aims to give you information, inspiration and motivation (along with a few laughs) to help understand our ocean world and make it better. The ocean is rising, and so are we!

Learn more at bluefront.org

Rising Tide is a project of Blue Frontier founded by host David Helvarg. Co-host Vicki Nichols-Goldstein is founder of the Inland Ocean Coalition. In this special 20-minute episode we talk with Michael Stocker, Daniela Huson, Wallace J. Nichols and Mary Crowley, leaders of three other groups who’ve joined with us in Ten4Ocean, the unique funding collaboration sea starring ten highly effective grassroots blue groups.  If you are not attending the Climate Summit in Glasgow learn about a way you can still make a difference and a splash for our blue planet by supporting Ten4Ocean.org  

Join us in part one of our two part Rising Tide conversation with “Her Deepness” National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence Dr. Sylvia Earl and her daughter and President of the Deep Ocean Exploration and Research (DOER) marine technology company, Liz Taylor. In this initial talk they’ll discuss how their relationship evolved from parental to professional partnering in ocean exploration, some of the new challenges they see including deep-sea mining and how the generations of her family give Sylvia hope for the future.  

Rising Tide, the Ocean Podcast is co-hosted by Blue Frontier's David Helvarg and the Inland Ocean Coalition's Vicki Nichols-Goldstein. This podcast aims to give you information, inspiration and motivation (along with a few laughs) to help understand our ocean world and make it better. The ocean is rising, and so are we!

Learn more at bluefront.org