San Diego is home to one of the biggest blue technology clusters in the country. In 2016, The Port of San Diego's Blue Economy Incubator was established to assist in the creation, early development, and initial scaling of new Blue Economy business ventures in the region. This week, on Ripple Effect, we speak with Surge Albino and Sam Johnson of ecoSPEARS, a start-up company comprised of a fast-growing team of innovators, engineers, and scientists developing cleanup solutions for contaminated sediment.

San Diego is home to one of the biggest blue technology clusters in the country. In 2016, The Port of San Diego's Blue Economy Incubator was established to assist in the creation, early development, and initial scaling of new Blue Economy business ventures in the region. This week, on Ripple Effect, I spoke with Torre Polizzi and Leslie Booher, co-founders of Sunken Seaweed, an aquaculture start-up company committed to pioneering sustainable, seaweed aquaculture in and around San Diego Bay.

San Diego is home to one of the biggest blue technology clusters in the country. In 2016, The Port of San Diego's Blue Economy Incubator was established to assist in the creation, early development, and initial scaling of new Blue Economy business ventures in the region. On Ripple Effect, we meet the people behind these projects and learn how innovators are developing novel environmental solutions, right here in San Diego.

Climate change is stressful, and it's real. In the Braving High Seas podcast, we invite young people with questions about climate change to talk with scientists. This week, Adam Aron, Professor of Psychology at UC San Diego, speaks with high school students Alayah & Nina, who helped to organize the climate walkout at San Diego High School, about actions we can take against the climate crisis.

Climate change is stressful, and it's real. In the Braving High Seas podcast, we invite young people with questions about climate change to talk with scientists. This week, two seventh-graders, Elle and Arrow, speak with Daniela Faggiani Dias, a graduate student of Physical Oceanography and Climate science and Scripps Institution of Oceanography.

Climate change is stressful, and it's real. In the Braving High Seas podcast, we invite young people with questions about climate change to talk with scientists. How is climate change going to affect the food we eat? This week, two fifth-graders talk with Sam Clements, a staff scientist at Scripps Institute of Oceanography studying coral reef ecology in the tropics as well as local effects of global warming and ocean acidification in the nearshore environment.

Climate change is stressful, and it's real. In the Braving High Seas podcast, we invite young people with questions about climate change to talk with scientists. How do we know climate change is really happening? Can art help science tell the story of climate change? Guest interviewer Santiago Lopez, a high school senior, speaks with Sasha Gershunov, a research meteorologist and statistician at Scripps, who curated the art & science collaboration, Weather on Steriods.

Climate change is stressful, and it's real. In the Braving High Seas podcast, we invite young people with questions about climate change to talk with scientists and explore the roles we can all take to fight climate change. "What can plankton tell us about Climate change?" Cole Pennington, a 5th grader, asks Jules Jaffe, a research oceanographer at Scripps Institution of Oceanography. The answers to these and other questions are embedded in this fascinating intergenerational conversation!

Jessica Ling Findley is a multi-media artist, teacher, and designer. In this episode, host Adam Greenfield talks with Jessica about her work, including the Ocean Optimism installation at Seaport Village in February 2020. Jessica also introduces the "Braving the High Seas" Podcast series, where scientists and kids talk about climate change.

Jessica Findley: ww.jessicalingfindley.com

For more information visit www.seaportvillage.com/oceanoptimism

Bread & Salt is an experimental center for the arts with strong community ties. Owner James Brown, Head Curator Thomas DeMello, and Artist in Residence Griselda Rosas talk about the formation of Bread & Salt, as well as its expanding Artist in Residency program.

Bread and Salt: breadandsaltsandiego.com

Griselda Rosas: griseldarosas.com

Thee Sacred Souls: instagram.com/theesacredsouls/

For more information visit www.seaportvillage.com/podcast