Oceanography (Audio)
Guest speakers, researchers and University of California faculty explore our understanding of research in marine science.
- Update frequency
- every 40 days
- Average duration
- 45 minutes
- Episodes
- 37
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
Why Are Scientists Dyeing the Ocean Pink?
Why is the ocean — and this team of researchers — looking pretty in pink? For science! Scientists at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography have launched the PiNC (Plumes in Nearshore Con…
00:02:39 |
Fri 10 Mar 2023
Big Data: The Path Toward Wildfire Resilience
Increasingly frequent and intense wildfires in California and the western US are impacting communities across the state. Even areas not prone to fires suffer from degraded air and water quality – dir…
00:50:41 |
Mon 30 Jan 2023
Deep Sea Collections: Public Engagement and Citizen Scientists with Greg Rouse - Exploring Ethics
Ever wonder what lives in the deepest parts of the ocean? Curious how many species of fish swim under the waves? Collections like those at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO) are a way for …
00:54:30 |
Wed 09 Nov 2022
Coral Reefs and the Power of Adaptation to Climate Change
Scripps Institution of Oceanography marine biologist Stuart Sandin illuminates his work leading the 100 Island Challenge, a project that uses high tech ecological surveys to capture snapshots of cora…
00:57:47 |
Sat 05 Nov 2022
Local Communities Plan for Climate Resilience
Coastal regions are susceptible to a host of threats to the natural environment and our quality of life as a result of climate change. Our beaches and coastal bluffs are being eroded by ocean storms …
00:57:54 |
Wed 28 Sep 2022
Ocean Exploration to Inform Climate Solutions and Biodiversity Conservation
The ocean is a critical component of climate solutions. Not only does the ocean have the potential to provide food security, but it can provide critical minerals for the energy transition, species wi…
00:37:32 |
Sun 24 Jul 2022
The Journey of the Little Blue Penguins
Join Birch Aquarium’s Senior Director of Animal Care, Science and Conservation, Jenn Moffatt, for a first-hand account of how their new exhibit went from concept to reality. Get an inside look at the…
00:58:39 |
Mon 04 Jul 2022
Triton Talks: Solving Our Plastic Problem With Algae
Plastic is everywhere. There are 17 trillion tons of the stuff on the planet. While plastic is convenient and cheap, it can take hundreds of years to decompose. Michael Burkart, Ph.D., professor of …
00:22:42 |
Mon 06 Jun 2022
Sea Urchins and Sea Slugs
Amazing new technologies in developmental biology and genetics research are allowing scientists to begin to answer long standing questions such as – how does a single fertilized egg cell transform in…
00:51:24 |
Fri 03 Jun 2022
The Mysterious Pacific Footballfish
The Pacific footballfish is a large but rarely encountered deep-sea anglerfish known from only 31 specimens recovered worldwide. Strangely, over the course of last year (2021), three footballfish wer…
00:56:59 |
Fri 29 Apr 2022
CARTA: Human Origins and Humanity’s Future: Past Present and Future of the Anthropocene on The Oceans and the Anthropocene with Nancy Knowlton
The ocean is enormous, indeed so large that for centuries we assumed that there was nothing we could do to substantially harm it. Unfortunately, we now know that this is not true. We are having succe…
00:15:29 |
Mon 28 Mar 2022
Research for Resilience on a Changing Planet - The California Cooperative Oceanic Fisheries Investigations
The ocean provides a bounty of essential life-supporting services. Yet, a changing climate and increasing human uses are altering marine ecosystems and their ability to continue to provide this wealt…
00:48:00 |
Wed 28 Jul 2021
Research for Resilience on a Changing Planet - Southern California Coastal Ocean Observing System
The Southern California Coastal Ocean Observing System (SCCOOS) – part of the national U.S. Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS) – works to collect, integrate and deliver coastal and ocean observ…
00:57:47 |
Sun 27 Jun 2021
Biological Impacts of Oxygen Loss in the Ocean: The Blinding Truth
Join Scripps postdoctoral scholar Lillian McCormick for an in depth look at how and why oxygen is changing in the ocean and how her research is providing insight into the impacts of low oxygen on vis…
00:47:02 |
Sun 20 Dec 2020
Our Warming Ocean
When we think about climate change, we often focus on the effects that we can directly observe such as extreme weather events and catastrophic wildfires. Yet most of our planet is covered by ocean wh…
00:26:49 |
Mon 24 Aug 2020
Oceans Out of Breath: Oxygen Minimum Zones in a Warming Climate
Join Scripps climate scientist Yassir Eddebbar for an exploration of the oceans interior and a fascinating phenomenon oxygen minimum zones (OMZs). With a focus on Yassirs work in the tropical Pacifi…
00:46:15 |
Tue 28 Jul 2020
The Red Tide of 2020
Glowing blue waves and unusual ocean conditions wowed the world during Southern California's recent history-making red tide event. Join Scripps Institution of Oceanography bioluminescence expert Mic…
00:57:12 |
Mon 29 Jun 2020
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