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Seaweed People

A podcast about seaweed and people. It's for you if you're interested in what seaweed is, how it works in ecosystems, growing it for food or climate solutions, regenerating coastlines and the intersection of science, art and culture.


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Conversation Science Natural Sciences Nature Earth Sciences
Update frequency
every 17 days
Average duration
31 minutes
Episodes
20
Years Active
2024 - 2025
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Kelp restoration & seaweed saunas with Love Rimurimu (Zoe Studd)

Kelp restoration & seaweed saunas with Love Rimurimu (Zoe Studd)

You are going to love this conversation if you dream of spending a week greeting the sun with seaweed songs, having seaweed baths after saunas, if you’re into seaweed tattoos, if you’re a student or …

00:34:34  |   Sun 10 Aug 2025
Saving the Sequoias of the Sea with Blue Frontier

Saving the Sequoias of the Sea with Blue Frontier

This episode is for you if you’re wondering what the heck is going on across the sea for our friends in the US, if you’re into citizen science and communities coming together to protect kelp, and if …

00:36:26  |   Wed 11 Jun 2025
Deep sea mining with the Coral Trout (Kirsty Kross)

Deep sea mining with the Coral Trout (Kirsty Kross)

This one’s for you if you’re an artist, or a scientist or conservationist wanting to communicate in creative ways, and if you love the deep sea, the Great Barrier Reef and Kate Bush 🪸💎


Kirsty Kross is…

00:37:09  |   Thu 08 May 2025
Solar-powered seaweed-sucking seaslugs with Nicole Mertens

Solar-powered seaweed-sucking seaslugs with Nicole Mertens

This one’s for you if you’re into nudibranchs, sea grapes, solar power, butterflies, citizen science and tongues with teeth(!?) 🌱🐛


Nicole Mertens is a marine ecologist with a passion for sacoglossans,…

00:33:06  |   Fri 04 Apr 2025
Seaweed farmers v. Big Oil & soil with Freya Mulvey

Seaweed farmers v. Big Oil & soil with Freya Mulvey

This one’s for you if you’re interested in how a class action case works, if you wanna hear about seaweed farmers taking on big oil companies or if you’re also a soil person  🌱🪱


Freya Mulvey is a seni…

00:35:07  |   Wed 05 Mar 2025
Biochar & the blue economy with Southern Ocean Carbon

Biochar & the blue economy with Southern Ocean Carbon

This one’s for you if you’re interested in biochar, giant kelp, marine engineering or thinking about seaweed as a solution to a whole lotta problems 🛠️🐟


Adam Brancher is a Principle Marine Surveyor an…

00:38:55  |   Fri 06 Sep 2024
Reviving Country & communities with the Gamay Rangers

Reviving Country & communities with the Gamay Rangers

You’ll love this ep, I just know it 🐋🦅 It’s for you if you like baby seahorses and migrating whales, if you live in a coastal city, if you've heard about wildlife coming back into harbours during loc…

00:36:53  |   Wed 21 Aug 2024
Kelp farming & wakame hunting with Southern Seagreens

Kelp farming & wakame hunting with Southern Seagreens

This one’s for you if you’re into craft beer, you like dreaming up side hustles with your mates, you’re a chef wanting to experiment with kelpy umami or if you’re an aspiring seaweed farmer 👩🏽‍🍳🍻


Cam …

00:32:44  |   Mon 05 Aug 2024
Shipwrecks, sea otters & kelp restoration with Aaron Eger (Kelp Forest Alliance)

Shipwrecks, sea otters & kelp restoration with Aaron Eger (Kelp Forest Alliance)

This is maybe as seaweed peopley as it gets. It’s for you if you want an overview of kelp forests, if you’re into rewilding and sea otters, if you have any kind of skill and want to put it toward con…

00:35:32  |   Tue 23 Jul 2024
Kelp secrets & playful activism with Boho Interactive

Kelp secrets & playful activism with Boho Interactive

You’ll enjoy this episode if you like games, if you’re a scientist looking for creative ways to communicate your research, if you run a music festival, a council or small town and want to know how to…

00:32:21  |   Mon 08 Jul 2024
Seaweed babies & kelp farms with Jo Lane

Seaweed babies & kelp farms with Jo Lane

This one’s for aspiring seaweed farmers, kelp ladies and anyone who loves a good seaweed yarn. We’re talking seaweed babies, wild harvesting, kelp farming and Ecklonia radiata - the backbone of the G…

00:28:23  |   Mon 24 Jun 2024
Oysters, seawalls & habitat restoration with Prof Melanie Bishop

Oysters, seawalls & habitat restoration with Prof Melanie Bishop

Ooh yes, today we are hearing all about oysters! Also seascape restoration, pseudo-mangroves, living seawalls and a good use for potato chip waste. This one’s for you if you’ve heard that 85% of glo…

00:36:08  |   Mon 10 Jun 2024
Reviving Tassie's giant kelp with Mick Baron

Reviving Tassie's giant kelp with Mick Baron

Macrocystis! This episode is for you if you’ve always dreamt of diving through the iconic giant kelp forests in Tasmania, and if you’ve heard that they’ve completely disappeared, but also and if you …

00:29:03  |   Mon 27 May 2024
Connecting to Sea Country with Rhiannon Mitchell (Saltwater Sistas)

Connecting to Sea Country with Rhiannon Mitchell (Saltwater Sistas)

This episode is for you if you like rivers and oceans, if you want to connect deeper to Sea Country, if you live in Australia or another country where the dominant narrative of the ocean stems from a…

00:26:08  |   Tue 14 May 2024
Nutrition, Nitrogen & circular systems with Dr Pia Winberg

Nutrition, Nitrogen & circular systems with Dr Pia Winberg

This episode’s for you if you’re into eating seaweed, sustainable food systems, Nitrogen cycles, how seaweed can heal burns, or if you’ve ever daydreamed about being a humble seaweed farmer 🧑‍🌾🍝


Dr Pi…

00:32:45  |   Mon 29 Apr 2024
Art, activism & cuttlefish mating with Lichen Kelp

Art, activism & cuttlefish mating with Lichen Kelp

You’ll like this episode if you’re interested in artists working with seaweed or teaming up with scientists, what cuttlefish look like when they mate, kayaks that play music, or if you’ve ever wonder…

00:30:47  |   Mon 15 Apr 2024
The Great Southern Reef with Dr Scott Bennett

The Great Southern Reef with Dr Scott Bennett

If you’re into biodiversity hotspots, temperate reef ecosystems, protecting your local beach, collective action, or if you’re working in the media or education sector then this episode is for you 📣🦑


D…

00:28:16  |   Tue 02 Apr 2024
Reforesting seagrass & seaweed with Professor Adriana Verges

Reforesting seagrass & seaweed with Professor Adriana Verges

This one’s for you if you want to know the difference between seagrass and seaweed, how crayweed reproduces, what reforestation looks like, or if you’re dreaming of becoming a marine scientist and ju…

00:32:54  |   Mon 18 Mar 2024
Forensic carbon accounting with Dr Catriona Hurd

Forensic carbon accounting with Dr Catriona Hurd

This one’s for you if you want to know what seaweed is and what it does in the ecosystem, whether sinking it in the deep ocean is a legit climate change solution and what a kelp trumpet sounds like. 


00:30:04  |   Mon 04 Mar 2024
What is this?

What is this?

What is this!? This is a podcast about seaweed and people. It's for you if you're interested in what seaweed is, how it works in ecosystems, whether it's a legit carbon sequestration solution, growin…
00:01:26  |   Sun 18 Feb 2024
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