Biocultural Coastal Conservation | Ancestral Tides
Ocean conservation can begin with ancestral relationships. Conservation scientist Juan Carlos Cruz explains how the Ancestral Tides initiative supports biocultural conservation with Indigenous and loc...
24 Mar 45min
Ocean Trenches Explained
Every ocean trench is a world shaped by geology. Professor Alan Jamieson guides a journey into the hadal zone, beginning around 6,000 meters below the surface. Learn how tectonic plates create ocean t...
17 Mar 44min
What is the Deep Sea Even Like?
The deep sea is not one dark, featureless place. Deep-sea researcher Dr. Thom Linley maps the ocean below sunlight as a connected world of depth zones with changing pressure, temperature, food, and li...
10 Mar 56min
What is Ocean Deoxygenation?
The ocean is losing oxygen, with effects across food webs. Dr. Sven Pallacks explains ocean deoxygenation, how oxygen enters and moves through seawater, and why oxygen minimum zones develop. The episo...
3 Mar 38min
Ocean Story Hour: Making Marine Biodiversity Visible
Ocean science only matters if people can connect with it. Science communicator Anabelle Chaumun explains why marine biodiversity is difficult to make visible, why misinformation can outpace evidence, ...
24 Feb 38min
Science Toward Solutions: 20 Years of Ocean Microplastics
Microplastics research has reshaped the questions. Dr. Winnie Courtene-Jones reviews what ocean microplastics science now shows about sources, movement, accumulation, and effects on marine food webs. ...
17 Feb 47min
Marine Heat Waves and Japanese Meteorology
A marine heat wave can make the land even hotter. Japan Meteorological Agency scientist Hirotaka Sato explains how the 2023 marine heat wave near northern Japan amplified record-breaking summer temper...
10 Feb 38min
Before the Oil Spill: Baseline Ocean Data and Marine Microbes
Oil-spill science starts long before a disaster. Marine microbial oceanographer Dr. Alice Ortmann explains why baseline ocean data are essential for detecting change around offshore oil and gas activi...
3 Feb 35min
