Discipline: Ecology
A rockfish reserve
An unusual partnership is brewing in the waters off Southern Oregon, and it might just make all the difference for a group of magnificent little fish.
[audio:https://coseenow.net/podcast//2011/11/OG52final.mp3]
Only one ocean
Steve Van Zandt goes by Solar Steve when he’s writing songs and performing with the Banana Slug String Band. The group’s based in Santa Cruz, California, and they make music about science and conservation.
[audio:https://coseenow.net/podcast//2011/07/og51.mp3]
Slick of oil
The BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill lasted three months. In July 2010, the wellhead was capped, and the oil finally stopped gushing into the Gulf of Mexico. But the repercussions and the science? They’re far from over.
[audio:https://coseenow.net/podcast//2010/12/og49.mp3]
Clams in a jam
Surf clamming has always been a hard business. But recently it’s gotten even harder, and the fishermen are bearing the brunt of the impact. All you have to do is talk to them to find out.
[audio:https://coseenow.net/podcast//2010/11/og48.mp3]
Dotted shrimp and sugary fish
In the heart of Savannah, an experiment is underway…to see whether the same science topics can be made engaging for students of all ages, from elementary to graduate school. And that experiment…it’s working.
[audio:https://coseenow.net/podcast//2010/11/og47.mp3]
An imminent thaw
In the Bering Sea, ice is everything. It controls the life, the people living there, and the climate. So what’s happening now that the thickness and the quality of that ice is deteriorating?
[audio:https://coseenow.net/podcast//2010/11/og46.mp3]
ROVers over and under
Rovers and remotely operated vehicles are hulking beasts on land. But in the ocean, they glide gracefully through the water and along the seafloor, and they’re crucial in surveying the watery deep.
[audio:https://coseenow.net/podcast//2010/10/og44.mp3]
A field of green
The thinnest blanket of life fans out just beneath the ocean’s surface. For Margaret McManus, that blanket means an insatiable curiosity and some very late nights at sea.
[audio:https://coseenow.net/podcast//2010/06/og37.mp3]
Music from the bottom of the food chain
Guess what kind of organism this is: There are billions of them in every bucket of the salty sea, some of them glow, and some are responsible for killing more people every year than sharks. Give up? Have a listen.
[audio:https://coseenow.net/podcast//2010/05/og36.mp3]
Keeping watch on a changing ocean
When the tiniest of particles settle onto the deepest of ocean bottoms, they can have the biggest of influences. Fisheries collapse. Tsunamis. Ecosystem shifts. But how do you look at the ocean’s entire vertical swath at once?
[audio:https://coseenow.net/podcast//2009/12/og23.mp3]
