National Science Education Standard: E Science and Technology Grades 5 to 8

Penguins in the hot seat

The temperature in Antarctica is rising, and Hugh Ducklow is watching an entire ecosystem change before his eyes. What happens if the ice just keeps on melting?
[audio:https://coseenow.net/podcast//2009/06/og11.mp3]

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Of bonds and blooms

Sometimes the ocean can be a threat to human health. Barb and Gary Kirkpatrick, a wife and husband scientist team, describe what they’re doing to notify the Florida public about red tides and harmful algal blooms.
[audio:https://coseenow.net/podcast//2009/06/og10.mp3]

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The glide of a lifetime: Part II

Scott Glenn and Oscar Schofield have a passion for creating the next generation of ocean explorers. In this episode, they’ll share their deep commitment to education and why they feel it’s going to help ocean science in the long run.
[audio:https://coseenow.net/podcast//2009/05/og08.mp3]

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The glide of a lifetime: Part I

Oscar Schofield and Scott Glenn pilot underwater robots all over the world, sampling the ocean half a world away and saving lives in the process, but they never have to leave Rutgers University in New Jersey.
[audio:https://coseenow.net/podcast//2009/05/og07.mp3]

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Top models

Huijie Xue forecasts the underwater weather of the Gulf of Maine: its temperature, its salinity, and its currents. And a lot of people are tuning in. [audio:https://coseenow.net/podcast//2009/04/og06.mp3]

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Cyber fiber

John Orcutt and Frank Vernon are wiring the ocean to the Internet. And their goal is to let anyone anywhere tap into the vast data stores.
[audio:https://coseenow.net/podcast//2009/04/og05.mp3]

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Sonar in the sea

Kelly Benoit-Bird works on all kinds of ocean animals ranging from zooplankton to whales. And ocean observatories could make her science even more exciting.
[audio:https://coseenow.net/podcast//2009/03/og04.mp3]

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Coral concerns

Chris Martens is alarmed by the global disappearance of corals. To learn more, he lives at the bottom of the ocean on Conch Reef off Key Largo, Florida for up to 2 weeks at a time.
[audio:https://coseenow.net/podcast//2009/03/og03.mp3]

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Seeing the small

Heidi Sosik and Rob Olson describe how a shared frustration led them to develop a special underwater camera that takes pictures of tiny cells in the ocean. It has revolutionized how the ecology of the ocean is studied. [audio:https://coseenow.net/podcast//2009/02/og02.mp3]

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An internet portal into the ocean

Welcome to the first episode of Ocean Gazing, a podcast where we
look at, listen to and touch the ocean to unpack its secrets. On this week’s program, we’ll hear from University of Washington oceanography professor John Delaney. [audio:https://coseenow.net/podcast//2009/02/og01.mp3]

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