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Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Explorations
UC San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography Explorations informs and educates the public, our alumni, the scientific community, and Scripps' friends and supporters about ongoing research and events.
Please go to their webpage http://explorations.ucsd.edu/Multimedia/Podcasts/
and subscribe to the podcast via their RSS feed:
http://scrippsnews.ucsd.edu/Podcast/podcast.xml
Here are descriptions from their website of a few of their Audio and Video programs:
====>Click to hear "Saving Venice" (audio)
The historic city calls upon Scripps and a multifaceted team of experts
to help decipher the mysteries lying beneath its waters.
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====>Click to view "Saving Venice" (video)
The historic city calls upon Scripps and a multifaceted team of experts
to help decipher the mysteries lying beneath its waters.
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====>Click to hear "History's Warning" (audio)
E-Magazine Feb. 2007 - An ancient global warming episode drastically
changed the planet. Life on Earth needed 200,000 years to recover.
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====>Click to view "History's Warning" (video)
E-Magazine Feb. 2007 - An ancient global warming episode drastically
changed the planet. Life on Earth needed 200,000 years to recover.
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====>Click to view "Assessing Coral Populations" (video)
From Explorations Magazine 2004, Scientists give a closer look at assessing coral populations
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====>Click to view "Investigating Coral Disease" (video)
From Explorations Magazine 2004, Scientists investigate coral disease.
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====>Click to view "Investigating Marine Pollution" (video)
From Explorations Magazine 2002, Scientists investigate marine pollution.
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====>Click to view "Raising Moonjellies" (video)
The process at Birch Aquarium at Scripps of Raising Moonjellies
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====>Click to view "Life in the Sea" (video)
A rare look at some of the most fascinating images of Life in the Sea
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====>Click to view "Life in the Sea" (audio)
A rare look at some of the most fascinating images of Life in the Sea
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====>Click to view "Living among Penguins" (video)
A fascinating adventure of Life with the Penguins
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====>Click to view "Living among Penguins" (audio)
A fascinating adventure of Life with the Penguins
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Ocean Currents: Cordell Bank National Marine Sanctuary
The Cordell Bank National Marine Sanctuary was established in 1989 to
protect and preserve the extraordinary ecosystem, including marine
birds, mammals, and other natural resources of Cordell Bank and its
surrounding waters.
Please go to their webpage http://cordellbank.noaa.gov/
and subscribe to the podcast via their RSS feed:
http://cordellbank.noaa.gov/casts/rss.xml
Here are descriptions from their website of a few of their Audio programs:
====>Click to hear "Elephant Seals at Point Reyes"
Guest: Dr. Sarah Allen from Point Reyes National Seashore talks about
the elephant seal breeding season in full action at Point Reyes National
Seashore. Hear about their survival from being nearly extinct to their
booming growth rates and their unique adaptations to living in the
marine environment.
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====>Click to hear "Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary"
Put on your SCUBA gear, we're going diving, into the Flower Garden Banks
National Marine Sanctuary in the Gulf of Mexico, off the coast of Texas.
2007 marks the 15th anniversary of the northernmost coral reefs in the
US. Perched atop salt domes 100 miles offshore of Texas, the Flower
Gardens maintain an amazing array of healthy coral reefs, visited by sea
turtles, whale sharks, and manta rays. Towards the end of the show,
we'll be talking with the founder of the San Francisco Ocean Film
Festival for an overview of the upcoming ocean film event.
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====>Click to hear "Humboldt Squid"
Guests: Dr. William Gilly from Hopkins Marine Station, Stanford, CA and
Ken Baltz from NOAA Fisheries talk about the recent movement of Humboldt
squid up the coast of California, into Oregon, Washington, and even
Alaska.
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====>Click to hear "Management Plan Review"
Guests: Dan Howard and Maria Brown, Sanctuary Superintendents from
Cordell Bank and Gulf of the Farallones National Marine Sanctuaries in
California, discuss the draft Joint Management Plan while its open for
public comment in 2006.
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====>Click to hear "Plastics Are Forever"
Guest: Charles Moore of the Algalita Marine Research Foundation talked
about the alarming rate of plastics in the ocean. Plastic in the ocean
may be one of the most alarming of today's environmental stories.
Plastic, like diamonds, are forever! Because plastics do NOT biodegrade,
no naturally occurring organisms can break these polymers down.
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====>Click to hear "Northwestern Hawaiian Islands"
Aloha! Guest Andy Collins from the newly designated Northwestern
Hawaiian Islands Marine National Monument talks about some of the
healthiest and most extensive coral reef habitats in the world, and the
small atolls and islets that they surround. Claire Johnson from NOAA's
National Marine Sanctuary program also called in to highlight the recent
research cruise she returned from.
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====>Click to hear "Minke Whales"
Guest: John Stern, co-founder of the Northeast Pacific Minke Whale
Project, talked about Minke whales in the Pacific. He discusses Minke
whale research, and the recent International Whaling Commission's annual
meeting outcomes.
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====>Click to hear "Tracking Pelagics"
Guest: Dr. David Hyrenbach, with Duke University, visiting scholar at
University of Washington, Parrish Lab, School of Aquatic and Fishery
Sciences talks about how to research far ranging predators such as
seabirds and current tagging technologies. How do we learn about animals
we can't see every day?
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