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J.D. Talasek
Integrating Art and Science: Shifting Perspectives to Inspire Change
JD Talasek recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on January 18, 2018. Talasek is the director of Cultural Programs of the National Academy of Sciences.
Dr. Thomas White
An Ethicist’s View of Climate Change
Dr. Thomas White recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on January 16, 2018. Dr. White is the Conrad N. Hilton Chair of Business Ethics and the director of the Center for Ethics and Business at Loyola Marymount University.
Kim Steinhardt and Gary Griggs
The Edge: The Pressured Past and Precarious Future of California’s Coast
Kim Steinhardt and Gary Griggs recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on November 30, 2017. Griggs is a Distinguished Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and Steinhardt is a former state Administrative Law Judge and litigator, as well as a long-time conservationist and public interest advocate.
Judith Kildow
The New Blue Economy: A Revolution in our Relationship with the Oceans
Judith Kildow recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on November 14, 2017. She is founder and director of the National Ocean Economics Program (NOEP) at the Center for the Blue Economy at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey, California.
Nancy Knowlton
From Doom & Gloom to #OceanOptimism: Success Stories in Marine Conservation
Nancy Knowlton recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on November 9, 2017. Knowlton is the Sant Chair for Marine Science at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History and co-host of the Earth Optimism Summit in Washington, D.C.
Chris Lowe
Beach Babies: White Shark Nurseries of the Northeast Pacific
Chris Lowe recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on November 2, 2017. Lowe is a professor of marine biology and director of the Shark Lab at California State University, Long Beach.
Murray Fisher
Billion Oyster Project
Murray Fisher recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on October 19, 2017. Fisher is the executive director of the New York Harbor Foundation and founder of the New York Harbor School.
Rebecca Tarvin
Why Don’t Frogs Poison Themselves?
Rebecca Tarvin recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on October 12, 2017. Tarvin is a Ph.D. student in the Evolution, Ecology, and Behavior program at the University of Texas at Austin. She has studied frogs in Ecuador and Colombia and studies in the evolution of toxicity in poison frogs.
Mark Martinez
The Water-Energy Nexus: Challenges and Opportunities for California
Mark Martinez recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on April 27, 2017. Martinez is a senior portfolio manager for Southern California Edison and Emerging Markets and Technology program lead.
Ruth Gates
The Wonderful World of Corals: Harnessing Basic Science to Address an Ecological Crisis
Ruth Gates recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on September 19, 2017. Dr. Gates is the director of and a researcher at the Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology, University of Hawaii at Manoa.
Michael Prather
Reporting from the Front Line: Where Science Meets Government
Michael Prather recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on September 7, 2017. Prather is a University of California, Irvine, distinguished professor of Earth system science.
Kerry Kriger
SAVE THE FROGS! Translating Science Into Action
Kerry Kriger recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on August 29, 2017. Dr. Kriger is the founder and executive director of SAVE THE FROGS!
Alexandra Lawlor
Save the White Abalone: Aquarium of the Pacific’s Conservation Efforts
Alexandra Lawlor recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on August 23, 2017. Lawlor has been on staff at the Aquarium since 2015 and is responsible for exhibits in the Southern California/Baja Gallery.
Dr. Gregory Stone
Soul of the Sea in the Age of the Algorithm
Dr. Gregory Stone recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on August 3, 2017. Dr. Stone was a co-founder of the Ocean Health Index and serves on the boards of Pacific Rising and Aquaspark. He also was the science advisor to the nation of Kiribati for the United Nations Paris climate agreement.
Agustín Fuentes
The Creative Spark: Imagination and Collaboration in Human Evolution
Agustín Fuentes recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on July 26, 2017. Fuentes is a professor and chair of anthropology at the University of Notre Dame. He is also a blogger for Psychology Today and The Huffington Post.