Aquarium Audio
Hear Our Latest Aquacasts
Ken Kurtis
Journey to the Island of Yap: Stone Money, Massive Manta Rays, and More
Ken Kurtis recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on August 20, 2019. Kurtis has been an Aquarium volunteer since 1998. He is a dive team leader at the Aquarium and a National Association of Underwater Instructors SCUBA instructor.
Mike Bartick
Exotic Animals of the Night Sea
Mike Bartick recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on August 14, 2019. Bartick is a field guide who conducts photo safaris, lectures, and seminars.
Paul Erickson
Don’t Mess With Me: The Strange Lives of Venomous Sea Creatures
Paul Erickson recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on June 11, 2019. Erickson is a freelance writer and exhibit developer and works as an educator and aquarist on the Endeavour research vessel based in Salem, Massachusetts.
Jessica Whited
Studying Salamanders to Decipher Nature’s Instruction Manual for Regenerating Limbs
Jessica Whited recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on February 19, 2019. Whited is an assistant professor of stem cell and regenerative biology at Harvard University.
Anne Cohen
Where the Living Reefs Are: A Quest to Find the World’s Most Resilient Corals
Anne Cohen recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on October 11, 2018. Cohen is an associate scientist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.
Gregory Barord
Conservation in the Deep Sea: The Perilous Story of the Chambered Nautilus
Gregory Barord recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on August 14, 2018. Barord is a conservation biologist for Save the Nautilus and the marine biology instructor for Des Moines Public Schools’ Central Campus.
Mike Bartick
Blackwater Diving: Exploring the Night Sea
Mike Bartick recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on July 31, 2018. Bartick is an avid diver and photographer whose work concentrates on the macro fauna of the Verde Island Pass located near Anilao, Philippines.
Tyler Phelps
Deep Beneath the Sea: Exploring the Twilight Zone
Tyler Phelps recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on July 10, 2018. Phelps is a graduate student with the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco pursuing mesophotic fish ecology research as part of their global Hope for Reefs Initiative.
Danna Staaf
Cephalopods are the New Dinosaurs: A Squid’s-Eye View of the History of Life
Danna Staaf recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on May 15, 2018. She is a science writer and educator and the author of Squid Empire: The Rise and Fall of the Cephalopods.
Daniel Cartamil
Baja’s Wild Side: Shark Research and Conservation Photography in Baja California
Daniel Cartamil recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on May 9, 2018. He is a marine biologist and shark expert at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, California.
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.
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.
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.
Daniel Goldman
The Physics of Mudskippers and Other Land Locomotors
Daniel Goldman recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on May 17, 2017. Goldman is a professor of physics at the Georgia Institute of Technology.