Marine Biology Vol. 1
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
Bruce Robison
16 Sep 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Bruce Robison recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on August 13, 2013. Robison is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Scienc...
Edith Widder
27 Aug 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Edith Widder recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on August 27, 2013. Widder is a deep-sea explorer, oceanographer, marine biologist, and co-founder...
Jim Hellemn
05 Aug 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Jim Hellemn recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on April 23, 2013. His photography has appeared in National Geographic magazine and at the American...
Jesus Reyes
02 Aug 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Aquacast recorded on July 25, 2013. Jesus Reyes discusses the pressures on California’s coastal aquatic environments derived from highly developed u...
Nicholas Fisher
02 Aug 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Aquacast recorded on June 19, 2013. Nicholas Fisher discusses the release of long-lived radionuclides from the Fukushima nuclear power plant in Japan ...
Asila Ghoul
02 Aug 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Aquacast recorded on June 25, 2013. Asila Ghoul discussed a recent study of the sensory systems of sea otters and how these amphibious animals are ada...
Richard Ellis - Gladiator of the Sea
02 Aug 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Aquacast recorded on June 13, 2013. Richard Ellis discussed the broadbill swordfish, whose scientific name Xiphias gladius means “gladiator.”
Chris Lowe - The Recovery of Apex Marine Predator Populations
02 Aug 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Aquacast recorded on May 14, 2013. Rapid coastal development, water and air pollution, overfishing, bycatch, and habitat loss have all contributed to ...
Leslie Harris - Hitchhiking Aliens: Unexpected Consequences of the Japan Tsunami
02 Aug 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Aquacast recorded at the Aquarium on May 7, 2013. After the earthquake and resulting tsunami that struck Japan in 2010, ocean currents and wind brough...
Seth Newsome
06 Feb 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Differences in diet among individuals of the same species is increasingly recognized as an important component of diversity in food webs.
P. Dee Boersma, Ph.D.
31 Jan 2013
Contributed by Lukas
For twenty-eight years P. Dee Boersma, Ph.D., has studied the largest Magellanic Penguin colony in the world at Punta Tombo, Argentina.
Maddalena Bearzi
29 Jan 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Maddalena Bearzi takes viewers inside the world of a marine mammal field scientist. She offers a firsthand understanding of cetacean behavior, as ...
J.J. L’Heureux
01 Aug 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Painter, photographer, and naturalist J.J. L'Heureux shared her photographs and stories from her eleven years of annual expeditions to Antarctica duri...
Ellen Prager
27 Jul 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Ellen Prager presented stories and images about the organisms that inhabit the oceans' depths and how they are connected to our food supply, the e...
LuAnn Dahlman
12 Dec 2011
Contributed by Lukas
LuAnn Dahlman, who spoke at the Aquarium on September 22, 2011, spent a season at McMurdo Station in Antarctica, working with an international group o...
Craig Heberer
08 Dec 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Craig Heberer, who spoke at the Aquarium on October 11, 2011, works as a fisheries biologist with National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Fish...
Joe Roman
08 Dec 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Joe Roman spoke at the Aquarium on September 28, 2011 about his research into the ecological role of whales in the ocean. He is a conservation biologi...
Michele Westmorland
03 Oct 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Michele Westmorland, who spoke at the Aquarium on March 30, 2011, is a photojournalist with a twenty-year history of traveling the world documenting t...
James Lindholm
03 Oct 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. James Lindholm, who spoke at the Aquarium on April 27, 2011, is the James W. Rote Distinguished Professor of Marine Science and Policy and the fou...
Dr. Milton Love
19 Sep 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Milton Love, who spoke at the Aquarium on June 7, 2011, is a research biologist at the Marine Science Institute at the University of California, S...
Marc Shargel
19 Sep 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Marc Shargel, who spoke at the Aquarium on June 28, 2011, has been diving along the California coast since 1978. He has been working as a professional...
Janna Shackeroff
19 Sep 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Janna Shackeroff, who spoke at the Aquarium on July 13, 2011, is the international coordinator for the NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program, based in ...
Juliet Eilperin
19 Sep 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Juliet Eilperin, who spoke at the Aquarium about sharks on July 27, 2011, joined The Washington Post in 1998 as its House of Representatives reporter....
David Helvarg
15 Nov 2010
Contributed by Lukas
David Helvarg is president of the Blue Frontier Campaign and the author of five books: The War Against the Greens, Blue Frontier, 50 Ways to Save the ...
Patricia Conrad
21 Oct 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Conrad is the professor of parasitology at the University of California, Davis, school of veterinary medicine. She is the recipient of several tea...
Eli Kintisch
20 Sep 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Eli Kintisch is a reporter for Science magazine, and has also written for Slate, Discover, MIT Technology Review and The New Republic. His reporting o...
Dr. Lance Adams
17 Sep 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Lance Adams has served as the staff Veterinarian at the Aquarium of the Pacific since 2001. He earned his BS degree in animal science from Cal Poly Po...
Jim Sanchirico
11 Aug 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Sanchirico is a professor of environmental science and policy at the University of California, Davis and a nonresident fellow of Resources for the Fut...
Tim Tinker
25 Jun 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Tim Tinker is a Research Wildlife Biologist with the Western Ecological Research Center of the U.S. Geological Survey, and an adjunct Professor in...
George Benz
18 May 2010
Contributed by Lukas
George W. Benz is a Professor of Biology at Middle Tennessee State University. A native of New England, George earned his B.Sc. and M.Sc. from the Uni...
Neil Sims Part 2
29 Apr 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Sims has a MS in zoology from the University of New South Wales and is the founding president of the Ocean Steward Institute. In this second video, Si...
Neil Sims Part 1
29 Apr 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Sims has a MS in zoology from the University of New South Wales and is the founding president of the Ocean Steward Institute. In this first video, Sim...
Trevor Corson
03 Apr 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Corson is a former commercial lobster fisherman turned pop-science writer and culinary expert. He is a best-selling author and a judge on the Food Net...
Nate Jaros
03 Mar 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Nate Jaros received his Bachelors Degree in Biology and Environmental Science form Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska. In 2002, Jaros began work...
Monty Graham
21 Jan 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. William (Monty) Graham is a Senior Marine Scientist at the Dauphin Island Sea Lab near Mobile, Alabama. He received his doctorate in Biology from ...
Eric Zahn
05 Jan 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Eric Zahn, a local salt marsh ecologist and avid botanist, is a co-principal for ‘Tidal Influence' a company he founded to aid community groups and ...
Barbara Taylor
11 Dec 2009
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Barbara Taylor is a Supervisory Research Fish Biologist with NOAA’s National Marine Fisheries Service. She was the U.S. lead scientist on a tri-...
Chris Harvey-Clark
25 Nov 2009
Contributed by Lukas
Since 1998 Jeffrey Gallant and Dr. Chris Harvey-Clark, Greenland Shark and Elasmobranch Education and Research Group (GEERG) shark researchers, have p...
James Wood
20 Oct 2009
Contributed by Lukas
James B. Wood, PhD is the Aquarium of the Pacific’s director of education. He has published numerous peer-reviewed and popular papers on cephalopod ...
Alex Hearn
14 Sep 2009
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Alex Hearn studied Oceanography and Marine Biology at Southampton University in the UK, and did his PhD at Heriot Watt University in the Orkney Is...
Jeff Graham
12 Sep 2009
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Jeffrey Graham is a research physiologist and senior lecturer at Scripps Institute of Oceanography. His research has expanded from studies on the ...
Gregor Cailliet
26 Aug 2009
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Gregor Cailliet received a doctorate in Biological Sciences at the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1972. That same year, he became a fa...
Chris Lowe - Shark Myths and Misconceptions
22 Aug 2009
Contributed by Lukas
Chris Lowe has been studying sharks for over 20 years and currently runs the Shark Lab at CSULB where he was recently awarded Professor of the Year. D...
May Student Scholar: Brent Maxwell Ward
24 Jun 2009
Contributed by Lukas
The Aquarium of the Pacific is pleased to announce Brent Maxwell Ward as its 10th Anniversary Scholar in May for his efforts in marine science and con...
Jesse Ausubel - Counting All the Fish in the Sea
01 May 2009
Contributed by Lukas
Jesse Ausubel is a Program Director for the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and Director of the Program for the Human Environment at The Rockefeller Univer...
Daniel Botkin
20 Feb 2009
Contributed by Lukas
Daniel Botkin is a scientist who studies life from a planetary perspective. He writes about nature, and is one of the world’s leading researchers wh...
Richard Ellis - Tuna: A Love Story
17 Feb 2009
Contributed by Lukas
Richard Ellis is one of America's leading marine conservationists, and is generally recognized as the foremost painter of marine natural history subje...
Peter Howorth
14 Feb 2009
Contributed by Lukas
For more than three decades, Peter Howorth has been involved in numerous nonprofit environmental organizations. He was president of the Santa Barbara ...
Desray Reeb: Whale Hugger
26 Jun 2008
Contributed by Lukas
Desray Reeb, Ph.D., is what is commonly called a whale hugger. She obtained her Ph.D. from the University of Pretoria, South Africa, where her researc...
Rescue Animals
30 Nov 2007
Contributed by Lukas
There are rescue animals, or animals that would not be able to survive in the wild, that reside at the Aquarium of the Pacific, including sea otters, ...