Aquatic Mammals - A Historical Perspective

About Aquatic Mammals - A Historical Perspective

The Aquatic Mammals journal's Historical Perspectives interview series is an ever-growing body of work that includes discussions with many founders of the marine mammal field. Originally developed as an on-camera interview series, select excerpts are now available as audio podcasts here on this channel. To see the full interviews of each participant then please visit aquaticmammalsjournal.org and click on the Historical Perspectives tab near the top.

Publisher

Aquatic Mammals Journal

Category

science

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

15 Feb 2022

Latest episode

13 Aug 2025

Latest episodes

48 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   13 Aug 2025

   RH DeFran talks about Career Moments

   Beginning in 1970, DeFran began a professorship in the Psychology Department at SDSU. Later, he worked with the Southwest Fisheries Science Center in La Jolla, CA, assuming responsibility for an ongoing boat-based photo-ID project designed to assess the population size and range characteristics of bottlenose dolphins in north San Diego County. Since 1984, Defran has conducted, and directed the Cetacean Behavior Laboratory’s dolphin population studies along the Southern California and Baja California Norte’s Pacific Ocean coastline, in the coastal waters of Belize, within Florida’s Indian River Lagoon, in the estuarine and coastal waters near Charleston, SC, and more recently, in the coastal waters of Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands.

2. 

   12 Aug 2025

   Dr. Burney LeBoeuf talks about Elephant Seals

   Dr. Burney LeBoeuf is Professor Emeritus of Biology at the University of California at Santa Cruz. With his background in Reproductive Endocrinology, Ecology, and Behavioral Biology, he has been a leader in research on marine mammals for many decades and known especially for ground-breaking studies of social behavior; diving behavior, diving physiology and migrations of seals, using wearable microcomputer, time-depth recorders, and satellite tags.

3. 

   7 Aug 2025

   Dr. Steven Swartz talks about grey whales

   Dr. Swartz graduated with his doctorate from the University of California at Santa Cruz. He's researched and published widely on gray whales and their breeding habitats in Baja California. Dr. Swartz has served as a consultant to the Mexican government’s Ministry for the Environment, Natural Resources, and Fisheries, and worked for Ocean Conservancy, the U.S. Marine Mammal Commission, and the U.S. National Marine Fisheries Service.

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YouTube views

86,083

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

3 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

1 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 56 / 100

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Quality

59

Social presence

0

YouTube

76

Engagement

60

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