Ocean Currents Radio Program

About Ocean Currents Radio Program

Ocean Currents is hosted by Cordell Bank National Marine Sanctuary on KWMR, community radio for West Marin in Northern California. The show hosts ocean experts about research, management issues, natural history, and stewardship associated with marine environment, especially in our National Marine Sanctuaries.

Publisher

Jennifer Stock

Category

society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

10 Apr 2008

Latest episode

18 Feb 2021

Latest episodes

125 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   18 Feb 2021

   Ocean Currents sheltering in place during Covid

   Show host Jennifer Stock provides a brief update about Ocean Currents program on pause due to COVID.

2. 

   3 Mar 2020

   The Ocean as a Solution to Climate Change: Five Opportunities for Action

   While solutions and efforts to reduce carbon emissions continue to build and expand, they are primarily land based. Guest Mansi Konar of the World Resource Institute shares how the High Level Panel for a Sustainable Ocean Economy analyzed ocean based solutions to contribute to reducing greenhouse gas emissions and reducing the "emissions gap" while at the same time providing co-benefits for sustainable development goals.

3. 

   12 Feb 2020

   1st half: Ocean heat waves link to whale entanglements: future management implications and 2nd half: Can Albatrosses work as defacto law enforcement on the high seas?

   1st half of show: Dr. Jarrod Santora of NOAA of the Southwest Fisheries Science Center talks about the cascading effects of a marine heatwave on whale prey, whale feeding, Dungeness crab season and whale entanglements and discusses new tools and collaborations to proactively address future marine heatwaves to minimize negative impacts to species. On the 2nd half of the show Dr. Melinda Connors, a conservation ecologist at SUNY Stony Brook discusses the amazing information bio loggers placed on albatrosses can tell us about not only their lives, but about activities on the high seas. Could they be defacto law enforcement on the high seas?

Reach and audience

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Apple Podcasts (US)

4.8 / 5

47 ratings

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