Oceanography (Audio)

About Oceanography (Audio)

Guest speakers, researchers and University of California faculty explore our understanding of research in marine science.

Publisher

UCTV

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

28 Jul 2020

Latest episode

28 Aug 2026

Latest episodes

2 of 40 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   28 Aug 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Neurobiology in a Changing Ocean with Martin Tresguerres

   Martin Tresguerres, Ph.D., discusses how neurobiology research at the Allen Discovery Center addresses climate change impacts on marine animal nervous systems and behavior.

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   23 Feb 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Science and Seafood: Understanding and Protecting a Precious Natural Resource

   If you love seafood, you’re not alone — but every bite comes from a complex and fragile marine ecosystem. To keep our ocean ecosystems thriving and our seafood resources abundant, we need a deeper scientific understanding of how they function. Colleen Petrik, a professor of oceanography at UC San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography, talks about her work studying the changing ecosystem of the ocean from fishing to coastal development. Series: "Jeffrey B. Graham Perspectives on Ocean Science Lecture Series" [Science] [Show ID: 41301]

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   5 Jan 2026

   Harnessing Nature's Innovations from the Sea

   How do most organisms in the natural world communicate? It's through the language of chemistry. Scripps Institution of Oceanography marine biologists Bradley Moore and Natalie Grayson explore how ocean life uses molecules as a language. Examples include a pigment that lets squid and octopus change color for camouflage, a coral and its microbial partners that produce biologically active compounds, and a chemical now in phase three human clinical trials to treat glioblastoma, an aggressive cancer of the brain. Their research has applications for new materials in biotech, and improving the food supply and human health. Series: "Jeffrey B. Graham Perspectives on Ocean Science Lecture Series" [Science] [Show ID: 41190]

Inside a recent episode

Neurobiology in a Changing Ocean with Martin Tresguerres

Published 28 Aug 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] This will be the mouth of the polyp. The green is, they're fluorescent, the corals are fluorescent. The red are the symbiotic algae that leaves. Each of these tiny little dots is an algae, and the yellow signal that you see there is a label for a specific type of neurotransmitter that is important for corals and other invertebrates, but it's not important at all in humans. And just to give you a glimpse of what we're seeing here, again, in greater detail, we see algae, the symbiotic algae, which are living inside the cells of the coral. And here in this image from Tati, you can see the label showing neurons or neuronal cells from the coral that are in close proximity to the algae. […]

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Apple Podcasts (US)

4.9 / 5

38 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 40 / 100

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59

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

51

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