Paramount Importance

About Paramount Importance

Welcome to Paramount Importance — where science meets curiosity. Hosted by marine scientist Kurt Krispyn, this podcast dives into the weird, wonderful, and wildly important questions about our world. Through open, honest, laid-back conversations with scientists, explorers, and big thinkers, we unpack the mysteries of nature, discovery, and human innovation. If you're into the unknown, the unexplained, and the unbelievable, you're in the right place.

Publisher

Kurt Krispyn

Category

education · science · science

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

6 Mar 2019

Latest episode

5 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

55 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   5 Oct 2026

   Ep 54 Magpie Dialects & Mimicry: How Birds Learn to Communicate | Dr Stephanie Mason

   Dr Stephanie Mason is an evolutionary biologist at The University of Western Australia researching how magpies learn to communicate, and what their calls could reveal about the evolution of human language. Her field research followed 11 young magpies over 200 days, tracking how their social relationships shape the development of complex call sequences. She joins Kurt Krispyn to explore magpie alarm calls, neighbourhood “dialects”, lifelong vocal learning and the difference between birdsong an...

2. 

   21 Sept 2026

   Ep 53 Coral Larval Enhancement Trial | Dr Jenny Shaw & Dr Damian Thompson

   Dr Damian Thomson from CSIRO has been working on reef systems at Nyinggulu since 2007, giving him a powerful long-term view of what has changed, what has been lost, and what still may be possible for Western Australia’s coral reefs. Joining him is Dr Jenny Shaw from the Western Australian Marine Science Institution, who helps take us behind the scenes of the WA Reef Regen Program — a major new effort to support coral and reef regeneration along the Western Australian coastline. After the de...

3. 

   7 Sept 2026

   Ep 52 The Big Blue Ocean | Professor Jessica Meeuwig

   Professor Jessica Meeuwig AM is one of Australia’s most important voices in ocean conservation. Recently appointed a Member of the Order of Australia for her significant service to marine conservation and research, Jessica is the inaugural Wen Family Chair in Conservation at The University of Western Australia and Director of the Marine Futures Lab. Her work has helped pioneer the global use of midwater BRUVS, baited remote underwater video systems used to study life in the “big blue”. This i...

Who has been a guest on Paramount Importance

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Dr Joe Fontaine
• Mike van Keulen
• Dr Megan Barnes
• Garth Maker
• Dr Anish Shah

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

1 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

24 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 30 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

60

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

0

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