Ocean Currents sheltering in place during Covid
Show host Jennifer Stock provides a brief update about Ocean Currents program on pause due to COVID.
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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 iss...
Episodes
20 of 126 episodesThe 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...
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 heatwav...
Broadcast live from the E/V Nautilus:Ocean Currents reporting from afar!
Recorded live from the E/V Nautilus, hear from marine scientists/explorers while at sea on an exploration mission of Cordell Bank and Greate...
Elephant Seals of Point Reyes: A Success Story of population rebound, expansion and resilience to ocean change
January in Point Reyes means elephant seals are on the beaches in Point Reyes. Marine mammals that spend months away from shore and sometime...
Velellas ashore! and protecting the lower end of the ocean food web in CA
Two part show, 1st half, Dr. Steven Haddock of MBARI talks about the mysterious and alien world of jellies, specifically "By the Wind Sailor...
Looking upstream for solutions to reduce marine debris and carbon emissions: Recycling 101
Recycling and reducing waste is a significant way to reduce the threat of marine debris and reduce carbon dioxide emissions that contribute...
Helping Kelp on the Northcoast of California
With an unprecedented loss of kelp coverage on the Marin/Sonoma coast, the State Fish and Wildlife and Greater Farallones National Marine Sa...
More Sex in the Sea!
Lets hear it for Sex! Its the one thing that needs to happen to sustain our ocean and Dr. Marah J Hardt tells us some wild tales from beneat...
Hope for People and the Ocean
The Honorable Dr. Jane Lubchenco gave a lecture titled Hope for People and the Ocean at the SF State Estuary and Ocean Science Center in Nov...
Do open ocean cleanups address our growing ocean trash problem effectively and California's new straw law!
Guests: Dr. Denise Hardesty of Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) and Lisa Kaas Boyle Learn about the late...
Part one: Reef Safe Sunscreen, what you need to know! Part two: natural history intensive on local beach ecology; sandhoppers, shrinking beaches, kelp and more!
Part one: Dr. Craig Downs of the Haereticus Environmental Laboratory talks about the devastating findings about coral reef loss and the cont...
Slowfish and hiking the California Coastal Trail
Hear highlights from the 2018 Slowfish conference hosted by SlowFood San Francisco, bringing fishermen, buyers and chefs together to move to...
Heirs to our Oceans-youth taking on ocean awareness and conservation
Meet a few of the Heirs to our Oceans who are a rising tide of young leaders who are taking on ocean conservation through education and acti...
Tomales Bay: whats going on upstream and downstream
Terry Sawyer, co-owner of Hog Island Oyster Company, board foundation member of the Tomales Bay Watershed Council and elected board member t...
The Return of Harbor Porpoise to San Francisco Bay
Harbor porpoise disappeared from San Francisco Bay in the 1960's and 70's and in recent years have returned heartily. Biologist Bill Keener...
Sea Foraging the Northern California Coast
Hear some salty stories about sea foraging/fishing on the Northern CA coast as written about by expert sea forager/educator/fish monger Kirk...
Wheres all the Sand going?
Guest Dr. Aurora Torres of the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research talks about the growing crisis of sand mining. Overexploi...
California Marine Protected Areas-5 years after implementation-where are we now?
Guest Cyndi Dawson a lead policy advisor on the Marine Protected Area Network in CA to the CA Ocean Protection Council, part of the CA Natur...
Sex in the Sea
Author Marah J. Hardt shares stories from her book Sex in the Sea: Our Intimate Connection with Sex- Changing Fish, Romantic Lobsters, Kinky...