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Data-limited Marine Species and Fisheries – from Blue Crabs to Sharks
Read more: Data-limited Marine Species and Fisheries – from Blue Crabs to SharksSally Dowd is a marine scientist and the Co-Founder, President, and Lead Scientist of the Twin Fins Alliance. Her work focuses on improving our understanding of data-limited marine species and fisheries, particularly wide- ranging predators such as coastal sharks. During her PhD research, she combined ecological modeling with interviews with recreational fishers along the North…
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Waves of Sustainable Change
Read more: Waves of Sustainable ChangeIn recent years, research on kelp and other seaweeds has increasingly demonstrated potential health benefits, and they have rapidly gained popularity as daily support supplements. It is also being explored as a bio-alternative to plastics, driving increased demand for access to healthy seaweed and reputable growers. Prior to these discoveries, seaweed had long been dismissed,…
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When Creativity Meets Conservation
Read more: When Creativity Meets ConservationThe Power of Art to Protect Our Oceans Off the coast of Italy, a striking art installation rises from the turquoise waters, capturing the attention of visitors and local communities alike. Created by artist Paolo Fanciulli, the installation is more than an aesthetic experience — it serves as a visual call to action, drawing attention…
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Fragmented Plastics & Soft Tissue Coral Health
Read more: Fragmented Plastics & Soft Tissue Coral HealthIn today’s episode I am joined by Makayla Ward, an undergraduate zoological sciences student at Southern Illinois University Carbondale whose research explores how environmental stressors affect aquatic ecosystems. Growing up in a small town in Arkansas, far from the ocean, her curiosity about the unknown world beneath the water led her into marine and freshwater…
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Hoist the Corals
Read more: Hoist the CoralsWhy Getting Them off the Ground Might Be the Smartest Way to Save our Reefs The ocean is quiet here, not the silence of emptiness, but of suspension. Light filters down through endless blue, soft and scattered, illuminating shapes that should not exist so far from shore. Corals glow faintly in the midwater, their forms…
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Madagascar Whale Shark Project
Read more: Madagascar Whale Shark ProjectIn this episode I’m joined by Stella Diamant, a marine biologist, conservationist and founder of the Madagascar Whale Shark Project. Madagascar’s first dedicated whale shark research and conservation programme. She has spent the past eight field seasons studying endangered whale sharks and other marine megafauna through long-term photo-identification, acoustic tracking, feeding ecology, genetics, and pollution…
