Speak Up For The Ocean Blue show

Speak Up For The Ocean Blue

Summary: Speak Up For The Ocean Blue raises awareness of the variety of ocean science and conservation projects conducted all around the world. It educates you, the listener, on the different Ocean Conservation Projects that are happening around the world. By listening to our guests, I hope to inspire you to live an ocean-friendly life through their stories and the information I provide to guide you towards a living a life that will be healthy for the Ocean. On the podcast episodes, I discuss, sharks, marine mammals (whales, dolphins, manatees, sea lions, seals), seabirds, fish (tuna, salmon, mackerel, cod, etc) as well as ocean issues like climate change/global warming (ocean acidification, increased sea temperatures, sea level rise, arctic melting, changing weather patterns), water pollution, plastic pollution (single-use plastic), coastal development, overfishing, whale hunting, fish poaching and more.

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Podcasts:

 SUFB 514: Why Are There So Many Great Whites In Northern California with Dr. Dave Ebert | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 31:33

Northern California has seen an increase in Great White Shark populations. Why has this happened? Dave is here to let us know why.

 SUFB 513: Finding New Sharks In Sri Lanka with Dr. Dave Ebert | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 35:10

Dr. Dave Ebert has had an illustrious career in shark research, especially discovering new shark, ray and chimera species. He is at it again, but this time he travels to Sri Lanka for the discovery.

 SUFB 512: 30th Anniversary of Shark Week Kickoff with Dr. David Shiffman | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 39:29

Dr. David Shiffman goes through the good, the bad and the ugly parts of Shark Week's 30 year legacy as it plans to kick off this week's programming.

 SUFB 511: Speak Up For Blue Facebook Group Works To Help Solve Watersport Incidences With Sea Turtles | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 18:03

Want to help sea turtles, maybe you should join the Speak Up For Blue Facebook Group to offer advice to other members who are having a difficult time with a specific issue.

 SUFB 510: Florida Fish And Wildlife Commission Request Proposals To Limit Land-Based Shark Fisheries | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 14:58

After numerous social media posts of large sharks, including the protected hammerhead shark, being made public, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission are asking for proposal for limitations to the fisheries.

 SUFB 509: Scientist Discovers Hermaphrodite Sharks Off East Coast Of India | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 10:24

Alissa Barnes presented a rare discovery at IMCC5. She found 7 bigeye houndsharks were hermaphrodites. Is it human-caused or otherwise? Only time will tell.

 SUFB 508: We Need To Talk About What Happened At A Recent Conference | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 16:43

What happened during an acceptance speech at a conference should have never happened, but it did and we need to talk about it.

 SUFB 507: Columbian Army Dispatched To Protect Black Land Crab In Providencia | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 13:49

Increases in tourism has decreased the population of endemic black land crabs in Columbia, on which the local people of the Island of Providencia rely. The government dispatched the army during its migration and reproduction period to help protect them.

 SUFB 506: Illegal Fishing Detected In Mediterranean MPAs | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 12:15

Oceana was released a report condemning many Mediterranean nations for not protecting their fisheries enough.

 SUFB 505: Working Toward Decolonizing Marine Conservation | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 17:17

Parachute science/conservation never works in the long term and John Aini form Papua New Guinea tells us why through an interview in Mongabay News.

 SUFB 504: Nurse Sharks and Common Sense 101 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 20:51

Will the acts of a few people have a negative impact on the nurse sharks population's reputation and future health.

 SUFB 503: Whale Watchers Criticize Canadian Government On Orca Viewing Distance of 200m | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 12:12

The Southern Resident Orca population is down to 75 individuals and are in need of some dire help. The Canadian Government has some ideas, but some do not agree.

 SUFB 502: Scott Pruitt Out As EPA Chief Administrator | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 10:12

Ding dong the witch is gone!!! Unfortunately, his replacement is the exact same...ugh!!!

 SUFB 501: 10 Years of SciComm with Dr. Andrew Thaler Part 2 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 30:39

Part 2 of my conversation with Andrew Thaler on the evolution of Ocean SciComm as well on our evolution as individuals.

 SUFB 500: 500th Episode and 10 Years Of SciComm with Dr. Andrew Thaler | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 23:37

What do 2 Marine Science Communicators do during a 22 hour layover in Singapore after an intense 7 day Marine Science and Conservation Conference? We record a podcast of course!!! But first, we looked for wild boars and monkeys!!!

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