Intertidal Pod(cast): Recent Episodes
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The Intertidal Pod(cast) focuses on discussions at the intersection of data, technology, and the planet. How we track and understand the world around us and who’s pioneering new ways of learning about the earth. Also, terrible fish puns.
When you start out wanting to be a fashion designer and end up defining a field to feed the planet. Dr. Halley Froehlich talks about how community college can change your life, the delight of a global open source coding community, and adorable spiny lumpsuckers. Also mentioned: Tidal fish farm monitoring from (Alphabet) X, Scoot Science, and the journey of the green sturgeon.
In this episode of the podcast, I’m speaking with Shah Selbe - a Conservation Technologist.
We get technical with conservation engineer Shah Selbe and Fieldkit, his project to make low-cost, connected sensors you can use anywhere in the world (except maybe a boiling river in the Amazon). Also mentioned: Christine Liu’s Art about Art & Science, DAT protocols, Los Angeles Unified School District’s Data Science curricula.
This episode of the podcast, I’m speaking with Dr. Jono Wilson, Lead Fisheries Scientist at the Nature Conservancy.
How do you get from fish data to fish decisions? People, discussions, and time. Dr. Jono Wilson talks about setting the stage for data-driven conversations with the FishPath tool, working in and out of academia, conservation aquaculture, and abalone “eyelashes.”
Kate, Emilie Franke, Kim Gordon and Katie Latanich talk about their careers in fisheries and building our data literacy as we go. Also, what to do with your Sony minidisc collection.
Resources for this episode: the EcoCast fish forecasting tool; the Global Dialogue on Seafood Traceability; and Too Big To Ignore, the home for research on the most common fisheries in the world - “small-scale fisheries.”
In episode three of this series, we're talking through the way data moves from its first collection to when it’s stored or deleted. How to think about the different stages of the data lifecycle to help your data live its best life and retire well.
Resources for this episode: a more detailed data life cycle and a video about how parrotfish poop creates white sand beaches.
In episode 2 of our series, we talk about data strategy, developing a data plan, and the tradeoffs between picking different data types. We also dive deeper into fishy data with our guest Dr. Bill Karp.
Resources for this episode: the paper I quote from on fisheries management, a description of America’s fisheries law (the Magnuson Stevens Act), and everything you need to know to navigate the fisheries management system from the Gulf of Maine Research Institute’s training program.
For our first episodes, we’ll dive into those questions and topics about data you think maybe you should know already.
We’re living in an age when “data” gets used in every other sentence and it can feel like we’re all expected to be expert data creators, analysts, stewards, and subjects. Data World is a lot. Let’s break it down, using as many fishy examples as we can.