Rising Tide: The Ocean Podcast: Recent Episodes
David Helvarg
Rising Tide, the Ocean Podcast is co-hosted by Blue Frontier's David Helvarg and Vicki Nichols Goldstein, Founder and Director of the Inland Ocean Coalition. This podcast aims to give you information, inspiration and motivation (along with a few laughs) to help understand our ocean world and make it better. The ocean is rising, and so are we!
In the latest episode of ‘Rising Tide, the Ocean Podcast,’ David and Natasha speak with Dr. Ben Halpern. Along with being a past Peter Benchley Ocean Award winner, Ben serves as Director of the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, a research center at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he is also a professor of marine biology and conservation science. Among his numerous honors and research papers, he’s contributed to a new report published in Science magazine warning that the world’s ecosystems could be permanently altered – meaning degraded - by mid-century if the present trend in greenhouse gas pollution, industrial overfishing, and coastal development continues unabated. Ben also offers some ideas on how each of us can act in ways that can help reverse that trend. So, give a listen, learn a bit, and visit the ocean when you can.
Links & Resources
Cumulative impacts to global marine ecosystems projected to more than double by mid-century.
Blue Frontier — Building the solution-based citizen movement needed to protect our ocean, coasts and communities, both human and wild.
Blue Frontier on Substack
Inland Ocean Coalition — Building land-to-sea stewardship - the inland voice for ocean protection
Fluid Studios — Thinking radically different about the collective good, our planet, & the future.
In the latest episode of ‘Rising Tide, the Ocean Podcast,’ David speaks with Erica Hammond, Legislative Director of the Rhode Island AFL-CIO. They represent most of the roughly 1,000 workers who’ve been out of a job since the Trump administration issued a stop-work order in August on the ‘Revolution’ wind farm project. That’s a 5 billion-dollar 80 percent completed offshore wind farm that was slated to bring clean power to New England next year while saving ratepayers money.
Erica talks about how groups like ‘Climate Jobs Rhode Island’ helped bring unions, environmentalists and low-income communities together to promote an energy transition for ‘the Ocean State.’ She’ll also talk about how labor and its partners including the state government and Orsted, the Danish company building ‘Revolution,’ plan to fight back against the Trump administration’s pro-oil attacks on clean energy and particularly on offshore wind. This is one you won’t want to miss.
Links & Resources
Blue Frontier:bluefront.org — Building the solution-based citizen movement needed to protect our ocean, coasts and communities, both human and wild.
Blue Frontier on Substack: https://davidhelvarg.substack.com/
Inland Ocean Coalition:inlandoceancoalition.org — Building land-to-sea stewardship - the inland voice for ocean protection
Fluid Studios:fluidstudios.org — Thinking radically different about the collective good, our planet, & the future.
In the latest episode of 'Rising Tide, the Ocean Podcast,' hosts David Helvarg and Vicki Nichols Goldstein of the Inland Ocean Coalition interview Dr. Drew Harvell, an esteemed professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at Cornell University. The discussion delves into the recent breakthrough in identifying the bacteria responsible for sea star wasting disease, which has decimated starfish populations and kelp forests on the West Coast. Dr. Harvell reveals her journey into marine biology, highlights her research on marine ecosystem health, and discusses her influential books, including 'A Sea of Glass' and 'The Ocean's Menagerie.' Dr. Harvell emphasizes the impact of pathogen pollution on marine life, the interconnectedness of human and environmental health, and the therapeutic potential of marine organisms. The episode underscores the critical need for better ocean management and the role of art in translating scientific knowledge to foster public interest and understanding.
Links & Resources
Catherine Drew Harvell of Cornell: https://ecologyandevolution.cornell.edu/catherine-drew-harvell
Check out her books, Sea of Glass (https://a.co/d/41kufFg), Ocean Outbreak (https://a.co/d/ihQpRi5), and her latest Ocean's Menagerie (https://a.co/d/0R5dK53)
Blaschka Glass Collection: https://digital.library.cornell.edu/collections/blaschka
World Bank Project: https://projects.worldbank.org/en/projects-operations/projects-home
Blue Frontier:bluefront.org
Building the solution-based citizen movement needed to protect our ocean, coasts and communities, both human and wild.
Blue Frontier on Substack: https://davidhelvarg.substack.com/
Inland Ocean Coalition:inlandoceancoalition.org
Building land-to-sea stewardship - the inland voice for ocean protection
Fluid Studios:fluidstudios.org
Thinking radically different about the collective good, our planet, & the future.
The latest episode of Rising Tide: The Ocean Podcast features a conversation with Kirsten Donald, a marine mammal biologist, educator, and ocean advocate with the Pacific Marine Mammal Center in Laguna Beach, California. This renowned rescue center responds to whales and dolphins in distress while rehabilitating and releasing hundreds of sick and injured seals and sea lions each year.
Before joining the Pacific Marine Mammal Center, Kirsten spent 18 years at the Dolphin Research Center in the Florida Keys, where she also co-founded and directed the College of Marine Mammal Professions.
Learn about the current state of marine mammals, the impacts of climate change, and challenges facing gray whales. Kirsten shares memorable release stories—including a group of sea lion pups who checked in on each other before re-entering the ocean—and discusses why now is the time to strengthen, not weaken, marine mammal protection.
Links & Resources
Pacific Marine Mammal Center
It’s Time To Save The Whales Again
Blue Frontier: Building the solution-based citizen movement needed to protect our ocean, coasts and communities, both human and wild.
Blue Frontier on Substack
Inland Ocean Coalition: Building land-to-sea stewardship - the inland voice for ocean protection
Fluid Studios: Thinking radically different about the collective good, our planet, & the future.
The latest episode of the Rising Tide Ocean Podcast features an excerpt from a recent conversation between David Helvarg and Chris Clarke of the desert podcast 90 Miles from Needles. Clarke discusses Helvarg’s first book, The War Against the Greens (1994), which was highly influential in exposing a violent environmental backlash funded by western industries such as hard-rock mining, beef, and timber.
Helvarg draws parallels between that earlier backlash and today’s top-down right-wing attacks on environmental laws and agencies under President Trump. He explores how violent rhetoric and climate denial merged within a Republican Party that once championed both environmental protection and democracy. He also explains how the oil and gas industry applied lessons from the past to obstruct the growth of clean energy, and reflects on what he now believes is most effective in the fight to protect the planet’s blue world—and humanity itself.
Links & Resources
90 Miles From Needles Podcast
https://www.90milesfromneedles.com/
Blue Frontier:bluefront.org
Building the solution-based citizen movement needed to protect our ocean, coasts and communities, both human and wild.
Blue Frontier on Substack: https://davidhelvarg.substack.com/
Inland Ocean Coalition:inlandoceancoalition.org
Building land-to-sea stewardship - the inland voice for ocean protection
Fluid Studios:fluidstudios.org
Thinking radically different about the collective good, our planet, & the future.
Unpacking Trump’s Ocean Rollbacks
In the latest Rising Tide: The Ocean Podcast David and Vicki talk with former Ocean Conservancy Chief Scientist and policy expert George Leonard about the Trump administration’s approach to our public seas. In taking a closer look at the BBB (‘Big Beautiful’ or ‘Big Brother’) mega-bill that Congress just passed, George breaks down many of the vital services from ocean observation and weather labs to protection of salmon, parks in the sea and public education, fishing regulation, beach pollution warning systems, deep-sea exploration and coastal management that will be gutted or terminated under this law.
Listening to area experts like George you realize not only will this legislation blow a hole in the deficit and untax the rich, it will expand offshore oil drilling and put more mercury in tuna. It may even mark the end of right whales along with many of our own rights. So, tune in to hear what George has to say about Trump 2.0 policies and his major new law that treats the Ocean as little more than a gas station and a garbage dump. Also, hear what he thinks you can still do about it.
Links & Resources
Blue Frontier:bluefront.org — Building the solution-based citizen movement needed to protect our ocean, coasts and communities, both human and wild.
Blue Frontier on Substack: https://davidhelvarg.substack.com/
Inland Ocean Coalition:inlandoceancoalition.org — Building land-to-sea stewardship - the inland voice for ocean protection
Fluid Studios:fluidstudios.org — Thinking radically different about the collective good, our planet, & the future.
Protecting Wildlife, Enforcing Change: A Global Dive with WildAid’s Meaghan Brosnan
In the latest episode David & Vicki talk with Wildaid CEO Meaghan Brosnan who, when it comes to marine wildlife and protected areas, is all about the enforcement. Wildaid is a leading international non-profit dedicated to saving the world’s declining wildlife species, perhaps best known for its decade-long media campaign that helped turn China from a consumer to an opponent of shark finning.
Since taking over in 2017, Meaghan has expanded Wildaid’s ocean programs 10-fold with an emphasis on putting the bad guys away. No surprise, given her 20 years of service in the US Coast Guard, much of it in the Marine Resources Enforcement program. David & Vicki talk to her about her blue background, how a non-profit can help locals enforce protection of their (more than 20 nations’) waters and much more. And of course, Blue News You Can Use. Dive in with us.
Links & Resources
Wild Aid: https://wildaid.org/
Blue Frontier:bluefront.org
Building the solution-based citizen movement needed to protect our ocean, coasts and communities, both human and wild.
Blue Frontier on Substack: https://davidhelvarg.substack.com/
Inland Ocean Coalition:inlandoceancoalition.org
Building land-to-sea stewardship - the inland voice for ocean protection
Fluid Studios:fluidstudios.org
Thinking radically different about the collective good, our planet, & the future.
In the latest episode of Rising Tide: The Ocean Podcast, David & Vicki bring you some of the news that other media may not have. Earlier in June there was a United Nations Ocean Conference in Nice, France attended by thousands of people including many heads of state. While a lot got done there, there was little coverage of it in the United States.
That’s why Rising Tide Ocean Podcast recently talked with Mike Sutton, Executive Director of the Goldman Environmental Prize and Lindsay Gordon, head of Global Programs at Parley for the Oceans, both of whom were there in Nice. They’ll give us their impressions about what worked and what didn’t in terms of a global High Seas Treaty, new Marine Protected Areas including the world’s largest, what was said about Deep Sea Mining and what role climate change and industrial overfishing played. The changing positions of government delegations and citizen groups is also worth hearing about. So, Join us and dive in for a lively and hopeful world-spanning discussion.
Links & Resources
Goldman Environmental Prize: https://www.goldmanprize.org/
Parley For The Ocean: https://parley.tv/
UN Ocean Conference: https://sdgs.un.org/conferences/ocean2025
BB NJ Deep Sea Mining Global Plastics Treaty: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBNJ_Agreement
White Shark Cafe: https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/rivers-oceans/white-shark-cafe-the-mysterious-meeting-spot-for-great-whites-in-the-middle-of-the-pacific-ocean
Blue Frontier: bluefront.org
Building the solution-based citizen movement needed to protect our ocean, coasts and communities, both human and wild.
Blue Frontier on Substack: https://davidhelvarg.substack.com/
Inland Ocean Coalition: inlandoceancoalition.org
Building land-to-sea stewardship - the inland voice for ocean protection
Fluid Studios: fluidstudios.org
Thinking radically different about the collective good, our planet, & the future.
In this episode of the Rising Tide Ocean Podcast, hosts David Helvarg and Vicki Nichols Goldstein welcome Tom Ford, CEO of the Bay Foundation and Director of the Santa Monica Bay National Estuary Program. They discuss Ford's journey from his first ocean encounter in high school to his extensive work in kelp forest restoration. Ford shares insights into the Bay Foundation's efforts, including restoring 75 acres of kelp forest off Palos Verdes, California, reintroducing endangered white abalones, and collaborating with commercial sea urchin harvesters. The conversation covers the challenges and successes of these restoration projects, the impact of environmental changes, and the importance of continued funding and community engagement. Ford also talks about his memorable kelp dives and the significance of creating sustainable marine ecosystems.
Links & Resources
Sequoias of the Seas:** An award-winning documentary by Blue Frontier.
https://sequoiasofthesea.org/
The Bay Foundation:** Tom Ford is the CEO of this organization.
https://www.santamonicabay.org/
Santa Monica Bay National SJA Program:** Tom Ford is the director of this program.
https://www.santamonicabay.org/
UCLA Ocean Discovery Center:** A small aquarium at the Santa Monica Pier where Tom Ford worked.
https://www.ioes.ucla.edu/marine/
University of Rhode Island:** Where Tom Ford studied biology.
https://www.uri.edu/
Bodega Marine Lab, UC Davis:** Involved in white abalone recovery efforts.
https://marinescience.ucdavis.edu/bml/about
Blue Frontier:bluefront.org
Building the solution-based citizen movement needed to protect our ocean, coasts and communities, both human and wild.
Blue Frontier on Substack: https://davidhelvarg.substack.com/
Inland Ocean Coalition:inlandoceancoalition.org
Building land-to-sea stewardship - the inland voice for ocean protection
Fluid Studios:fluidstudios.org
Thinking radically different about the collective good, our planet, & the future.
In the latest episode of Rising Tide, the Ocean Podcast David Helvarg and Natasha Benjamin talk with Kim McIntyre, the Executive Director of the Aquarium Conservation Partnership, a coalition of 35 aquariums working together to increase their collective impact. Along with helping revive the Peter Benchley Ocean Awards that took place at the National Aquarium in May, the 9-year-old coalition is involved in educating its members’ 40 million annual visitors around issues of sustainable seafood, climate change, plastic pollution and more.
Kim talks about the changing role of aquariums as conservation hubs for the sea, marine animal rehab and release centers and how many children are transformed by their first visit to an aquarium.
Plus, we’ll have our ‘Blue News You Can Use’: This week on the threat of Deep-Sea Mining that the Trump administration has just embraced. So, dive into our aquarium special.
Links & Resources
National Aquarium: https://aqua.org/
Aquarium Conservation Partnership: https://www.aquariumconservation.org/
The Metals Company: https://metals.co/
UN's International Seabed Authority: https://www.isa.org.jm/
New England Aquarium: https://www.neaq.org/
The New York Aquarium: https://nyaquarium.com/
Monterey Bay Aquarium: https://www.montereybayaquarium.org/
Shedd Aquarium: https://www.sheddaquarium.org/
West Coast Governor's Alliance on Ocean Health: https://www.westcoastoceanalliance.org/
Blue Frontier:bluefront.org
Building the solution-based citizen movement needed to protect our ocean, coasts and communities, both human and wild.
Blue Frontier on Substack: https://davidhelvarg.substack.com/
Inland Ocean Coalition:inlandoceancoalition.org
Building land-to-sea stewardship - the inland voice for ocean protection
Fluid Studios:fluidstudios.org
Thinking radically different about the collective good, our planet, & the future.
Our latest episode of Rising Tide the Ocean Podcast ranges from Palau in the central Pacific to Washington D.C. After a short Blue News update with Congressman Jared Huffman in his DC office we go to the shark enhanced – not infested - waters of Palau where Blue Frontier's David Helvarg interviews Tiani Dun an underwater photographer who also organizes dive charters, part of the multi-billion-dollar global scuba diving industry.
Co-Owner of Dive and More, a company that focuses its dive trips around underwater photography and more recently, marine conservation, Tiani’s also a marine biologist, surfer and drone pilot from Byron Bay Australia. So, lots to cover this episode from political resistance to Trump administration attacks on our public seas to diving with big critters in one of the world’s last best coral reef habitats and Marine Protected Areas. So, let’s dive in!
Links & Resources
Tiani Dun: https://www.tianidun.com/
Shiver: https://www.tianidun.com/shop/p/harvest-moon-cup-5fc72-ww9xn
Eagle Ray: https://www.tianidun.com/shop/p/earth-sky-planter-4awkk-lm479-pwat8-n5rrk
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tianioceani/
Dive and Moore: https://www.diveandmore.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dive_and_more/
James Cook University (JCU): https://www.jcu.edu.au/
Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority: https://www2.gbrmpa.gov.au/
Magnetic Island, Australia: https://www.townsvillenorthqueensland.com.au/destinations/magnetic-island/
Palau's Marine Protected Areas: https://marine-conservation.org/blue-sparks/projects/palau-nms
Manta Trust: https://www.mantatrust.org/
Shark Trust: https://www.sharktrust.org/
Blue Frontier:bluefront.org
Building the solution-based citizen movement needed to protect our ocean, coasts and communities, both human and wild.
Blue Frontier on Substack: https://davidhelvarg.substack.com/
Inland Ocean Coalition:inlandoceancoalition.org
Building land-to-sea stewardship - the inland voice for ocean protection
Fluid Studios:fluidstudios.org
Thinking radically different about the collective good, our planet, & the future.
On Friday April 25 the Rising Tide Ocean Podcast recorded our show with a live audience during SF Climate Week – one of the largest climate gatherings in the world. From the downtown studios of KALW – “The Voice of the Bay Area,” David and Natasha discussed global and Bay Area aspects of the Ocean and the Climate Crisis with guests Rod Fujita, a marine consultant and recently retired director of ocean research and development for the Environmental Defense Fund and Sejal Choksi-Chugh an attorney and Executive Director of the San Francisco Baykeeper. We had a lively and informative discussion about impacts and solutions for our global seas and West Coast estuary. Our live audience enjoyed it and we hope you will too.
Links & Resources
Making Shift Happen - https://www.amazon.com/Making-Shift-Happen-Successful-Environmental/dp/0865719489
Heal The Ocean: https://www.amazon.com/Heal-Ocean-Solutions-Saving-Seas/dp/0865715009
Ocean Innovations: https://www.oceaninnovations.me/
San Francisco Baykeeper: https://baykeeper.org/
Blue Frontier:bluefront.org
Building the solution-based citizen movement needed to protect our ocean, coasts and communities, both human and wild.
Blue Frontier on Substack: https://davidhelvarg.substack.com/
Inland Ocean Coalition:inlandoceancoalition.org
Building land-to-sea stewardship - the inland voice for ocean protection
Fluid Studios:fluidstudios.org
Thinking radically different about the collective good, our planet, & the future.
In the latest and award-winning Rising Tide: the Ocean Podcast, David Helvarg, and Vicki Nichols-Goldstein speak with Jeremy Rifkin, who wants us to rethink our home in the universe. He is a best-selling author of 23 books translated into 35 languages and a major climate advisor to the European Union and China. He has returned to basics with his newest book, "Planet Aqua," about how water is the animating force of life, something the team at Blue Frontier has long known and believed. Jeremy Rifkin gives his perspective on how to convert our approach to water from a 'resource' to a 'life source' that can guide us into a future better adapted to our amazing hydrosphere. Dive into "Planet Aqua".
Links & Resources
Planet Aqua: https://www.amazon.com/Planet-Aqua-Rethinking-Home-Universe/dp/1509563733
Age of Resilience: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1250093546?tag=macmillan-20
Blue Frontier:bluefront.org
Building the solution-based citizen movement needed to protect our ocean, coasts and communities, both human and wild.
Blue Frontier on Substack: https://davidhelvarg.substack.com/
Inland Ocean Coalition:inlandoceancoalition.org
Building land-to-sea stewardship - the inland voice for ocean protection
Fluid Studios:fluidstudios.org
Thinking radically different about the collective good, our planet, & the future.
In the latest episode of the award-winning Rising Tide: the Ocean Podcast David and Vicki talk with retired NOAA Captain Craig McLean about the Trump administration’s attacks on the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration. 20 percent of its workforce including weather forecasters and ocean and climate scientists have already been laid off and more than 10 percent of the budget cut and things could get worse.
Having spent his career as a ship’s master in the uniformed NOAA Corps and as a lawyer and administrator including Acting Chief Scientist during the first Trump administration when he stood up for scientific integrity during the Sharpie-gate scandal, Craig will give us his unique perspective on what’s going on, and the importance of what NOAA does day to day to help our economy, security and environment and what we can all do to protect its work. This is one you won’t want to miss.
Links & Resources
NOAA : https://www.noaa.gov/
Dr. Carol Lichfield: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carol_Litchfield
Dr.Rita Caldwell: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rita_R._Colwell
United States Coast and Geodetic Survey: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Coast_and_Geodetic_Survey
National Marine Sanctuary Program: https://sanctuaries.noaa.gov/
Blue Frontier:bluefront.org
Building the solution-based citizen movement needed to protect our ocean, coasts and communities, both human and wild.
Blue Frontier on Substack: https://davidhelvarg.substack.com/
Inland Ocean Coalition:inlandoceancoalition.org
Building land-to-sea stewardship - the inland voice for ocean protection
Fluid Studios:fluidstudios.org
Thinking radically different about the collective good, our planet, & the future.
In our new episode of Rising Tide - the Ocean Podcast David Helvarg & Vicki Nichols Goldstein talk with friends Natasha Benjamin of Blue Frontier and Ana Blanco of the International Ocean Film Festival about their new role as co-directors of ‘Sequoias of the Sea.’ SOS as it’s also known is a 54-minute documentary film about the global crisis facing Kelp Forests. It tells that story through the lens of the people of Fort Bragg California, a former timber town on the state’s north coast. Natasha & Ana talk about the challenges of making the film and the challenges the people of Fort Bragg are facing as they try to create a new blue economy in the face of lost jobs, culture and sport that went away with the kelp. They also talk about its upcoming Première at the Ocean film festival in San Francisco on April 13 and how listeners can see it and learn more about the film and the marine forest.
SEQUOIAS OF THE SEA: www.sequoiasofthesea.org
When a vital kelp forest vanishes, a coastal town's fragile ecosystem, ancient traditions, and livelihoods crumble, forcing a desperate fight for restoration in the face of climate change.
22nd Annual International Ocean Film Festival: https://intloceanfilmfest.org/
The global platform for ocean literacy and education throughout independent film. Since our inception in 2004, each year the IOFF features a four-day ocean engagement event for audiences from around the world.
Blue Frontier:bluefront.org
Building the solution-based citizen movement needed to protect our ocean, coasts and communities, both human and wild.
Blue Frontier on Substack: https://davidhelvarg.substack.com/
Inland Ocean Coalition:inlandoceancoalition.org
Building land-to-sea stewardship - the inland voice for ocean protection
Fluid Studios:fluidstudios.org
Thinking radically different about the collective good, our planet, & the future.
This fall NASA launched the Europa Clipper spaceship on a mission to the Jupiter moon of Europa to see if life might exist in its subsurface ocean. In this episode of ‘Rising Tide the Ocean Podcast’ David & Vicki interview Dr. Kathy Crane who was key to the discovery and mapping of hydrothermal vents in the deep Pacific 45 years ago when new ‘chemosynthetic’ life including giant clams and tubeworms were discovered. These are the kinds of deep ocean life that might exist on Europa and elsewhere in the universe. We talk with Kathy about being a woman geologist in these famed days of deep-sea discovery as well as her work exploring the Arctic Sea bottom during the Cold War. It’s a fascinating tale of science and the thrill of discovering new realms. Dive in with us..
Links & Resources
Sea Legs, Tales of a Woman Oceanographer: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/kathleen-crane/sea-legs/9780813342856/?lens=basic-books
Blue Frontier:bluefront.org
Building the solution-based citizen movement needed to protect our ocean, coasts and communities, both human and wild.
Blue Frontier on Substack: https://davidhelvarg.substack.com/
Inland Ocean Coalition:inlandoceancoalition.org
Building land-to-sea stewardship - the inland voice for ocean protection
Fluid Studios:fluidstudios.org
Thinking radically different about the collective good, our planet, & the future.
In our latest episode of ‘Rising Tide the Ocean Podcast’ David and Vicki check in on Nat Herz founder and reporter at The Northern Journal. After covering our 49th state (including one third of America’s coastline) for the Alaska Daily News and Alaska Public Media Nick set out on his own in 2022, creating an Anchorage-based investigative newsletter covering issues from public lands and water, energy, mining, fisheries, politics, dog sled racing, everything the Alaskan public has a right to know. Now a must read in Alaska with stories picked up by every media outlet in the state the Northern Journal is what you might get if I.F. Stone met a polar bear. We ask Nat about his take on Alaska in the world, how things might change – or not change – during Trump 2.0 and what it’s like covering a beat the size of Western Europe but mostly without roads. It’s a fascinating take on journalism on ‘The Last Frontier.’
Links & Resources
The Northern Journal: https://www.northernjournal.com/
Blue Frontier:bluefront.org
Building the solution-based citizen movement needed to protect our ocean, coasts and communities, both human and wild.
Blue Frontier on Substack: https://davidhelvarg.substack.com/
Inland Ocean Coalition:inlandoceancoalition.org
Building land-to-sea stewardship - the inland voice for ocean protection
Fluid Studios:fluidstudios.org
Thinking radically different about the collective good, our planet, & the future.
In this episode of 'Rising Tide, the Ocean podcast,' hosts David Helvarg and Vicki Nichols Goldstein interview Melanie McField, the founder and director of Healthy Reefs for Healthy People. Melanie shares her journey from a childhood interest in marine biology to her work in Belize with the Peace Corps and beyond. She discusses the creation of the world's first science-based coral reef report card, which evaluates the health of the Mesoamerican Reef, the second-largest coral reef system globally. Melanie details the indicators used in the report card, including coral cover, macro-algae levels, herbivorous fish populations, and commercial fish stocks. She explains the impact of COVID-19 on fishing practices and reef health, the importance of protected areas, and the ongoing challenges of pollution and nutrient management. The conversation also touches on global reef stressors like coral bleaching and disease and the potential for coral restoration projects. Melanie expresses cautious optimism for the future, citing the dedication of conservation groups and innovative restoration efforts.
Protecting Alaska’s Wild Salmon: Challenges, Conservation, and Climate Change
Last fall we spoke with a University of Alaska scientist about the state of salmon. Today we speak with Tim Bristol, the Director of ‘Salmon State’, a Juneau based environmental initiative to protect and sustain Alaska’s wild salmon that include some of the largest runs in the world. But all’s not well in their river and ocean home.
Working with Alaska Native people, commercial fishermen, river guides, and conservationists Salmon State aims to protect and restore these iconic fish. We talk with Tim about some of the challenges they face from mining, logging, offshore factory trawlers and of course climate change. We’ll also discuss the mixed signals Alaska’s getting on how the new Trump administration may deal with salmon. So, join us for a fascinating and informative episode.
Links & Resources
Salmon State: https://salmonstate.org/
Wild salmon power our economy, sustain our communities, underpin traditions, and fill our bellies.
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Building the solution-based citizen movement needed to protect our ocean, coasts and communities, both human and wild.
Blue Frontier on Substack: https://davidhelvarg.substack.com/
Inland Ocean Coalition:inlandoceancoalition.org
Building land-to-sea stewardship - the inland voice for ocean protection
Fluid Studios:fluidstudios.org
Thinking radically different about the collective good, our planet, & the future.
Protecting Our Shores: Richard Charter on the Historic Fight Against Offshore Drilling and Biden’s Legacy of Ocean Conservation
In this episode of Rising Tide the Ocean Podcast David Helvarg & Vicki N. Goldstein talk with longtime anti-offshore drilling activist Richard Charter about one of President Biden’s last acts in office, his January 6th ban on future offshore oil and gas drilling permits along the entire Atlantic and Pacific coasts of the U.S. in the eastern Gulf of Mexico and the northern Bering Sea off Alaska.
Richard, whose been a leader of citizen campaigns to protect offshore waters for 48 years discusses the legal strength of Biden’s declaration, the difficulties incoming president Donald Trump will have in trying to reverse these protections and why he thinks this is one of the greatest environmental victories since the establishment of our national parks. Check it out.
Links & Resources
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Building the solution-based citizen movement needed to protect our ocean, coasts and communities, both human and wild.
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Inland Ocean Coalition:inlandoceancoalition.org
Building land-to-sea stewardship - the inland voice for ocean protection
Fluid Studios:fluidstudios.org
Thinking radically different about the collective good, our planet, & the future.
In this end of year episode of the Rising Tide Ocean Podcast, David Helvarg presents a compilation of some of our leading ocean voices of 2024. The episode features commercial fisherman turned journalist Nick Rahaim discussing sperm whales in Alaska, artist Ray Troll sharing HIS fish-inspired art, Dr. Sarah Frias-Torres on her marine biology journey, author Shelby Van Pelt on her octopus book’s influence, Nancy Rabalais on the Gulf of Mexico's dead zone, Rear Admiral Andy Sugimoto on Coast Guard missions, Sherri Goodman on clean energy’s military advantages, Craig Foster on tracking underwater life, and Wendy Benchley on the revival of the Peter Benchley Ocean Awards. The episode highlights inspiring stories from 2024 and calls for donations to support ocean conservation efforts in 2025.
Links & Resources
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Building the solution-based citizen movement needed to protect our ocean, coasts and communities, both human and wild.
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Inland Ocean Coalition:inlandoceancoalition.org
Building land-to-sea stewardship - the inland voice for ocean protection
Fluid Studios:fluidstudios.org
Thinking radically different about the collective good, our planet, & the future.
Join hosts David Helvarg and Vicki Nichols Goldstein as they dive into the decades-long grassroots effort to transform 413 acres of the San Francisco Bay headland in Richmond, California, into the new Point Molate Park. Featured guest André Soto, a musician and activist, recounts the struggle against plans for a massive casino and high-end housing development. Discover the rich history of the land, from its origins as Ohlone land to its time as a naval fuel depot, and learn about the importance of community activism, environmental preservation, and political engagement in making this vision a reality. This episode of Rising Tide, the Ocean Podcast, celebrates a victorious moment for public education and conservation.
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Your gift of any size will help bring communities together to protect our coasts and ocean.
Blue Frontier:bluefront.org
Building the solution-based citizen movement needed to protect our ocean, coasts and communities, both human and wild.
Inland Ocean Coalition:inlandoceancoalition.org
Building land-to-sea stewardship - the inland voice for ocean protection
Fluid Studios:fluidstudios.org
Thinking radically different about the collective good, our planet, & the future.
Destiny Bristol Kushin and Zinaida Melovidov currently reside in the Unangan community of St. Paul Island, Alaska. Destiny is a 20 year old college student working towards her associates degree in environmental sciences. Zinaida is an elder who has lived on the island almost all her life. Her and her granddaughter Destiny are here to talk about the environmental changes they have seen in their lifetimes.
Links & Resources
Support the Rising Tide and donate to Blue Frontier: bluefront.app.neoncrm.com/forms/donation
Your gift of any size will help bring communities together to protect our coasts and ocean.
Blue Frontier:bluefront.org
Building the solution-based citizen movement needed to protect our ocean, coasts and communities, both human and wild.
Inland Ocean Coalition:inlandoceancoalition.org
Building land-to-sea stewardship - the inland voice for ocean protection
Fluid Studios:fluidstudios.org
Thinking radically different about the collective good, our planet, & the future.
In this episode of the Rising Tide Ocean podcast, Vicki Nichols Goldstein discusses the return of the Peter Benchley Ocean Awards with co-founder Wendy Benchley and Rising Tide co-host and co-founder David Helvarg. After a 7-year hiatus, the Peter Benchley Ocean Awards are set to return on May 8, 2025, at the National Aquarium in Baltimore, backed by the nationwide Aquarium Conservation Partnership (ACP).
Their conversation covers the origins of the awards, their impact on the ocean conservation community, and the excitement surrounding their return. Wendy and David share memorable moments from past awards and highlights the importance of recognizing leaders in various sectors including policy, science, grassroots activism, and sustainable business. And listeners are invited to nominate their own ocean champions at www.peterbenchleyoceanawards.org
David, Vicky, & Wendy also delve into Peter Benchley's legacy as a writer and his significant contribution to marine conservation.
Links & Resources
Support the Rising Tide and donate to Blue Frontier: bluefront.app.neoncrm.com/forms/donation
Your gift of any size will help bring communities together to protect our coasts and ocean.
Benchley Awards: peterbenchleyoceanawards.org/
In collaboration with the Aquarium Conservation Partnership (ACP) the Peter Benchley Ocean Awards will be held on May 8th, 2025 at the National Aquarium in Baltimore, Maryland.
Jaws by Peter Benchley: amazon.com/Jaws-Novel-Peter-Benchley/dp/1400064562/
A great white shark terrorizes the beautiful summer getaway of Amity Island, and a motley group of men take to the water to do battle with the beast.
The Girl of the Sea of Cortez: amazon.com/Girl-Sea-Cortez-Novel/dp/0345544137
On an island in the Gulf of California, an intrepid young woman named Paloma carries a special legacy from her father—a deep understanding of the sea and a sixth sense about the need to protect it.
Blue Frontier:bluefront.org
Building the solution-based citizen movement needed to protect our ocean, coasts and communities, both human and wild.
Inland Ocean Coalition:inlandoceancoalition.org
Building land-to-sea stewardship - the inland voice for ocean protection
Fluid Studios:fluidstudios.org
Thinking radically different about the collective good, our planet, & the future.
In our latest episode of Rising Tide the Ocean Podcast David heads to Alaska to interview Dune Lankard, a member of the Eagle Clan of the Eyak tribal nation based in Cordova Alaska, on Prince Williams Sound. Dune talks about his life as a commercial fisherman and his response to the 1989 Exxon-Valdez oil spill, the largest U.S. environmental disaster till that time.
He talks about his founding of the Native Conservancy and its work with 32 tribes across Alaska, including protecting over a million acres of land. They also talk about his kelp farming to restore the ocean, traditional food sources and provide indigenous people and fishermen a chance to be part of a new regenerative food industry in a time of climate disruption. Check out Dune’s spiritual, practical and innovative ideas on the new Rising Tide Ocean podcast.
Links & Resources
Native Conservancy: https://www.nativeconservancy.org/
Habitat restoration, indigenous food sovereignty, & cultural revitalization in Alaska
Blue Frontier:www.bluefront.org
Building the solution-based citizen movement needed to protect our ocean, coasts and communities, both human and wild.
Inland Ocean Coalition:www.inlandoceancoalition.org
Building land-to-sea stewardship - the inland voice for ocean protection
Fluid Studios:www.fluidstudios.org
Thinking radically different about the collective good, our planet, & the future.
In this episode of the Rising Tide Ocean podcast, hosts David Helvarg and Vicki Nichols Goldstein speak with Sherry Goodman, former Pentagon Deputy Undersecretary of Defense for Environmental Security, about her new book 'Threat Multiplier Climate Military Leadership in the Fight for Global Security.' Goodman elaborates on the intersection of climate change and national security, emphasizing the concept of climate as a 'threat multiplier' that exacerbates global instability. The conversation covers the evolution of military strategies to incorporate environmental stewardship, the impacts of climate change on military operations, and the importance of resilience and preparedness. Goodman also discusses the geopolitical tensions in the Arctic, the role of the U.S. Coast Guard, and the need for a climate-informed defense strategy. With an upcoming election, the discussion underscores the significance of leadership in addressing climate threats.
Links & Resources
Learn how to navigating ocean policies with Mark Spalding
https://bluefront.org/podcast/navigating-ocean-policies-with-mark-spalding-diving-into-the-impact-of-elections-on-our-waters/
Dive into the impact of elections on our waters.
Jim Hanson is Chief Editor for the Middle East Forum : https://www.meforum.org/jim-hanson
Author of several books including “Winning the Second Civil War - Without Firing a Shot” and “Cut Down the Black Flag - A Plan to Defeat ISIS”.
Rescue Warriors
https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780312628147/rescuewarriors
The United States Coast Guard has rescued over 1.1 million people.
Rear Admiral, Ann C. Phillips, US Navy (Ret.):https://www.maritime.dot.gov/office-administrator/key-personnel/rear-admiral-ann-c-phillips-us-navy-ret
As head of the Maritime Administration, Phillips advises and assists the Secretary of Transportation on commercial maritime matters.
Leon E. Panetta- Former Secretary of Defense: https://www.defense.gov/About/Biographies/Biography/article/602799/
23rd Secretary of Defense — led the agency and managed human intelligence and open source collection programs on behalf of the intelligence community.
The Center for Climate & Security:https://climateandsecurity.org/
The greater the impact of climate change, the greater our awareness of the security challenges it’s leaving in its wake.
Tyndall Air Force Base: https://www.tyndall.af.mil/
Admiral James Foggo III:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_G._Foggo_III
A retired United States Navy admiral who last served as commander of United States Naval Forces Europe-Africa and commander of Allied Joint Force Command Naples.
Former Secretary of Defense Mattis:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Mattis
United States secretary of defense from 2017 to 2019.
Michael Sfraga:https://www.state.gov/biographies/michael-sfraga/
AMBASSADOR-AT-LARGE FOR ARCTIC AFFAIRS
OFFICE OF THE AMBASSADOR-AT-LARGE FOR ARCTIC AFFAIRS
Secretary Lloyd Austin: tyndall.af.mil/About/Civil-Service-Employment/
Current United States Secretary of Defense.
Deputy Secretary of Defense - Kathleen H. Hicks: https://www.defense.gov/About/Deputy-Secretary-of-Defense/
She served as senior vice president and director of the international security program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
Threat Multiplier - Climate, Military Leadership, and the Fight for Global Security:https://islandpress.org/books/threat-multiplier
Blue Frontier:www.bluefront.org
Building the solution-based citizen movement needed to protect our ocean, coasts and communities, both human and wild.
Inland Ocean Coalition:www.inlandoceancoalition.org
Building land-to-sea stewardship - the inland voice for ocean protection
Fluid Studios:www.fluidstudios.org
Thinking radically different about the collective good, our planet, & the future.
In this episode of Rising Tide David and Natasha Benjamin delve into the fascinating resilience of Pacific salmon, creatures that have thrived in dynamic landscapes shaped by natural forces like volcanoes, earthquakes, and landslides with the University of Alaska’s Dr. Peter Westley. As the environment changes at unprecedented rates, including the rise of hatchery-supported fisheries, we discuss how these shifts impact salmon populations in places like Alaska and California. From dam removals and urbanization to climate change, salmon continue to adapt. Join us as we explore the complex web of factors shaping the future of these remarkable fish.
Additional Links & Resources
Sequoias of the Sea: https://www.sequoiasofthesea.com
Our Oceans: https://www.netflix.com/title/81139969
Discover the stories just below the surface of Earth's five oceans in this nature documentary series narrated and co-executive produced by Barack Obama.
Land of the Dena'ina people: https://www.anchorage.net/plan-your-trip/about-anchorage/the-denaina-people/
Anchorage is located within Dena’ina Ełnena, the traditional homelands of the Dena’ina Athabascan people. One of Alaska’s many distinct and diverse Indigenous groups, the Native people of Knik Arm are the K’enaht’ana, members of the Eydlughet (Eklutna) and K’enakatnu (Knik) tribes.
A River’s Rebirth: https://www.americanindianmagazine.org/story/klamath-river-dam-removals
Klamath Dam Removals Offer New Life for Salmon as well as California and Oregon Tribes
Blue Frontier: www.bluefront.org
Building the solution-based citizen movement needed to protect our ocean, coasts and communities, both human and wild.
Inland Ocean Coalition: www.inlandoceancoalition.org
Building land-to-sea stewardship - the inland voice for ocean protection
Fluid Studios: www.fluidstudios.org
Thinking radically different about the collective good, our planet, & the future.
Photo by Aniket Deole on Unsplash
On the latest episode of Rising Tide the Ocean Podcast, David Helvarg and Vicki Nichols Goldstein talk with Mark Spalding, President of the Ocean Foundation and an expert on international law and policy about the Ocean and the Elections. They discuss how starkly different the two 2024 presidential candidates are when it comes to marine conservation and climate issues. Also why, after the hottest summer in human history, there’s been so little talk about climate and the environment.
Vicki and David also look at the record of Kamala Harris and Donald Trump and pull some recent quotes from each of them about coastal resiliency, living reefs, windmills and whales and fear of sharks. So, with just weeks to go to November 5th remember, dolphins can’t vote for the ocean so you’ll have to.
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Ocean Foundation - https://oceanfdn.org/
The only community foundation for the ocean, dedicated to improving global ocean health, climate resilience, and the blue economy.
Blue Frontier: www.bluefront.org
Building the solution-based citizen movement needed to protect our ocean, coasts and communities, both human and wild.
Inland Ocean Coalition: www.inlandoceancoalition.org
Building land-to-sea stewardship - the inland voice for ocean protection
Fluid Studios: www.fluidstudios.org
Thinking radically different about the collective good, our planet, & the future.
On this episode of Rising Tide David Helvarg and Vicki Nichols Goldstein speak with Craig Foster, the Academy Award winning filmmaker of ‘My Octopus Teacher’ co-founder of the ‘Sea Change Project’ and the author of a new memoir – ‘Amphibious Soul.’
Craig discusses his daily underwater explorations of the ‘Great African Seaforest’ near his home and the importance of tracking skills in discovering life both within the kelp forest and on the shore. His encounters include not only octopuses and sharks, but seaweed eating ostriches and burrowing beach crabs. He also finds deep connections to our human past and our natural spirit. So, join us for some cold-water enlightenment.
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Sea Change Project: https://seachangeproject.com/
Amphibious Soul - Finding the Wild in a Tame World: https://www.harpercollins.com/products/amphibious-soul-craig-foster?variant=41096263598114
Blue Frontier: www.bluefront.org
Inland Ocean Coalition: www.inlandoceancoalition.org
Fluid Studios: www.fluidstudios.org
On this episode of Rising Tide the Ocean Podcast, David and Natasha Benjamin speak with Nick Rahaim, a former commercial fisherman, journalist, researcher, and now public spokesman for NOAA (though speaking on his own behalf).
We'll talk about his adventures from the shocks of squid fishing to confrontations between fishermen and whales in Alaska (including a shooting incident), to whale intelligence, whale depredation, and what it was like in Southwest Alaska when migrating salmon met "the blob". Join us for a fascinating episode!
Dive in to learn more.
Blue Frontier: www.bluefront.org
Inland Ocean Coalition: www.inlandoceancoalition.org
Fluid Studios: www.fluidstudios.org
On this episode of Rising Tide the Ocean Podcast, David & Vicki speak with Florida-based oceanographer and marine ecologist Dr. Sara Frias-Torres about her life and work, the tragic “death by a thousand cuts” of the Florida Keys coral reef tract, and the more hopeful recovery of the “Lord of the Rocks” the Goliath Grouper. Despite poaching and pollution, this massive, curious fish is making an impressive comeback from near extinction.
It’s essential for the ecosystem and inspiring for divers. Yet, it could be lost again if the Florida Fish & Wildlife Commission doesn’t listen to scientists like Dr. Frias-Torres, who say their protection must be continued.
Dive in to learn more.
Blue Frontier: www.bluefront.org
Inland Ocean Coalition: www.inlandoceancoalition.org
Fluid Studios: www.fluidstudios.org
On Sunday, July 21, Ocean Activist and Sea Shepherd Society founder Paul Watson was arrested in Greenland, a territory of Denmark, on an Interpol warrant issued by Japan. Japan claims he damaged one of their commercial whaling ships while protesting and helping to end Japanese whaling off Antarctica. France, where Watson now lives, has asked Denmark not to extradite him.
We're replaying our October 2022 interview with Watson so you can better understand his perspective on fighting for whales, against pirate fishing, and for the health of the Ocean. In this episode, we talked to Captain Paul Watson, founder of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, about his background fighting for beavers, seals, and whales and the breakup with Sea Shepherd over its purpose and direction. We also discussed the Paul Watson Foundation, his biocentric religion, phytoplankton, and the planet, and how his time at the siege of Wounded Knee taught him not to fear for the future.
If, after hearing from Paul, you'd like to also protest to the Danish Embassy or reach out to one of your members of Congress to add pressure on Denmark not to support Japan's political persecution of him, you can find out how in our program notes.
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THE #FREEPAULWATSON PETITION: https://www.paulwatsonfoundation.org/freepaulwatson/
Blue Frontier: www.bluefront.org
Inland Ocean Coalition: www.inlandoceancoalition.org
Fluid Studios: www.fluidstudios.org
On this episode of Rising Tide the Ocean Podcast we speak with world-famous Ketchikan Alaska-based artist and illustrator Ray Troll about his art – from Tee-shirts to wall murals - highlighting ocean life present and prehistoric (he summers in the ancient seas of Kansas). Combining the sensibilities of Gary Larson and Winslow Homer he can take your breath away with laughter and beauty. We discuss his 40-year retrospective art book – ‘Spawn Till You Die – The fin art of Ray Troll,” his upcoming documentary profile, his popular ‘Paleo Nerds Podcast’ and more. So, dive in.
Links and additional resources:
SPAWN TILL YOU DIE! A beautiful collection of Ray’s fishy, funny and inspiring work:
https://www.trollart.com/product/spawn-till-you-die-book/
Ratfish Wranglers: https://www.trollart.com/music/albums/
Paleo Nerds Podcast: https://www.paleonerds.com/
Ray’s Linkedin Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ray-troll-3ab82294/
Blue Frontier: www.bluefront.org
Inland Ocean Coalition: www.inlandoceancoalition.org
Fluid Studios: www.fluidstudios.org
In this rebroadcast of episode 13 of the Rising Tide Ocean Podcast, we pay tribute to the late Dr. Wallace J. Nichols, a distinguished marine biologist, passionate water lover, and dedicated turtle advocate. In this poignant conversation, Dr. Nichols opened his heart and shared the deeply personal story of losing his home in the devastating California Lightning Complex fires. We felt his profound loss through his words and admired his unwavering resilience.
Dr. Nichols also enlightened us with his profound knowledge about the 'Blue Mind'—the captivating science of how being in and around water transforms our brains. His insights revealed the powerful, healing connection we share with water and how it brings us peace, joy, and solace, even in the face of unimaginable adversity.
This episode is a testament to Dr. Nichols' enduring spirit and lifelong commitment to understanding and protecting our oceans. It reminds us of the beauty and fragility of our natural world and the incredible strength of the human spirit. As we reflect on this moving episode, we honor Dr. Nichols' contributions and the powerful message of hope and healing he shared with us all.
The Dr Wallace J Nichols Memorial Fund https://www.gofundme.com/f/Nichols-memorial-fund
J is creating useful words: https://www.wallacejnichols.org/
Blue Mind: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/wallace-j-nichols/blue-mind/9780316252119/
Blue Frontier: www.bluefront.org
Inland Ocean Coalition: www.inlandoceancoalition.org
Fluid Studios: www.fluidstudios.org
Photo by Max LaRochelle on Unsplash
On this episode of the Rising Tide Ocean Podcast, we dive deep with Curt Newport, an underwater salvage expert and author of the new book, 'Ready to Dive – Five Decades of Adventures in the Abyss.' Curt shares his incredible experiences using ROV robot submarines and advanced technologies around offshore oil platforms, fiber optic cable laying operations, military crash sites, and more.
Curt recounts some of the most challenging recovery missions, including the 1986 Challenger Disaster, where he helped recover the booster rocket that identified the crash's cause, the TWA 800 airliner crash, and Air India Flight 182, which was brought down by a terrorist bomb. Please note his discussion on body recovery operations is graphic and may disturb some listeners.
Discover the fascinating shift from hard hat divers to robotic recovery and the realities of working at sea. With a career spent on the frontlines of marine salvage, Curt Newport offers a unique and compelling perspective. Don't miss this episode of Rising Tide.
Ready To Dive: https://www.press.purdue.edu/9781612499666/
Plane Photo Credit: https://prelevicmilos.com/
Blue Frontier: www.bluefront.org
Inland Ocean Coalition: www.inlandoceancoalition.org
Fluid Studios: www.fluidstudios.org
Join us for an inspiring episode of the Rising Tide podcast as David Helvarg & Natasha Benjamin sit down with Bob Shavelson, a seasoned conservationist with over 35 years of experience in the environmental field. Growing up along the shores of Atlantic City, NJ, Bob's journey has taken him from the east coast to the rugged beauty of Homer, Alaska, where he has led significant efforts in environmental protection and advocacy.
In this 110th episode, Bob shares his rich history in conservation, from his early work with MassPIRG on toxic use reduction to his fight against the passage of NAFTA. We delve into his impactful tenure with the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, where he tested and regulated landfills, and his extensive legal work bringing citizen suits under the Clean Water Act. Bob also recounts his experiences as a Knauss Sea Grant Fellow on Capitol Hill, where he influenced environmental policy.
As the leader of the nonprofit organization Cook Inletkeeper since 1996 until his retirement 3 years ago, Bob has dedicated his career to protecting Alaska's vital waterways. He currently serves on the Board of the Prince William Sound Regional Citizens Advisory Council, overseeing oil tanker and terminal operations in the wake of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill.
Bob’s passion for conservation extends beyond his professional life. He actively volunteers for various community groups and now operates a water taxi on the stunning Kachemak Bay, where he lives with his wife and two young daughters.
Tune in to hear Bob's incredible stories and insights on environmental protection, community engagement, and the ongoing efforts to safeguard our natural world. This episode is a must-listen for anyone interested in conservation and the power of grassroots advocacy.
Links:
Inletkeeper: https://inletkeeper.org
Cook Inletkeeper on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@Inletkeeper
Blue Frontier: www.bluefront.org
Inland Ocean Coalition: www.inlandoceancoalition.org
Fluid Studios: www.fluidstudios.org
On this episode of the Rising Tide Ocean Podcast! Today, we sat down with Kiera Foti, the brand manager for Atlantic Sea Farms, the leading aquaculture kelp grower in the U.S. Based in Maine, this innovative company supplies edible kelp to stores like Whole Foods and numerous restaurants. They also produce branded products and sell kelp for cosmetics, fertilizers, and more. Discover how Atlantic Sea Farms collaborates with local lobstermen to cultivate kelp during their off-season and learn why Kiera refers to these carbon-absorbing algae as a "climate hero crop." Tune in to explore the fascinating world of sustainable kelp farming!
On this, our latest episode we talk with Kate Toniolo, U.S. Fish & Wildlife’s project leader for Delaware’s coastal refuges including the 10,000 acre Prime Hook, an area devastated by 2012’s Hurricane Sandy. Since then, she’s overseen restoration efforts that have seen the comeback of its sandy beaches, fresh and saltwater marshes and wildlife including threatened shorebirds, horseshoe crabs and their surrounding communities. We’ll talk about this and her past work in Hawaii, the remote Pacific Islands and elsewhere. So join us!
To celebrate Earth Day (which is 71% ocean) we’re speaking with Margaret Spring, Chief conservation and science officer for the world -famous Monterey Bay Aquarium, in California. Before coming to the aquarium Margaret was an environmental attorney and a leader at NOAA. Today she oversees the aquarium’s science policy work including on plastic pollution, its Seafood Watch sustainable seafood program and much of the deep ocean research conducted at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute in Moss Landing. So, let’s take a deep dive into what Margaret is up to.
'Rising Tide, the Ocean Podcast', is a refreshing, irreverent dive into the lives, work, and explorations of some of today's leading and diverse ocean voices. Each half hour episode co-hosted by David Helvarg and Vicki Nichols-Goldstein sails through lively discussions with our guests about marine life, culture, and critical issues affecting our rapidly changing seas. Informative, enlightening, and often humorous, it is an invaluable resource for anyone passionate about understanding, enjoying, and protecting our salty blue world.
In the latest Rising Tide we talk with our old friend Ana Blanco of the International Ocean Film Festival - coming to San Francisco April 12-14 - and Sarah Norenberg, the director of ‘Orca – Black & White Gold,’ one of the exciting documentaries playing there about how Russian activists saved 100 whales slated to be sold to Chinese aquarium parks, and instead got them released back into the wild. A true life ‘Free Willy’ film plus some good talk about ocean documentaries.
'Rising Tide, the Ocean Podcast', is a refreshing, irreverent dive into the lives, work, and explorations of some of today's leading and diverse ocean voices. Each half hour episode co-hosted by David Helvarg and Vicki Nichols-Goldstein sails through lively discussions with our guests about marine life, culture, and critical issues affecting our rapidly changing seas. Informative, enlightening, and often humorous, it is an invaluable resource for anyone passionate about understanding, enjoying, and protecting our salty blue world.
In the latest episode of Rising Tide, along with Blue News, David and Vicki talk with Dr. Nancy Rabalais from Louisiana State University. Nancy’s been called ‘the mother of dead zones’ in that her decades of research has helped define the Gulf of Mexico’s seasonal oxygen-depleted waters generated by polluted agricultural runoff from the Mississippi. These dead zones can grow to the size of New Jersey. She’s also studied the long-term impacts of the BP oil spill. Plus, we’ll hear about her encounter with an offshore alligator.
'Rising Tide, the Ocean Podcast', is a refreshing, irreverent dive into the lives, work, and explorations of some of today's leading and diverse ocean voices. Each half hour episode co-hosted by David Helvarg and Vicki Nichols-Goldstein sails through lively discussions with our guests about marine life, culture, and critical issues affecting our rapidly changing seas. Informative, enlightening, and often humorous, it is an invaluable resource for anyone passionate about understanding, enjoying, and protecting our salty blue world.
Director of ocean and fisheries economics at the University of British Columbia, our guest this week, Dr. Rashid Sumaila, has used economic modeling applied to global fisheries to come up with some dramatic and world changing conclusions. He talks with us about everything from how government subsidies threaten coastal seas to how living fish have ten time the climate value than they do dead and eaten or how marine protected areas act like a life insurance policy. So, perk up your ears for a fascinating conversation.
'Rising Tide, the Ocean Podcast', is a refreshing, irreverent dive into the lives, work, and explorations of some of today's leading and diverse ocean voices. Each half hour episode co-hosted by David Helvarg and Vicki Nichols-Goldstein sails through lively discussions with our guests about marine life, culture, and critical issues affecting our rapidly changing seas. Informative, enlightening, and often humorous, it is an invaluable resource for anyone passionate about understanding, enjoying, and protecting our salty blue world.
In this episode of Rising Tide Vicki and I speak with Shelby Van Pelt, author of the best-selling novel, ‘Remarkably Bright Creatures’ that tells the story of a growing, healing friendship between a widowed aquarium cleaner and a Giant Pacific Octopus with an attitude. Shelby talks about how Marcellus the bored, curmudgeonly cephalopod came into being, how her upbringing in the Pacific Northwest influenced her writing, her development as a novelist and sharing her fascination with octopuses and the ocean with her audience.
Rising Tide, the Ocean Podcast, is a compelling platform that delves into the vast realms of ocean and climate science, conservation, and exploration featuring experts, scientists, mariners and explorers. Each half hour episode navigates through insightful discussions on marine life, and the critical issues affecting our seas. Informative, educational and humorous it is a valuable resource for anyone passionate about understanding and preserving our ocean world.
In this episode of Rising Tide I speak with Coast Guard Rear Admiral Andy Sugimoto. He commands the 11th District that stretches from the California Oregon border to the waters off Peru, also Arizona, Nevada, Utah and a bit of Wyoming. A 39-year veteran of the service I wrote about in my book, ‘Rescue Warriors’, he’s done 12 years at sea, worked as a judge advocate general and coordinated U.S. intelligence with the CIA and others. We’ll talk about the many missions that take place in his area of responsibility including, of course, Search And Rescue. Also, the answer is yes, he did keep that promise he made to his Mom when he was 5.
Rising Tide, the Ocean Podcast, is a compelling platform that delves into the vast realms of ocean and climate science, conservation, and exploration featuring experts, scientists, mariners and explorers. Each half hour episode navigates through insightful discussions on marine life, and the critical issues affecting our seas. Informative, educational and humorous it is a valuable resource for anyone passionate about understanding and preserving our ocean world.
In our new episode we speak with Kathi George, Director of Cetacean Conservation for California’s Marine Mammal Center. As a founder of California Whale Rescue, Kathi has been involved in half a dozen at sea ‘disentanglements’ of gray, humpback and orca whales trapped by fishing gear as well as 50 sea lion rescues from fishing line and plastic debris. She tells us about how it’s done, the dangers (people have been injured and killed), precautions and rewards of whale wrangling, and what we can all do to protect whales.
Rising Tide, the Ocean Podcast, is a compelling platform that delves into the vast realms of ocean and climate science, conservation, and exploration featuring experts, scientists, mariners and explorers. Each half hour episode navigates through insightful discussions on marine life, and the critical issues affecting our seas. Informative, educational and humorous it is a valuable resource for anyone passionate about understanding and preserving our ocean world.
In a special edition of Rising Tide, David Helvarg, Vicki Nichols-Goldstein and Natasha Benjamin play excerpts of some of our past guests since RT first went live in 2020. Since then, we’ve attracted thousands of listeners like you and tens of thousands more on community radio stations across the nation. Listen to clips from 14 of our past guests including Ian Urbina, Sylvia Earle, Danni Washington, Ralph Nader and many others. Then go to our archives and listen to their full shows, help spread the word and remember! The only ocean resource not fully exploited is good story telling!
Rising Tide, the Ocean Podcast, is a compelling platform that delves into the vast realms of ocean and climate science, conservation, and exploration featuring experts, scientists, mariners and explorers. Each half hour episode navigates through insightful discussions on marine life, and the critical issues affecting our seas. Informative, educational and humorous it is a valuable resource for anyone passionate about understanding and preserving our ocean world.
In our latest episode we speak with world-renowned underwater photojournalist Brian Skerry. Brian talks about his early work in the bone-chilling waters of New England (where he continues documenting our changing seas), his early pictures for National Geographic starting with a pirate shipwreck. Also, some of his famous images including of a grey seal, a Right Whale greeting his assistant and a dead shark in a net. And, he recalls some close calls he’s had under ice and at sea. So, dive in with us and the amazing Brian Skerry.
Rising Tide, the Ocean Podcast, is a compelling platform that delves into the vast realms of ocean and climate science, conservation, and exploration featuring experts, scientists, mariners and explorers. Each half hour episode navigates through insightful discussions on marine life, and the critical issues affecting our seas. Informative, educational and humorous it is a valuable resource for anyone passionate about understanding and preserving our ocean world.
On our latest Rising Tide, we speak with paleo oceanographer Margaret Leinen, Director of the San Diego based Scripps Institution of Oceanography, one of the world’s leading research centers.
Leinen talks about its cutting-edge work on the ocean, atmosphere, climate, biology and more. Also, how their vessels monitor climate change in Antarctica and across our blue world and how the role of women in oceanography has also changed, in a better way, since as a grad student she was not allowed to do her ship-based research.
Rising Tide, the Ocean Podcast, is a compelling platform that delves into the vast realms of ocean and climate science, conservation, and exploration featuring experts, scientists, mariners and explorers. Each half hour episode navigates through insightful discussions on marine life, and the critical issues affecting our seas. Informative, educational and humorous it is a valuable resource for anyone passionate about understanding and preserving our ocean world.
About half the world’s seafood now comes from aquaculture, rather than wild caught fishing. Last year Blue Frontier made a short film on Ocean Era, a Hawaii-based company doing cutting edge research into sustainable mariculture. On Today’s Rising Tide we talk with its founder and CEO Neil Sims about their work with fin fish veggie diets, offshore pens, growing seaweed for food and fuel, climate-friendly diets and more. Join us for a fascinating look below the surface of what’s for dinner.
Rising Tide, the Ocean Podcast, is a compelling platform that delves into the vast realms of ocean and climate science, conservation, and exploration featuring experts, scientists, mariners and explorers. Each half hour episode navigates through insightful discussions on marine life, and the critical issues affecting our seas. Informative, educational and humorous it is a valuable resource for anyone passionate about understanding and preserving our ocean world.
In a Special Encore Episode of Rising Tide we revisit our June 2022 talk with the late Ocean Pioneer, Don Walsh, who passed away on Nov. 12 at the age of 92. In 1960 he and Jacque Picard became the first humans to reach the deepest part of the ocean – almost 7 miles down in the Challenger Deep. He talks about that journey and its near disaster, why ocean exploration didn’t go the way of the Space Race, and also gives his unvarnished take on deep-sea mining and other ocean issues. So here again, Don Walsh!
Rising Tide, the Ocean Podcast, is a compelling platform that delves into the vast realms of ocean and climate science, conservation, and exploration featuring experts, scientists, mariners and explorers. Each half hour episode navigates through insightful discussions on marine life, and the critical issues affecting our seas. Informative, educational and humorous it is a valuable resource for anyone passionate about understanding and preserving our ocean world.
On this episode of Rising Tide we speak with Marce Gutiérrez – Graudiņš, founder and Executive Director of Azul, the first grassroots organization working with Latinx people throughout the Americas to protect our blue ocean.
Based in California where she sits on the governing board of the California Coastal Conservancy, Marce, shocked by the Chevron refinery explosion in Richmond California in 2012, expanded Azul’s environmental justice work nationally and globally as you’ll learn as you dive into our latest conversation.
Rising Tide, the Ocean Podcast is co-hosted by Blue Frontier's David Helvarg and the Inland Ocean Coalition's Vicki Nichols-Goldstein. This podcast aims to give you information, inspiration and motivation (along with a few laughs) to help understand our ocean world and make it better. The ocean is rising, and so are we!
Learn more at bluefront.org
On this episode of Rising Tide we talk with surfers and filmmakers Lewis Arnold and Chris Nelson about their upcoming documentary "The Big Sea". This startling expose takes a look at the links between the manufacture of neoprene (chloroprene rubber), used in wetsuits and the toxic pollution and high-cancer risks faced by low-income communities adjacent to neoprene's main manufacturing plant in Louisiana's "cancer alley". Learn about the costs - and natural alternatives - to chloroprene in our latest show.
Rising Tide, the Ocean Podcast is co-hosted by Blue Frontier's David Helvarg and the Inland Ocean Coalition's Vicki Nichols-Goldstein. This podcast aims to give you information, inspiration and motivation (along with a few laughs) to help understand our ocean world and make it better. The ocean is rising, and so are we!
Learn more at bluefront.org
On this episode of Rising Tide we talk with Mikki McComb-Kobza of the Ocean First Institute. A long time diver and conservation biologist Mikki has studied sharks all around the world. She’ll talk about her discovery on how Hammerhead sharks see, how sharks are the wolves of the sea, why that’s a good thing and how she uses DNA sampling and measures white sharks using underwater lasers. And of course how ‘Jaws’ changed her life. Join us.
Rising Tide, the Ocean Podcast is co-hosted by Blue Frontier's David Helvarg and the Inland Ocean Coalition's Vicki Nichols-Goldstein. This podcast aims to give you information, inspiration and motivation (along with a few laughs) to help understand our ocean world and make it better. The ocean is rising, and so are we!
Learn more at bluefront.org
On this episode of Rising Tide we talk with Terry Tamminen, President and CEO of AltaSea in the Port of Los Angeles. The former Waterkeeper, head of California EPA and longtime Climate advisor tells us about this unique ‘Blue Economy Hub.’ Hear what AltaSea is doing to scale up Ocean Climate Solutions through innovation, education and sustainable business startups focused on clean energy and aquaculture, all of it taking place in the heart of the Western hemisphere’s largest port complex.
Rising Tide, the Ocean Podcast is co-hosted by Blue Frontier's David Helvarg and the Inland Ocean Coalition's Vicki Nichols-Goldstein. This podcast aims to give you information, inspiration and motivation (along with a few laughs) to help understand our ocean world and make it better. The ocean is rising, and so are we!
Learn more at bluefront.org
Today we’re having an in-depth conversation with best-selling author and ocean advocate Susan Casey about her latest book, ‘The Underworld, Journeys to the Depths of the Ocean.’ She talks about the role of the deep oceans in sustaining life on earth, the ‘Star Wars Bar Scene’ population of strange and incredible animals living miles below the surface, how people like her have and can travel to the black bone-crushing abyss and find wonder and also the threat of deep sea mining. Join us for this fascinating journey.
Rising Tide, the Ocean Podcast is co-hosted by Blue Frontier's David Helvarg and the Inland Ocean Coalition's Vicki Nichols-Goldstein. This podcast aims to give you information, inspiration and motivation (along with a few laughs) to help understand our ocean world and make it better. The ocean is rising, and so are we!
Learn more at bluefront.org
Our overheated seas off Florida have now topped 101 degrees, the kind of record you don’t want to claim. Today we’re talking with Alex Neufeld of the Coral Restoration Foundation, a major group of scientists and technicians who’ve been forced to move their coral grow nurseries from the waters of the Florida Keys to onshore tanks to prevent their bleaching and dying. We’ll discuss how they’re doing this and what it means for the future of coral reefs and the efforts to protect them.
Rising Tide, the Ocean Podcast is co-hosted by Blue Frontier's David Helvarg and the Inland Ocean Coalition's Vicki Nichols-Goldstein. This podcast aims to give you information, inspiration and motivation (along with a few laughs) to help understand our ocean world and make it better. The ocean is rising, and so are we!
Learn more at bluefront.org
Today we’re talking with Dr. Alex Brylske a veteran dive industry professional, coral reef biologist and retired professor at the College of the Florida Keys. We discuss his book, ‘Beneath The Blue Planet’ that provides an in-depth dive into all things ocean. We’ll also get his unique perspective on the changing nature of both our endangered Ocean and the role the dive industry can and must play in protecting it. Plus we’ll find out what his coral students have to say that most excites him.
Rising Tide, the Ocean Podcast is co-hosted by Blue Frontier's David Helvarg and the Inland Ocean Coalition's Vicki Nichols-Goldstein. This podcast aims to give you information, inspiration and motivation (along with a few laughs) to help understand our ocean world and make it better. The ocean is rising, and so are we!
Learn more at bluefront.org
Today we speak with Marc Yaggi, Chief Executive Officer of the Waterkeeper Alliance, the world’s largest non-profit organization dedicated to the protection and preservation of clean water. We’ll talk about his and his organization’s history going back to exploring and protecting watersheds including the one that provides New York City with its drinking water. We’ll review some of this boat-based group’s victories from Atlanta to coastal Senegal and some of the ongoing challenges we all face from Supreme Court rulings to pollutants in our water and our blood. Still, be prepared for some hope.
Rising Tide, the Ocean Podcast is co-hosted by Blue Frontier's David Helvarg and the Inland Ocean Coalition's Vicki Nichols-Goldstein. This podcast aims to give you information, inspiration and motivation (along with a few laughs) to help understand our ocean world and make it better. The ocean is rising, and so are we!
Learn more at bluefront.org
In this episode of Rising Tide we talk with Submersible engineer and marine robotics expert Tony Lawson about the challenges faced by the deep submersibles community. He describes the challenges and wonders of building vessels designed to explore the ocean depths, their classing, industry safety record and ongoing innovations. He also speaks about his personal reaction to the “predictable” tragedy of the Titan, lost while diving on the Titanic. This conversation is guaranteed to teach you something about the deep ocean and the engineering that gets us there.
Rising Tide, the Ocean Podcast is co-hosted by Blue Frontier's David Helvarg and the Inland Ocean Coalition's Vicki Nichols-Goldstein. This podcast aims to give you information, inspiration and motivation (along with a few laughs) to help understand our ocean world and make it better. The ocean is rising, and so are we!
Learn more at bluefront.org
Today we’re stoked to be speaking with Kassia Meador a long time professional surfer known for her ecstatic longboard style and multiple passions in, on and near the water. Natasha Benjamin and I engage with her about her earliest beach and saltwater memories with her surfer dad, changes she’s seen in the ocean, her creation of the first wetsuit brand by women for women and what links surfing and kelp with creation and community. So join us in the flow.
Rising Tide, the Ocean Podcast is co-hosted by Blue Frontier's David Helvarg and the Inland Ocean Coalition's Vicki Nichols-Goldstein. This podcast aims to give you information, inspiration and motivation (along with a few laughs) to help understand our ocean world and make it better. The ocean is rising, and so are we!
Learn more at bluefront.org
Today we speak with Rich German –photographer, paddle boarder, podcaster and founder of Project O. Along with thousands of hours stand up paddling with Orcas, Blue whales, dolphins and seals, Rich has been instrumental in creating blue city standards for coastal communities while also working on the establishment of a whale sanctuary in Norway plus seeking to protect a Beluga spy whale presently swimming off of Sweden. And yes, it’s as strange as it sounds.
Rising Tide, the Ocean Podcast is co-hosted by Blue Frontier's David Helvarg and the Inland Ocean Coalition's Vicki Nichols-Goldstein. This podcast aims to give you information, inspiration and motivation (along with a few laughs) to help understand our ocean world and make it better. The ocean is rising, and so are we!
Learn more at bluefront.org
On today’s show we speak with Rep. Jared Huffman (D – CA) whose congressional district runs up California’s coast from the Golden Gate Bridge to the Oregon border.
A long time ocean champion he talks about laws he’s helped pass to protect salmon and kelp forests, the removal of dams on the Klamath river and how offshore floating wind farms could be the greatest boom to the area’s economy since logging but with better outcomes. He also talks about what’s unique on “the redwood coast.” Join us in a hopeful conversation.
Rising Tide, the Ocean Podcast is co-hosted by Blue Frontier's David Helvarg and the Inland Ocean Coalition's Vicki Nichols-Goldstein. This podcast aims to give you information, inspiration and motivation (along with a few laughs) to help understand our ocean world and make it better. The ocean is rising, and so are we!
Learn more at bluefront.org
On today’s show David speaks with Rob Moir, sailor, scientist and founder of the Cambridge Massachusetts based Ocean River Institute. Rob talks about his experiences as a sailor, his first encounter with a right whale and how it changed his life, and the work and meaning of Ocean River. We discuss ocean planning, the fate of whales and how what you put on your lawn could impact marine wildlife. He also explains how he has fun working with politicians to make them into ocean champions.
Rising Tide, the Ocean Podcast is co-hosted by Blue Frontier's David Helvarg and the Inland Ocean Coalition's Vicki Nichols-Goldstein. This podcast aims to give you information, inspiration and motivation (along with a few laughs) to help understand our ocean world and make it better. The ocean is rising, and so are we!
Learn more at bluefront.org
Today we’re talking with Chad Nelsen, CEO of the Surfrider Foundation. Raised by the beach in southern California, Chad was a lifeguard and student of coastal science before connecting with Surfrider, the grassroots organization committed to protecting the world’s ocean, waves and beaches. With more than 50,000 members including surfers and other ocean lovers and campaigns ranging from protecting surf breaks to fighting plastic pollution, climate disruption and working for diversity and equity in the sport, Chad has faith that bottom-up change can still turn the tide.
Rising Tide, the Ocean Podcast is co-hosted by Blue Frontier's David Helvarg and the Inland Ocean Coalition's Vicki Nichols-Goldstein. This podcast aims to give you information, inspiration and motivation (along with a few laughs) to help understand our ocean world and make it better. The ocean is rising, and so are we!
Learn more at bluefront.org
Today we’re talking with Natasha Benjamin: Filmmaker, marine scientist, diver, surfer, Communications Director for Marine Applied Research & Exploration, and, oh yes, Associate Director at Blue Frontier. Natasha is now working on a documentary film project – Sequoias of the Sea - covering the collapse of 95% of northern California’s Kelp Forest and its impact on a fishing community where the fishermen, divers, scientists and environmentalists have all begun to collaborate to try and restore the kelp forest that they all value and depend on. Dive in with us.
Rising Tide, the Ocean Podcast is co-hosted by Blue Frontier's David Helvarg and the Inland Ocean Coalition's Vicki Nichols-Goldstein. This podcast aims to give you information, inspiration and motivation (along with a few laughs) to help understand our ocean world and make it better. The ocean is rising, and so are we!
Learn more at bluefront.org
Join us as we talk with Greenpeace Ocean Campaign Director John
Hocevar. John, who has piloted small submarines in the Arctic and
Antarctic, talks about the new and historic High Seas Treaty that
some 190 nations agreed to in March.
It represents a 20-year battle to protect two thirds of the ocean or
basically half the planet by allowing for the establishment of vast
marine protected areas for ocean wildlife and habitats including
the deep ocean.
So take a dive with us into one of the great blue victories of our time.
Rising Tide, the Ocean Podcast is co-hosted by Blue Frontier's David Helvarg and the Inland Ocean Coalition's Vicki Nichols-Goldstein. This podcast aims to give you information, inspiration and motivation (along with a few laughs) to help understand our ocean world and make it better. The ocean is rising, and so are we!
Learn more at bluefront.org
In our next episode we speak with Andrew Hebard, president and CEO of Nature’s
Crops International about how plant products rich in omega oils can improve your body,
health and mind without damaging the ocean.
Rising Tide, the Ocean Podcast is co-hosted by Blue Frontier's David Helvarg and the Inland Ocean Coalition's Vicki Nichols-Goldstein. This podcast aims to give you information, inspiration and motivation (along with a few laughs) to help understand our ocean world and make it better. The ocean is rising, and so are we!
Learn more at bluefront.org
This week we talk with Linda Behnken, Executive Director of the Alaska Longline Fishermen’s Association. Linda has fished commercially for over 40 years. An outspoken advocate for her state’s fishing communities and the marine environment they depend on, she has led fights against industrial scale trawl net fishing and for climate change action and adaptation. We’ll discuss safety at sea, the threat of gold mining and widespread logging and her many other efforts to turn the tide. This episode will really hook you.
Rising Tide, the Ocean Podcast is co-hosted by Blue Frontier's David Helvarg and the Inland Ocean Coalition's Vicki Nichols-Goldstein. This podcast aims to give you information, inspiration and motivation (along with a few laughs) to help understand our ocean world and make it better. The ocean is rising, and so are we!
Learn more at bluefront.org
This week we talk with Kramer Wimberley lead dive instructor and board member of DWP – Diving With a Purpose. Through citizen science DWP is a leading force in identifying, surveying and documenting shipwrecks from the Atlantic Slave Trade and honoring the people who were lost to it. Kramer, along with his underwater archeology work also leads DWP’s youth program restoring coral reefs in Florida, bringing a new generation of African American and other young divers into the struggle for a better future for humanity and the sea.
Rising Tide, the Ocean Podcast is co-hosted by Blue Frontier's David Helvarg and the Inland Ocean Coalition's Vicki Nichols-Goldstein. This podcast aims to give you information, inspiration and motivation (along with a few laughs) to help understand our ocean world and make it better. The ocean is rising, and so are we!
Learn more at bluefront.org
This week we talk with David Shiffman, a marine biologist with Arizona State University, and fun science communicator who speaks with wit and knowledge about sharks and the ocean, their evolution, strange and varied reproductive strategies and the politics of conserving them. Hearing from a shark expert like Shiffman is its own kind of thrill. So dive in with us on this episode of the Rising Tide Ocean podcast.
Rising Tide, the Ocean Podcast is co-hosted by Blue Frontier's David Helvarg and the Inland Ocean Coalition's Vicki Nichols-Goldstein. This podcast aims to give you information, inspiration and motivation (along with a few laughs) to help understand our ocean world and make it better. The ocean is rising, and so are we!
Learn more at bluefront.org
This week we talk with Francis Lean Bu, the Executive Director of the Roatan Marine Park one of the jewels of the Mesoamerican reef off the north coast of Honduras. Along with the wonders of her island’s reef life we also learn about ongoing battles with stony coral tissue disease (divers applying antibiotics to the living reef), a training program to hunt lionfish (first you shoot the coconut) and the challenges of balancing tourist development, climate change and hope.
Rising Tide, the Ocean Podcast is co-hosted by Blue Frontier's David Helvarg and the Inland Ocean Coalition's Vicki Nichols-Goldstein. This podcast aims to give you information, inspiration and motivation (along with a few laughs) to help understand our ocean world and make it better. The ocean is rising, and so are we!
Learn more at bluefront.org
This week we talk with Tre Packard: art curator, diver and Executive Director of the PangaeSeed Foundation that includes the ‘Sea Walls – Artists for the Oceans’ program.
‘Sea Walls’ has involved hundreds of artists creating over 500 large ocean-themed murals in 19 nations. Tre talks about the role of art in marine conservation, their first mural project and its impact on a Mexican island (and on the artists who swam with whale sharks), also more challenging projects including in the ‘Polar Bear Capital of the World.’ So join us for a fascinating discussion.
Rising Tide, the Ocean Podcast is co-hosted by Blue Frontier's David Helvarg and the Inland Ocean Coalition's Vicki Nichols-Goldstein. This podcast aims to give you information, inspiration and motivation (along with a few laughs) to help understand our ocean world and make it better. The ocean is rising, and so are we!
Learn more at bluefront.org
This week on Rising Tide I talk with Nick Landon, a young mariner who decided to turn his love for the ocean into a career. Nick tells us about his four years at the California Maritime Academy, his day-to-day activities as a third mate aboard an oil tanker, the ship’s time in Dry Dock in the Bahamas and more. We discuss environmental changes taking place in the fleet, marine wildlife he’s spotted and what he tells high school students about the advantages of a life at sea.
Rising Tide, the Ocean Podcast is co-hosted by Blue Frontier's David Helvarg and the Inland Ocean Coalition's Vicki Nichols-Goldstein. This podcast aims to give you information, inspiration and motivation (along with a few laughs) to help understand our ocean world and make it better. The ocean is rising, and so are we!
Learn more at bluefront.org
A co-founder and Executive Director of the North American Marine Environment Protection Association (NAMEPA), Carleen Lyden Walker talks to us about the challenges of transitioning the world’s shipping industry into an ocean and climate friendly sector of the blue economy.
Among key issues we discuss are public education about ports and shipping, decarbonizing the global fleet of 90,000 plus large vessels, dealing with whale strikes and offshore pollution and what it means to be a woman leader in a historically male industry.
Rising Tide, the Ocean Podcast is co-hosted by Blue Frontier's David Helvarg and the Inland Ocean Coalition's Vicki Nichols-Goldstein. This podcast aims to give you information, inspiration and motivation (along with a few laughs) to help understand our ocean world and make it better. The ocean is rising, and so are we!
Learn more at bluefront.org
Undersecretary of Commerce Dr. Rick Spinrad, Administrator of the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) talks with us about his responsibilities from the surface of the sun to the bottom of the sea. He discusses NOAA’s varied resources and people working for our public seas plus ongoing challenges including sea level rise, overfishing and ocean acidification. We also discuss its billions in new Infrastructure and climate funding and how he came out of retirement for “the best job in the world.”
Rising Tide, the Ocean Podcast is co-hosted by Blue Frontier's David Helvarg and the Inland Ocean Coalition's Vicki Nichols-Goldstein. This podcast aims to give you information, inspiration and motivation (along with a few laughs) to help understand our ocean world and make it better. The ocean is rising, and so are we!
Learn more at bluefront.org
Henry David Thoreau asked the question in an 1849 book. Actually, fish are more likely to hum and croak according to Dr. Carrie Wall, NOAA Fisheries Acoustic Archivist at the University of Colorado.
Carrie not only studies and collects the sounds of fish - she knows how to imitate them. In our version of NPR’s ‘Science Friday’ we learn about ocean acoustics, human caused ocean noise and how there are still some areas of ocean quiet. So enjoy our conversation with Dr. Wall.
Rising Tide, the Ocean Podcast is co-hosted by Blue Frontier's David Helvarg and the Inland Ocean Coalition's Vicki Nichols-Goldstein. This podcast aims to give you information, inspiration and motivation (along with a few laughs) to help understand our ocean world and make it better. The ocean is rising, and so are we!
Learn more at bluefront.org
In this episode we talk with Alexandra Morton, who’s been called the Jane Goodall of Canada. After spending years studying the language of resident Orcas along a remote stretch of British Columbia she turned her attention to the salmon farms that displaced the Orcas and harmed the wild salmon they feed on.
Morton discusses Orcas, her decades long fight with the industry and ultimately how she –with Indigenous first nations - helped shut down the industrial fish farms. Plus she imitates what Orcas sound like when they’re talking.
Rising Tide, the Ocean Podcast is co-hosted by Blue Frontier's David Helvarg and the Inland Ocean Coalition's Vicki Nichols-Goldstein. This podcast aims to give you information, inspiration and motivation (along with a few laughs) to help understand our ocean world and make it better. The ocean is rising, and so are we!
Learn more at bluefront.org
In this episode we talk to leading ocean warrior Captain Paul Watson, founder of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society. We talk about his background fighting for beavers, seals and whales and his recent break up with Sea Shepherd over its purpose and direction.
We also discuss his new Paul Watson Foundation, his biocentric religion, phytoplankton and the planet and how his time at the siege of Wounded Knee taught him not to fear for the future. Join us for this very special episode.
Rising Tide, the Ocean Podcast is co-hosted by Blue Frontier's David Helvarg and the Inland Ocean Coalition's Vicki Nichols-Goldstein. This podcast aims to give you information, inspiration and motivation (along with a few laughs) to help understand our ocean world and make it better. The ocean is rising, and so are we!
Learn more at bluefront.org
In this episode we reconnect with our friend 'Sherman’s Lagoon' creator Jim Toomey to talk about his new book, ‘Family Afloat – Two Years Sailing the World with Two Kids and Two Captains.’ Along with a bit of history of his popular shark-based cartoon strip, Jim shares some of the rollicking, inspiring and even frightening moments he and his family (and two hamsters) experienced sailing the Med, the Caribbean and crossing the Atlantic. It’s a whale of a tale that of course includes a whale encounter.
Rising Tide, the Ocean Podcast is co-hosted by Blue Frontier's David Helvarg and the Inland Ocean Coalition's Vicki Nichols-Goldstein. This podcast aims to give you information, inspiration and motivation (along with a few laughs) to help understand our ocean world and make it better. The ocean is rising, and so are we!
Learn more at bluefront.org
In this episode David talks with renowned marine scientist Dr. Nancy Knowlton about her background, her work on coral reefs and her launching of a multi-disciplinary, solution oriented marine program at Scripps. She also talks about her expanding work on ocean and earth optimism at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History and why that’s not an oxymoron but a starting point. This and more on restoration and realism makes for an engaging and, dare we say, hopeful segment.
Rising Tide, the Ocean Podcast is co-hosted by Blue Frontier's David Helvarg and the Inland Ocean Coalition's Vicki Nichols-Goldstein. This podcast aims to give you information, inspiration and motivation (along with a few laughs) to help understand our ocean world and make it better. The ocean is rising, and so are we!
Learn more at bluefront.org
In this episode we have a hopeful but challenging talk with Linda Hunter, founder and director of the Wild Oyster Project that’s working to restore San Francisco Bay’s once abundant oyster reefs. Linda tells us why oysters are “working class heroes” keeping estuary ecosystems healthy. We discuss the major fish-killing Algal Bloom now occurring in the bay and how her oysters are faring, plus discuss the community volunteers working to restore SF bay oysters.
Rising Tide, the Ocean Podcast is co-hosted by Blue Frontier's David Helvarg and the Inland Ocean Coalition's Vicki Nichols-Goldstein. This podcast aims to give you information, inspiration and motivation (along with a few laughs) to help understand our ocean world and make it better. The ocean is rising, and so are we!
Learn more at bluefront.org
In our conversation with artist Isabella Kirkland we talk about her detailed paintings of biodiversity both terrestrial and ocean-based and the exacting research that goes into her beautiful works. The late biologist and author EO Wilson called her works “classic in the original and best sense of the word.” Join us in a lively informative talk as we discuss nudibranchs large and small, what inspired her to do a portrait of squat lobsters and why she finds shrimp hard to paint.
Rising Tide, the Ocean Podcast is co-hosted by Blue Frontier's David Helvarg and the Inland Ocean Coalition's Vicki Nichols-Goldstein. This podcast aims to give you information, inspiration and motivation (along with a few laughs) to help understand our ocean world and make it better. The ocean is rising, and so are we!
Learn more at bluefront.org
In this episode we talk with Dr. Ian Ralby founder and CEO of I.R. Consilium, a firm that consults with law-enforcement and navies around the world on maritime law and security issues.
As a logical follow up to our last talk with Undersecretary of State Monica Medina we’ll discuss Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated fishing and strategies to defeat it, piracy and armed security at sea, oil dumping, seaborne criminal intelligence and the growing role of China in the maritime sphere.
Rising Tide, the Ocean Podcast is co-hosted by Blue Frontier's David Helvarg and the Inland Ocean Coalition's Vicki Nichols-Goldstein. This podcast aims to give you information, inspiration and motivation (along with a few laughs) to help understand our ocean world and make it better. The ocean is rising, and so are we!
Learn more at bluefront.org
This week we’re honored to be speaking with the U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs Monica Medina. Before winning Senate confirmation to this position last year Assistant Secretary Medina, a veteran of Georgetown, Columbia Law School and the U.S. Army helped link ocean policy and security issues as a special assistant to the Secretary of Defense, General counsel at NOAA, a Senior Counsel to a U.S. Senator, a professor, environmental news publisher even an ocean policy director for National Geographic among other jobs.
Rising Tide, the Ocean Podcast is co-hosted by Blue Frontier's David Helvarg and the Inland Ocean Coalition's Vicki Nichols-Goldstein. This podcast aims to give you information, inspiration and motivation (along with a few laughs) to help understand our ocean world and make it better. The ocean is rising, and so are we!
Learn more at bluefront.org
In our latest episode David talks with marine ecologist, acclaimed ocean and wildlife author and MacArthur “genius” fellow Carl Safina about his earliest connections with the sea, also his life’s journey, conservation work and writing methods. You’ll learn how defending tuna evolved into his seminal book, ‘Song for the Blue Ocean,’ and his connections to eels, owls and his recent best seller, ‘Becoming Wild – How animal cultures raise families, create beauty and achieve peace.’
Rising Tide, the Ocean Podcast is co-hosted by Blue Frontier's David Helvarg and the Inland Ocean Coalition's Vicki Nichols-Goldstein. This podcast aims to give you information, inspiration and motivation (along with a few laughs) to help understand our ocean world and make it better. The ocean is rising, and so are we!
Learn more at bluefront.org
In this episode we talk with Farah Obaidullah about her life traveling our ocean planet, her years as Senior Oceans Campaigner with Greenpeace and her founding of Women4Oceans bringing gender justice and equity to the ocean community. We also discuss her work as a leading figure in the global fight for a moratorium on deep-sea mining and how that battle’s proceeding. So, lots to cover and well worth the listen.
Rising Tide, the Ocean Podcast is co-hosted by Blue Frontier's David Helvarg and the Inland Ocean Coalition's Vicki Nichols-Goldstein. This podcast aims to give you information, inspiration and motivation (along with a few laughs) to help understand our ocean world and make it better. The ocean is rising, and so are we!
Learn more at bluefront.org
In our latest episode we talk with Ocean and Polar Explorer Don Walsh. A Retired Navy Submariner, as a young Captain he and Jacque Picard became the first 2 humans to reach the deepest part of the ocean – 7 miles down in the Challenger Deep aboard the bathyscaphe Trieste.
He talks about their journey and a near disaster, why ocean exploration didn’t go on to compete with the space race and today’s new generation of deep ocean explorers.
Don also gives his unvarnished take on proposed deep-sea mining and the failure of the UN International Seabed Authority to do its job protecting the ocean depths.
Rising Tide, the Ocean Podcast is co-hosted by Blue Frontier's David Helvarg and the Inland Ocean Coalition's Vicki Nichols-Goldstein. This podcast aims to give you information, inspiration and motivation (along with a few laughs) to help understand our ocean world and make it better. The ocean is rising, and so are we!
Learn more at bluefront.org
In our latest episode we talk with Peter Fiekowsky, an MIT trained physicist and engineer who has worked at NASA, on Artificial Intelligence, as an inventor, entrepreneur and more. He’s now authored, ‘Climate Restoration – The only future that will sustain the human race.”
We discuss 4 key ideals and technologies he believes can help bring down excess CO2 in the atmosphere generated by the burning fossil fuel and other human activities. Among his more controversial ideas is seeding the ocean with iron pellets. Enjoy this lively and engaging conversation.
Rising Tide, the Ocean Podcast is co-hosted by Blue Frontier's David Helvarg and the Inland Ocean Coalition's Vicki Nichols-Goldstein. This podcast aims to give you information, inspiration and motivation (along with a few laughs) to help understand our ocean world and make it better. The ocean is rising, and so are we!
Learn more at bluefront.org
We speak with Fabien Cousteau, third generation ocean explorer and documentary producer. Along with talking about his life and adventures – including in a one-man sub disguised as a white shark - we learn about his newest project. Having lived 31 days underwater doing science and education in an aging habitat off Key Largo, he’s now working to build a larger “international space station for the ocean,” to be located in the Caribbean and carry out the next generation of marine science and conservation.
Rising Tide, the Ocean Podcast is co-hosted by Blue Frontier's David Helvarg and the Inland Ocean Coalition's Vicki Nichols-Goldstein. This podcast aims to give you information, inspiration and motivation (along with a few laughs) to help understand our ocean world and make it better. The ocean is rising, and so are we!
Learn more at bluefront.org
In this episode we speak with Francesca Koe, Board Member of the Greater Farallones Association of California. She’ll talk about how she became a dive instructor and free diver and her love of the kelp forest that got her nicknamed ‘Kelp princess.’ Unfortunately kelp is the new coral in terms of being endangered. With 95 percent of northern California’s kelp forest gone Francesca is now playing a central role in efforts to restore it, and shares the who, what, when and why with us.
Rising Tide, the Ocean Podcast is co-hosted by Blue Frontier's David Helvarg and the Inland Ocean Coalition's Vicki Nichols-Goldstein. This podcast aims to give you information, inspiration and motivation (along with a few laughs) to help understand our ocean world and make it better. The ocean is rising, and so are we!
Learn more at bluefront.org
We hear from activist Hilton Kelley. Raised in the segregated west side African-American community of Port Arthur Texas, the most polluted coastal town in America, he went on to join the Navy and become a successful actor. But at 39 he returned to help restore his community and fight pollution becoming a leading environmental warrior, winning battles around air pollution, PCB incineration and the Keystone pipeline. Along with recalling oil spills he recites a poem that was key to his success, ‘My True History.’
Rising Tide, the Ocean Podcast is co-hosted by Blue Frontier's David Helvarg and the Inland Ocean Coalition's Vicki Nichols-Goldstein. This podcast aims to give you information, inspiration and motivation (along with a few laughs) to help understand our ocean world and make it better. The ocean is rising, and so are we!
Learn more at bluefront.org
We talk with Marine evolutionary biologist Les Kaufman about his decades of study of ocean and freshwater fish, coral reefs, human behavior and natural systems and the possibility of restoration and hope for heavily polluted and climate-impacted ecosystems from Florida’s coral reefs to Africa’s massive Lake Victoria. Plus he used to teach our Blue Frontier Associate Director Natasha Benjamin who joins us for this conversation.
Rising Tide, the Ocean Podcast is co-hosted by Blue Frontier's David Helvarg and the Inland Ocean Coalition's Vicki Nichols-Goldstein. This podcast aims to give you information, inspiration and motivation (along with a few laughs) to help understand our ocean world and make it better. The ocean is rising, and so are we!
Learn more at bluefront.org
We talk with Wahine Project director Dionne Ybarra who, raised in an inland Mexican American Farm worker family, discovered surfing at 38. Stoked but concerned the sport did not have a lot of people like her, she launched the Wahine – surfer girl – Project that has taught thousands of young girls - and some boys and adults - from Monterey to Mexico to Gaza and beyond how to overcome their fears and surf for themselves and the Ocean.
Rising Tide, the Ocean Podcast is co-hosted by Blue Frontier's David Helvarg and the Inland Ocean Coalition's Vicki Nichols-Goldstein. This podcast aims to give you information, inspiration and motivation (along with a few laughs) to help understand our ocean world and make it better. The ocean is rising, and so are we!
Learn more at bluefront.org
We talk with world-renowned science fiction author Kim Stanley Robinson about his life and his novels, including his last, ‘The Ministry for the Future’ that’s been widely hailed as both a riveting story and a plan for how we survive and transcend the climate emergency. We also talk about Ocean themes in his works from New York to California to light years beyond earth, plus his bodysurfing and his non-fiction memoir of years hiking the Sierras.
Rising Tide, the Ocean Podcast is co-hosted by Blue Frontier's David Helvarg and the Inland Ocean Coalition's Vicki Nichols-Goldstein. This podcast aims to give you information, inspiration and motivation (along with a few laughs) to help understand our ocean world and make it better. The ocean is rising, and so are we!
Learn more at bluefront.org
David and Vicki are joined by Wendy Benchley and Margo Pellegrino, both previous podcast guests and both fellow veterans of Blue Frontier, the ocean conservation group that works to give people who care about the Ocean the tools needed to protect their communities both human and wild.
The four discuss two decades of Blue Vision Summits, Benchley awards, ocean adventures, marches, celebrations and mobilizations, including to link Ocean and climate solutions. And of course many media projects like Rising Tide. Listen and Enjoy. It’s a birthday party.
Rising Tide, the Ocean Podcast is co-hosted by Blue Frontier's David Helvarg and the Inland Ocean Coalition's Vicki Nichols-Goldstein. This podcast aims to give you information, inspiration and motivation (along with a few laughs) to help understand our ocean world and make it better. The ocean is rising, and so are we!
Learn more at bluefront.org
For our 50th episode we talk with Dr. Craig Downs, the Hawaiian scientist who discovered and popularized the threat petrochemical-based sunscreens and other skin care products pose to coral reefs, fish and additional marine wildlife. Along with the role of Oreo cookies in his discovery, he talks about the ‘zombification' of reefs and fish exposed to chemicals in sunscreens, what’s being done to address the issue and how you can protect yourself from the sun without killing the Ocean.
Rising Tide, the Ocean Podcast is co-hosted by Blue Frontier's David Helvarg and the Inland Ocean Coalition's Vicki Nichols-Goldstein. This podcast aims to give you information, inspiration and motivation (along with a few laughs) to help understand our ocean world and make it better. The ocean is rising, and so are we!
Learn more at bluefront.org
We talk with NOAA’s Superintendent of the Greater Farallones and Cordell Banks Marine Sanctuaries off California, some of the most productive waters in the world. While she “loves the white sharks” for which the Farallones are famous, comparing one to “a school bus swimming by,” she doesn’t want anyone to forget the other fish, whales, deep sea corals, sea lions, seabirds, even an aircraft carrier that was scuttled there. Learn more about the challenges and wonders of one of California and the world’s ocean treasures from its most enthusiastic steward.
Rising Tide, the Ocean Podcast is co-hosted by Blue Frontier's David Helvarg and the Inland Ocean Coalition's Vicki Nichols-Goldstein. This podcast aims to give you information, inspiration and motivation (along with a few laughs) to help understand our ocean world and make it better. The ocean is rising, and so are we!
Learn more at bluefront.org
Surfer scientist, writer and long-time Northern California marine lab director Brian Tissot talks with us about the state of California’s declining kelp forests, his years studying endangered tropical corals and more. More includes what he’s taught and learned from the upcoming generation of marine science students in his Trinidad CA. lab, his science-based science fiction, and what it’s like surfing the cold waters of the North Pacific after years in Hawaii’s breakers.
Rising Tide, the Ocean Podcast is co-hosted by Blue Frontier's David Helvarg and the Inland Ocean Coalition's Vicki Nichols-Goldstein. This podcast aims to give you information, inspiration and motivation (along with a few laughs) to help understand our ocean world and make it better. The ocean is rising, and so are we!
Learn more at bluefront.org
We welcome back Ian Urbina who was on Rising Tide's first episode. The former NY Times reporter’s Outlaw Ocean series became a bestselling book and now The Outlaw Ocean Project. We discuss his latest reporting for the New Yorker magazine on how thousands of climate refugees from Africa seeking to cross the Mediterranean are being seized by Libyan Militias who also kidnapped and beat Ian while he was working on this story. We’ll also talk about lack of law enforcement at sea, the link between music and journalism and more.
Rising Tide, the Ocean Podcast is co-hosted by Blue Frontier's David Helvarg and the Inland Ocean Coalition's Vicki Nichols-Goldstein. This podcast aims to give you information, inspiration and motivation (along with a few laughs) to help understand our ocean world and make it better. The ocean is rising, and so are we!
Learn more at bluefront.org
Dive in with Chris Dixon & Jeremy Spencer the co-authors and editors of “The Ocean - the Ultimate Handbook of Nautical Knowledge,” that’s also been referred to as ‘Poseidon’s Bible’. A perfect holiday gift with illustrated sections on boating, surfing, diving, how to survive a jellyfish sting, nautical lore and more. We’ll even quiz Chris and Jeremy on what they reported and discuss everything you need to know for a life of oceanic adventure.
Rising Tide, the Ocean Podcast is co-hosted by Blue Frontier's David Helvarg and the Inland Ocean Coalition's Vicki Nichols-Goldstein. This podcast aims to give you information, inspiration and motivation (along with a few laughs) to help understand our ocean world and make it better. The ocean is rising, and so are we!
Learn more at bluefront.org
Join us in PART TWO of our Rising Tide conversation with “Her Deepness” National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence Dr. Sylvia Earl and her daughter and President of the Deep Ocean Exploration and Research (DOER) marine technology company, Liz Taylor. In this second part we will hear about the climate, the carbon cycle and how we will turn the tide in ocean policy and conservation.
Rising Tide, the Ocean Podcast is co-hosted by Blue Frontier's David Helvarg and the Inland Ocean Coalition's Vicki Nichols-Goldstein. This podcast aims to give you information, inspiration and motivation (along with a few laughs) to help understand our ocean world and make it better. The ocean is rising, and so are we!
Learn more at bluefront.org
Rising Tide is a project of Blue Frontier founded by host David Helvarg. Co-host Vicki Nichols-Goldstein is founder of the Inland Ocean Coalition. In this special 20-minute episode we talk with Michael Stocker, Daniela Huson, Wallace J. Nichols and Mary Crowley, leaders of three other groups who’ve joined with us in Ten4Ocean, the unique funding collaboration sea starring ten highly effective grassroots blue groups. If you are not attending the Climate Summit in Glasgow learn about a way you can still make a difference and a splash for our blue planet by supporting Ten4Ocean.org
Join us in part one of our two part Rising Tide conversation with “Her Deepness” National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence Dr. Sylvia Earl and her daughter and President of the Deep Ocean Exploration and Research (DOER) marine technology company, Liz Taylor. In this initial talk they’ll discuss how their relationship evolved from parental to professional partnering in ocean exploration, some of the new challenges they see including deep-sea mining and how the generations of her family give Sylvia hope for the future.
Rising Tide, the Ocean Podcast is co-hosted by Blue Frontier's David Helvarg and the Inland Ocean Coalition's Vicki Nichols-Goldstein. This podcast aims to give you information, inspiration and motivation (along with a few laughs) to help understand our ocean world and make it better. The ocean is rising, and so are we!
Learn more at bluefront.org
If you missed our Writers For the Sea: Fiction For the Sea, we're offering the full panel discussion on this week's podcast. Join us as our host David Helvarg dives into the creative minds of New York Times best-selling author Lisa See and syndicated cartoonist Jim Toomey, discussing their incredible ocean fiction, and their paths of how they got to where they are today.
Rising Tide, the Ocean Podcast is co-hosted by Blue Frontier's David Helvarg and the Inland Ocean Coalition's Vicki Nichols-Goldstein. This podcast aims to give you information, inspiration and motivation (along with a few laughs) to help understand our ocean world and make it better. The ocean is rising, and so are we!
Learn more at bluefront.org
We open season two of Rising Tide talking with Andres Soto, community organizer for Citizens for a Better Environment, multi-talented musician (that’s him on Sax) and steering committee member of Richmond, California’s Point Molate Alliance. Andres will introduce you to the diverse shoreline city of Richmond where Rising Tide is based and where he was raised. His insights into local history, organizing, social justice and the fight to keep the last undeveloped natural headland on San Francisco Bay in public hands will leave you inspired.
Rising Tide, the Ocean Podcast is co-hosted by Blue Frontier's David Helvarg and the Inland Ocean Coalition's Vicki Nichols-Goldstein. This podcast aims to give you information, inspiration and motivation (along with a few laughs) to help understand our ocean world and make it better. The ocean is rising, and so are we!
Learn more at bluefront.org
If you missed her on NPR’s ‘Science Friday’ hear our friend Author and Journalist Cynthia Barnett share stories from her new book ‘The Sound of the Sea – Seashells and the Fate of the Oceans’ including the role ‘feminist science’ played in nature studies and who ‘She sells seashells by the seashore’ is really all about. Also she tells us why, despite Florida’s killer red tides, rising seas and other disasters she still has hope for her native state’s future.
Rising Tide, the Ocean Podcast is co-hosted by Blue Frontier's David Helvarg and the Inland Ocean Coalition's Vicki Nichols-Goldstein. This podcast aims to give you information, inspiration and motivation (along with a few laughs) to help understand our ocean world and make it better. The ocean is rising, and so are we!
Learn more at bluefront.org
The day before Hurricane Ida devastated Louisiana, the Gulf and then the Northeast we spoke with New Orlean’s Pulitzer Prize winning reporter Mark Schleifstein (now reporting on the wake of Ida) about his experiences during Hurricane Katrina, failed levees, coastal restoration and how sea level rise and flooding will impact the future of Louisiana and the world. Listen to this timely and alarming interview about life in the Greenhouse Century.
Rising Tide, the Ocean Podcast is co-hosted by Blue Frontier's David Helvarg and the Inland Ocean Coalition's Vicki Nichols-Goldstein. This podcast aims to give you information, inspiration and motivation (along with a few laughs) to help understand our ocean world and make it better. The ocean is rising, and so are we!
Learn more at bluefront.org
We talk to long-distance adventure swimmer, author and activist Matt Moseley about his first-ever swims in the ocean, rivers and across Lake Pontchartrain in New Orleans, now hit with yet another catastrophic hurricane. He explains about feeling like a fish out of water and what running out of water could mean for 40 million people across the West. Plus he offers some hope and solutions one can pursue.
Rising Tide, the Ocean Podcast is co-hosted by Blue Frontier's David Helvarg and the Inland Ocean Coalition's Vicki Nichols-Goldstein. This podcast aims to give you information, inspiration and motivation (along with a few laughs) to help understand our ocean world and make it better. The ocean is rising, and so are we!
Learn more at bluefront.org
From Iowa to an Oscar, Louie Psihoyos continues to engage people with his famed National Geographic photography, award-winning films including ‘The Cove’ and ‘Racing Extinction’ and projected images. His larger than life endangered species vying for our attention on the Empire State building and the Vatican and his evolving views on food and social movements are just a few of the things we discuss with him.
Rising Tide, the Ocean Podcast is co-hosted by Blue Frontier's David Helvarg and the Inland Ocean Coalition's Vicki Nichols-Goldstein. This podcast aims to give you information, inspiration and motivation (along with a few laughs) to help understand our ocean world and make it better. The ocean is rising, and so are we!
Learn more at bluefront.org
Dianna and Julia Cohen are two of the co-founders of the Plastic Pollution Coalition. Mixing lifetimes of art and activism they talk about the challenges of plastic pollution, including countering industry propaganda about recycling. Along with ocean and human health impacts and actions we can all take, they offer insights, opportunities and solutions to take us Beyond petroleum-based Plastic Pollution.
Rising Tide, the Ocean Podcast is co-hosted by Blue Frontier's David Helvarg and the Inland Ocean Coalition's Vicki Nichols-Goldstein. This podcast aims to give you information, inspiration and motivation (along with a few laughs) to help understand our ocean world and make it better. The ocean is rising, and so are we!
Learn more at bluefront.org
This week we speak with marine mammal veterinarian and disease pioneer Dr. Frances Gulland. One of three members of the U.S. Marine Mammal Commission, we speak to her about her decades of unique work from treating sick sea lions to studying dead whales (while avoiding hungry white sharks) to Flipper’s future in a changing world.
Rising Tide, the Ocean Podcast is co-hosted by Blue Frontier's David Helvarg and the Inland Ocean Coalition's Vicki Nichols-Goldstein. This podcast aims to give you information, inspiration and motivation (along with a few laughs) to help understand our ocean world and make it better. The ocean is rising, and so are we!
Learn more at bluefront.org
We talk with the renown marine life artist Wyland about his art, his life, his life-sized whaling walls, where he gets his inspiration (hint, he’s a dedicated diver), some of his adventures and the new edgier direction he’s taking his artwork balancing wonder and warning for our blue world.
Rising Tide, the Ocean Podcast is co-hosted by Blue Frontier's David Helvarg and the Inland Ocean Coalition's Vicki Nichols-Goldstein. This podcast aims to give you information, inspiration and motivation (along with a few laughs) to help understand our ocean world and make it better. The ocean is rising, and so are we!
Learn more at bluefront.org
Jeremy Jackson, one of the world’s leading ocean ecologists, paleobiologists and conservationists talks to us about his hopes and concerns about the state of the ocean, the land and human civilization. He also tells us about his work over time, rapid climate change, coral reef migration and the kind of science needed to turn the tide.
Rising Tide, the Ocean Podcast is co-hosted by Blue Frontier's David Helvarg and the Inland Ocean Coalition's Vicki Nichols-Goldstein. This podcast aims to give you information, inspiration and motivation (along with a few laughs) to help understand our ocean world and make it better. The ocean is rising, and so are we!
Learn more at bluefront.org
Join us in conversation with Ana Blanco, Executive Director of the International Ocean Film Festival. We talk about the ocean in our living rooms and theaters, how documentaries and other media from Cousteau TV specials to this year’s Academy Award winning ‘My Octopus Teacher,’ help connect people to the ocean in both its wonder and its warnings. Join us to learn more about this unique film fest and some of Ana (and our) favorite ocean films.
Rising Tide, the Ocean Podcast is co-hosted by Blue Frontier's David Helvarg and the Inland Ocean Coalition's Vicki Nichols-Goldstein. This podcast aims to give you information, inspiration and motivation (along with a few laughs) to help understand our ocean world and make it better. The ocean is rising, and so are we!
Learn more at bluefront.org
Join us with Dr. Kristin Aquilino, head of the White Abalone breeding program at UC Davis marine lab in northern California. Find out how a deep-water marine snail almost got pan-fried to extinction and what she and others are doing to reintroduce it into the ocean.
After listening read David’s story on the scientist and the mollusk in Sierra Club magazine
https://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/abalone-edge
Rising Tide, the Ocean Podcast is co-hosted by Blue Frontier's David Helvarg and the Inland Ocean Coalition's Vicki Nichols-Goldstein. This podcast aims to give you information, inspiration and motivation (along with a few laughs) to help understand our ocean world and make it better. The ocean is rising, and so are we!
Learn more at bluefront.org
Another Rising Tide, another amazing, salty woman. This time we’re talking with Mehgan Heaney-Grier, an early record-holding free diver who helped introduce the sport to the U.S. Her latest project is the web-series the ‘Imperfect Conservationist.’ In her long ocean career she’s also been a stunt diver for ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ and part of the Discovery Channel explorers team for ‘Treasure Quest – Snake Island.’ Curious to hear more? Just tune in.
Rising Tide, the Ocean Podcast is co-hosted by Blue Frontier's David Helvarg and the Inland Ocean Coalition's Vicki Nichols-Goldstein. This podcast aims to give you information, inspiration and motivation (along with a few laughs) to help understand our ocean world and make it better. The ocean is rising, and so are we!
Learn more at bluefront.org
Join us in conversation with the amazing Roz Savage. Roz is the first (and so far only) woman to row solo across the world’s “Big Three” oceans: the Atlantic, the Pacific, and the Indian. A Guinness World Record holder, appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire by the Queen, she talks about her motivations, challenges and what she learned about how we can all make a difference for our blue planet.
Rising Tide Podcast aims to give you information, inspiration, and motivation to tackle the challenges our oceans are facing. The oceans are rising, so are we!
Learn more at bluefront.org
If you missed our Writers for the Sea Authors Panel with Brian Skerry, Sylvia Earle, and Carl Safina, we're offering the full panel discussion on this week's podcast. Dive in with two famed scientist-authors and a renowned in-depth photographer talk about their latest books or those about to surface.
Rising Tide Podcast aims to give you information, inspiration, and motivation to tackle the challenges our oceans are facing. The oceans are rising, so are we!
Learn more at bluefront.org
From using genetics to aid coral survival to processing whale DNA to track illegal slaughter, from toxic dolphins to the wonders of Monterey Bay, ocean scientist Dr. Steve Palumbi has been a leader in applying science to ocean solutions. Join us in conversation with this widely admired Stanford scientist and popular author. As a bonus you’ll hear about an extremely interesting deep-sea octopus and her egg hatch.
Rising Tide Podcast aims to give you information, inspiration, and motivation to tackle the challenges our oceans are facing. The oceans are rising, so are we!
Learn more at bluefront.org
The search for a dolphin Sanctuary, cold turtle rescues (also seal pups), a coral nursery, a floating wetland in Baltimore harbor visited by eels, crabs and a muskrat, climate change education for millions, the COVID pandemic and environmental justice as key to our future. Our conversation with the National Aquarium’s President and CEO John Racanelli is proof that what you’ll find there today – which he says may be the best time to visit - is not your father’s aquarium.
Rising Tide Podcast aims to give you information, inspiration, and motivation to tackle the challenges our oceans are facing. The oceans are rising, so are we!
Learn more at bluefront.org
David talks with Hawaii-based author and activist Stuart Coleman about his 30-year journey surfing and writing about ocean legends such as big wave surfer Eddie Aikau (“Eddie Would Go”). Also his decade long work leading Surfrider Hawaii in their many battles won to keep the ocean clean and safe from plastic pollution, toxic sunscreen and more, plus, his latest passion to get the poop out of the water through incineration and recycling of our waste products. Talk about Hot Sh*t!
Rising Tide Podcast aims to give you information, inspiration, and motivation to tackle the challenges our oceans are facing. The oceans are rising, so are we!
Learn more at bluefront.org
Vicki and David talk with shark-protector, member of the Women’s Diving Hall of Fame and honored board member of Blue Frontier Wendy Benchley. Wendy shares some of her thoughts about ocean adventures she shared with her late husband, 'Jaws' author Peter Benchley (see pix) and the challenges and hopes for ocean conservation and ocean-climate action today. Also learn how it was almost Jaws – the comedy.'
Rising Tide Podcast aims to give you information, inspiration, and motivation to tackle the challenges our oceans are facing. The oceans are rising, so are we!
Learn more at bluefront.org
Join our wide-ranging discussion with John Hocevar, Greenpeace USA’s Oceans Campaign Director. From piloting two-person submarines into deep canyons in the Bering Sea to Antarctic ocean floors covered in sea stars to fighting plastic pollution and recording the impacts of the BP oil spill - hear about John’s wide ranging efforts and adventures. Also get updated on Greenpeace’s hopes and plans for saving the Ocean under the Biden administration and following the pandemic.
Rising Tide Podcast aims to give you information, inspiration, and motivation to tackle the challenges our oceans are facing. The oceans are rising, so are we!
Learn more at bluefront.org
We talk with Professor and former Executive Director of the Port of Los Angeles Geraldine Knatz. Along with being the first woman to run a major port, she is also the founder of the global greening ports movement, having reduced air pollution in the LA/Long Beach port complex 70 percent in 5 years. The author of a new book, ‘Port of Los Angeles’ she'll say what’s next for climate and clean-up in ports and shipping.
Rising Tide Podcast aims to give you information, inspiration, and motivation to tackle the challenges our oceans are facing. The oceans are rising, so are we!
Learn more at bluefront.org
We talk with acoustician Michael Stocker, Founder of Ocean Conservation Research, who explains what a misnomer, “The Silent World,” of Jacques Cousteau actually was. Michael shares sound samples of what a noisy world the ocean has become and the difference between human noise pollution and the lively chatter of a living sea. Here’s a chance to dive into the ocean with your ears and mind.
Rising Tide Podcast aims to give you information, inspiration, and motivation to tackle the challenges our oceans are facing. The oceans are rising, so are we!
Learn more at bluefront.org
If you didn’t see it live or on YouTube for our 20th Rising Tide we’re offering the full Writers for the Sea panel discussion David had with his fellow author adventurers Philippe and Ashlan Cousteau, National Geographic Explorer-in-Resident Enric Sala and 18-year-old activist Hannah Testa (Hannah4Change). Among other things they discuss their latest books ‘The Endangereds’, ‘Oceans for Dummies’, ‘The Nature of Nature’ and ‘Taking on the Plastics Crisis.’
Rising Tide Podcast aims to give you information, inspiration, and motivation to tackle the challenges our oceans are facing. The oceans are rising, so are we!
Learn more at bluefront.org
We talk with Anna Cummins, Co-Founder of 5 Gyres, one of the leading ocean plastics groups about the science, advocacy and adventure involved in fighting to end plastic pollution of our seas and waterways. It’s all about corporate accountability, finding non-fossil fuel based alternatives and fun fact you’ll hear… Anna once interned for our co-host Vicki.
Rising Tide Podcast aims to give you information, inspiration, and motivation to tackle the challenges our oceans are facing. The oceans are rising, so are we!
Learn more at bluefront.org
This time David and Vicki chat with Kelly Wright, chair of the Wyoming Chapter of the Inland Ocean Coalition that Vicki organized. An outdoors woman and lifelong resident of “the Cowboy State” Kelly reveals the connection between cattle and sea turtles while she and Vicki expand on all the other things that connect the heartland and the sea.
Rising Tide Podcast aims to give you information, inspiration, and motivation to tackle the challenges our oceans are facing. The oceans are rising, so are we!
Learn more at bluefront.org
With the victory of President-elect Joe Biden and Vice-President-elect Kamala Harris, David and Vicki talk to the Aspen Institute’s Michael Conathan. Michael who has worked on ocean policy both at the democratic-oriented Center for American Progress and in congress under former Republican Senator Olympia Snowe, talks about what a Biden-Harris administration might do to turn the tide for a healthy ocean and blue economy.
Rising Tide Podcast aims to give you information, inspiration, and motivation to tackle the challenges our oceans are facing. The oceans are rising, so are we!
Learn more at bluefront.org
With less than two weeks to a historic election that will define the fate of our blue planet, Vicki and I thought we’d chat with ‘Vote the Ocean’ founders Rob Moir and Vipe Desai. Rob, Executive Director of the Ocean River Institute and Vipe, Board Chair of the Ocean Institute are educating citizens on the importance of voting for healthy seas while also working with youth activists and ocean friendly companies.
Rising Tide Podcast aims to give you information, inspiration, and motivation to tackle the challenges our oceans are facing. The oceans are rising, so are we!
Learn more at bluefront.org
For over 30 years Richard Charter has been a leader of the national fight to stop offshore oil drilling in our public seas while also being a driver behind the establishment of California’s national marine sanctuaries. Richard talks with David and Vicki about how he gets it done, the challenges of the Trump years and how offshore oil and climate are impacting the 2020 election.
Rising Tide Podcast aims to give you information, inspiration, and motivation to tackle the challenges our oceans are facing. The oceans are rising, so are we!
Learn more at bluefront.org
Philippe and Ashlan Cousteau are ocean explorers and multimedia producers who put the blue in the red carpet. Philippe is the third generation of the legendary Cousteau family and Ashlan an entertainment journalist who now reports on sea stars. Among other topics they’ll talk about their latest book projects – The Endangereds (“animals take fate into their own paws”) and Oceans for Dummies.
Rising Tide Podcast aims to give you information, inspiration, and motivation to tackle the challenges our oceans are facing. The oceans are rising, so are we!
Learn more at bluefront.org
Get your Blue Mind on with Dr. Wallace J. Nichols, marine biologist, water-lover, and turtle nerd. Hear about how he lost his home in the recent California Lightning Complex fires, and what happens to our brain when in and around the water.
Rising Tide Podcast aims to give you information, inspiration, and motivation to tackle the challenges our oceans are facing. The oceans are rising, so are we!
Learn more at bluefront.org
Entrepreneur Daniela Fernandez is one of those 30 under 30 folks you read about with a Silicon-Valley tech incubator for new companies that are all ocean friendly. David talks to Daniela, founder of the Sustainable Ocean Alliance, about her life, love (of penguins), election demographics, seaweed plastic and other innovations and ideas.
Rising Tide Podcast aims to give you information, inspiration, and motivation to tackle the challenges our oceans are facing. The oceans are rising, so are we!
Learn more at bluefront.org
A lifelong Jersey Gal who grew up in an ocean loving family, Margo Pellegrino has paddled her one-woman outrigger canoe from Miami to Maine, Seattle to San Diego, New York to New Orleans and on other epic water journeys she shares with us. Did we mention this famed endurance athlete is also outreach coordinator for Blue Frontier?
Rising Tide Podcast aims to give you information, inspiration, and motivation to tackle the challenges our oceans are facing. The oceans are rising, so are we!
Learn more at bluefront.org
With an election less than 100 days away Ralph Nader offers his wisdom on how the ocean community can win its battles against offshore oil drilling and for healthy seas. He also talks about giving voice to the ocean’s wildlife and we hear from a Weddell Seal.
Rising Tide Podcast aims to give you information, inspiration, and motivation to tackle the challenges our oceans are facing. The oceans are rising, so are we!
Learn more at bluefront.org
David talks with Jason Scorse and 16-year-old activist Charley Peebler about the newly released Ocean Climate Action Plan - Blue New Deal. As an added treat, they discuss spitting parrotfish and dancing octopuses.
Rising Tide Podcast aims to give you information, inspiration, and motivation to tackle the challenges our oceans are facing. The oceans are rising, so are we!
Learn more at bluefront.org
While Sherman the Shark might spend the 4th of July brunching on “hairless beach apes,” who flock to the shore despite COVID, David talks with syndicated cartoonist and ‘Sherman’s Lagoon’ creator Jim Toomey about drawing, diving, sailing, the lighter side of ocean conservation, and why, when it comes to sea creatures such as vampire squid, God’s the best animator.
Rising Tide Podcast aims to give you information, inspiration, and motivation to tackle the challenges our oceans are facing. The oceans are rising, so are we!
Learn more at bluefront.org
David talks to artist and TV personality Danni Washington about the links between BLM protests, frontline communities of color, clean water, Gen Z, COVID-19, STEM for girls and boys, how to make science fun and more.
Rising Tide Podcast aims to give you information, inspiration, and motivation to tackle the challenges our oceans are facing. The oceans are rising, so are we!
Learn more at bluefront.org
David talks story with Hawaii’s Nainoa Thompson, President of the Polynesian Voyaging Society and a master navigator who has sailed voyaging canoes across the Pacific and the world ocean using the ways and waves of his explorer ancestors.
Rising Tide Podcast aims to give you information, inspiration, and motivation to tackle the challenges our oceans are facing. The oceans are rising, so are we!
Learn more at bluefront.org
Following a taste of our Ocean Climate webinar with Senator Jeff Merkeley (D-OR), David interviews 13-year-old Dakota Peebler (Heirs To Our Oceans), for her take on the state of the Ocean and chats with coral ecologist Dr. Nancy Knowlton on why she’s still optimistic.
Rising Tide Podcast aims to give you information, inspiration, and motivation to tackle the challenges our oceans are facing. The oceans are rising, so are we!
Learn more at bluefront.org
A blast from the past from Davy Jones Locker (actually David’s radio archives) includes a report on coral bleaching in Fiji 20 years ago. Then don’t miss our talk with Serge Dedina, the famed Surfing Mayor of Imperial Beach and Executive Director of WILDCOAST.
Rising Tide Podcast aims to give you information, inspiration, and motivation to tackle the challenges our oceans are facing. The oceans are rising, so are we!
Learn more at bluefront.org
We’re never socially distant from solutions - Hear from Mary Crowley, the mariner who’s removed tons of discarded fishing nets from the Ocean and reconnect with Vicki Nichols-Goldstein – who you heard in our pilot episode - founder of the Inland Ocean Coalition.
Rising Tide Podcast aims to give you information, inspiration, and motivation to tackle the challenges our oceans are facing. The oceans are rising, so are we!
Learn more at bluefront.org
Following a comment on the COVID-19 pandemic, the Ocean and Climate David introduces Time magazine’s ‘Hero of the Planet Dr. Sylvia Earle along with Nick Landon, a second year cadet at one of our little known U.S. Maritime Academies.
Rising Tide Podcast aims to give you information, inspiration, and motivation to tackle the challenges our oceans are facing. The oceans are rising, so are we!
Learn more at bluefront.org
David interviews longtime New York Times reporter and author Ian Urbina about his best-selling book on our lawless seas from pirate fishing slaves to floating mercenaries to others he met during two years of at sea research.
This podcast aims to give you information, inspiration, and motivation to tackle the challenges our oceans are facing. The oceans are rising, so are we!
Learn more at bluefront.org
Welcome to Blue Frontier's new podcast, Rising Tide, hosted by Blue Frontier's Executive Director, David Helvarg. You will meet today's ocean champions, including senators, scientists, surfers, and youth activists. We will cover a range of issues, including climate change, overfishing, and plastic pollution. This podcast aims to give you information, inspiration, and motivation to tackle the challenges our oceans are facing. The oceans are rising, so are we!
Learn more at bluefront.org