Aquarium of the Pacific AquaCast: Recent Episodes
Aquarium of the Pacific
Dive into the Pacific Ocean. Hear the latest news about the Aquarium of the Pacific, its animals, and exhibits, and listen to a variety of scientists and guest speakers covering important issues facing our ocean and planet. To download video files of these podcasts, visit our website at http://www.aquariumofpacific.org/multimedia
Andrew Reeves recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on February 26, 2020. Reeves is an author and environmental journalist.
Nate Jaros and Briana Fodor recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on February 19, 2020. Jaros is the Aquarium’s curator of fish and invertebrates, and Fodor is a senior aquarist.
David Bader recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on February 6, 2020. Bader is the Aquarium's director of education and lead coordinator for the Association of Zoos and Aquariums’ Vaquita SAFE (Saving Animals From Extinction) program.
Josie Iselin recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on January 30, 2020. Iselin is an artist and author of the new book, The Curious World of Seaweed.
Ellen Prager recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on January 22, 2020. Dr. Prager is a marine scientist and science advisor to Celebrity Cruises in the Galápagos Islands. Her previous books include Sex, Drugs, and Sea Slime: The Oceans’ Oddest Creatures and Why They Matter.
Susan Gerros recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on January 15, 2020. Gerros is a senior aviculturist at the Aquarium and cares for birds and reptiles.
Dr. Jason Smith recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on November 19, 2019. Dr. Smith is lead environmental scientist at DeepGreen Resources.
Dr. Barbara Taylor recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on November 12, 2019. Dr. Taylor is the leader of the Marine Mammal Genetics Program at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Southwest Fisheries Science Center and chair of the Marine Mammal Society’s Conservation Committee.
Danielle Eubank recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on November 5, 2019. Eubank is a painter and member of The Explorer’s Club, and a 2018 Creative Climate Awards nominee.
Lee McIntyre recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on October 8, 2019. McIntyre is a research fellow at the Center for Philosophy and History of Science at Boston University and a lecturer in ethics at Harvard Extension School.
Dr. Yi Chao recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on September 24, 2019. Dr. Chao is the founder and CEO of Seatrec.
Chris Corpus recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on September 19, 2019. Corpus is Aquarium’s audio visual production manager, producing the Aquarium’s web series, films, and documentaries.
Ken Kurtis recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on August 20, 2019. Kurtis has been an Aquarium volunteer since 1998. He is a dive team leader at the Aquarium and a National Association of Underwater Instructors SCUBA instructor.
Mike Bartick recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on August 14, 2019. Bartick is a field guide who conducts photo safaris, lectures, and seminars.
Kathayoon Khalil recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on August 8, 2019. Khalil is the principal evaluator for the Seattle Aquarium.
Jennifer Brandon recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on July 24, 2019. Brandon has a Ph.D. in biological oceanography from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. She recently completed an eighteen-month stint as the Price Postdoctoral Fellow in science communication and outreach at the Birch Aquarium at Scripps.
Shawn Maestretti and Leigh Adams recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on July 17, 2019. Maestretti is a landscape architect, arborist, and principal of Shawn Maestretti Garden Architecture. Adams is a horticultural interpreter at the Los Angeles County Arboretum and Botanic Gardens.
Kim Steinhardt recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on June 27, 2019. Steinhardt is a former administrative law judge turned environmental writer and marine wildlife photographer.
Paul Erickson recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on June 11, 2019. Erickson is a freelance writer and exhibit developer and works as an educator and aquarist on the Endeavour research vessel based in Salem, Massachusetts.
Edward Barbier recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on May 30, 2019. Barbier is a professor in the department of economics at Colorado State University and a senior scholar in the School of Global Environmental Sustainability.
Dr. Manuel Pastor recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on March 26, 2019. Dr. Pastor is a professor of sociology and American studies and ethnicity at the University of Southern California (USC).
Sam Muka recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on March 19, 2019. Muka is an assistant professor in the Science and Technology Studies program at the Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, New Jersey.
Joshua Goldstein recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on March 12, 2019. Goldstein is professor emeritus of international relations at American University in Washington, D.C.
Sara Mandel recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on February 28, 2019. Mandel is an aviculturist at the Aquarium of the Pacific.
Jessica Whited recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on February 19, 2019. Whited is an assistant professor of stem cell and regenerative biology at Harvard University.
James Gesualdi recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on February 13, 2019. Gesualdi is an animal welfare attorney based in New York.
Katie Finch recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on February 5, 2019. Finch is a mammalogist at the Aquarium of the Pacific.
Curtis Marean recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on January 16, 2019. Marean is a professor at Arizona State University’s Institute of Human Origins and School of Human Evolution and Social Change.
Jeremy Jackson recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on January 9, 2019. Jackson is an emeritus professor at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography and a senior scientist emeritus at the Smithsonian Institution.
Scott Nichols recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on November 13, 2018. Nichols is the founder of Food's Future, an aquaculture consultancy.
William Cooper recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on November 6, 2018. Cooper is a former professor of civil and environmental engineering at the University of California, Irvine, and program director of environmental engineering at the National Science Foundation.
Mike Mitchell recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on November 1, 2018. Mitchell is the co-founder and CEO of Acarí Fish.
Greg Rau recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on October 16, 2018. Rau is a senior research scientist at the Institute of Marine Sciences at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
Anne Cohen recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on October 11, 2018. Cohen is an associate scientist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.
Ester Quintana recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on October 2, 2018. Dr. Quintana is a research scientist at the Anderson Cabot Center for Ocean Life at the New England Aquarium.
Rob Mortensen and Katherine Finch recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on September 19, 2018. Mortensen is the Aquarium's curator of mammals and birds and Finch is a mammalogist.
Dr. Randi Rotjan recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on September 20, 2018. Dr. Rotjan is a research assistant professor at Boston University and co-chief scientist of the PIPA Conservation Trust.
Andrew Policano recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on September 13, 2018. Policano is former dean and professor emeritus of economics and public policy at The Paul Merage School of Business, University of California, Irvine.
Dr. Sandy Trautwein recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on August 30, 2018. Dr. Trautwein is the Aquarium's vice president of husbandry.
Dr. James Danoff-Burg recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on August 23, 2018. Dr. Danoff-Burg is the director of conservation at The Living Desert in Palm Desert, California.
Dr. Drew Lohrer recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on August 16, 2018. He is a principal marine ecologist at the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research in New Zealand.
Gregory Barord recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on August 14, 2018. Barord is a conservation biologist for Save the Nautilus and the marine biology instructor for Des Moines Public Schools’ Central Campus.
John Fraser recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on August 7, 2018. Fraser is president and CEO of NewKnowledge, a social science think tank aimed at building healthy democracy and a thriving biosphere.
Mike Bartick recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on July 31, 2018. Bartick is an avid diver and photographer whose work concentrates on the macro fauna of the Verde Island Pass located near Anilao, Philippines.
Tapan Pathak recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on July 26, 2018. Pathak serves as cooperative extension specialist in climate adaptation in agriculture at the University of California Division of Agriculture and Resources and UC Merced.
Tyler Phelps recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on July 10, 2018. Phelps is a graduate student with the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco pursuing mesophotic fish ecology research as part of their global Hope for Reefs Initiative.
Holly Buck recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on June 28, 2018. Buck is a researcher at UCLA’s Institute of the Environment and Sustainability. She completed a Ph.D. on environmental sociology and emerging technologies at Cornell University.
Dominique Rissolo recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on June 12, 2018. Rissolo is an assistant researcher at the University of California, San Diego’s Qualcomm Institute.
Albert George recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on June 7, 2018. George is the director of conservation at the South Carolina Aquarium.
Danna Staaf recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on May 15, 2018. She is a science writer and educator and the author of Squid Empire: The Rise and Fall of the Cephalopods.
Daniel Cartamil recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on May 9, 2018. He is a marine biologist and shark expert at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, California.
Craig Heberer recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on March 20, 2018. Heberer is deputy director of the Nature Conservancy’s Indo-Pacific Tuna Program.
Lauren Harper recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on March 13, 2018. Harper is a senior aquarist in the Aquarium's Tropical Pacific Gallery.
A.G. Kawamura recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on March 6, 2018. Kawamura is a third generation fruit and vegetable grower and shipper and owner of Orange County Produce. He is the former Secretary of the California Department of Food and Agriculture.
Peter Moyle recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on February 27, 2018. Moyle is distinguished professor emeritus in the Department of Wildlife, Fish, and Conservation Biology and associate director of the Center for Watershed Sciences at the University of California, Davis.
Katelyn Sullivan recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on February 13, 2018. Sullivan is the Aquarium's education coordinator and was selected as a 2017 AltaSea Nautilus Ambassador.
Dr. William Cooper recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on February 12, 2018. Dr. Cooper is a professor of civil and environmental engineering and director of the Urban Water Research Center at the University of California, Irvine.
Brian Fagan recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on January 31, 2018. Fagan is the author of Fishing: How the Sea Fed Civilization, Elixir: A History of Water and Humankind, and Beyond the Blue Horizon: How the Earliest Mariners Unlocked the Secrets of the Ocean.
JD Talasek recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on January 18, 2018. Talasek is the director of Cultural Programs of the National Academy of Sciences.
Dr. Thomas White recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on January 16, 2018. Dr. White is the Conrad N. Hilton Chair of Business Ethics and the director of the Center for Ethics and Business at Loyola Marymount University.
Kim Steinhardt and Gary Griggs recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on November 30, 2017. Griggs is a Distinguished Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and Steinhardt is a former state Administrative Law Judge and litigator, as well as a long-time conservationist and public interest advocate.
Judith Kildow recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on November 14, 2017. She is founder and director of the National Ocean Economics Program (NOEP) at the Center for the Blue Economy at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey, California.
Nancy Knowlton recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on November 9, 2017. Knowlton is the Sant Chair for Marine Science at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History and co-host of the Earth Optimism Summit in Washington, D.C.
Chris Lowe recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on November 2, 2017. Lowe is a professor of marine biology and director of the Shark Lab at California State University, Long Beach.
Murray Fisher recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on October 19, 2017. Fisher is the executive director of the New York Harbor Foundation and founder of the New York Harbor School.
Rebecca Tarvin recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on October 12, 2017. Tarvin is a Ph.D. student in the Evolution, Ecology, and Behavior program at the University of Texas at Austin. She has studied frogs in Ecuador and Colombia and studies in the evolution of toxicity in poison frogs.
Mark Martinez recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on April 27, 2017. Martinez is a senior portfolio manager for Southern California Edison and Emerging Markets and Technology program lead.
Ruth Gates recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on September 19, 2017. Dr. Gates is the director of and a researcher at the Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology, University of Hawaii at Manoa.
Michael Prather recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on September 7, 2017. Prather is a University of California, Irvine, distinguished professor of Earth system science.
Kerry Kriger recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on August 29, 2017. Dr. Kriger is the founder and executive director of SAVE THE FROGS!
Alexandra Lawlor recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on August 23, 2017. Lawlor has been on staff at the Aquarium since 2015 and is responsible for exhibits in the Southern California/Baja Gallery.
Dr. Gregory Stone recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on August 3, 2017. Dr. Stone was a co-founder of the Ocean Health Index and serves on the boards of Pacific Rising and Aquaspark. He also was the science advisor to the nation of Kiribati for the United Nations Paris climate agreement.
Agustín Fuentes recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on July 26, 2017. Fuentes is a professor and chair of anthropology at the University of Notre Dame. He is also a blogger for Psychology Today and The Huffington Post.
Robert Schallmann recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on July 18, 2017. Schallmann has served as the conservation program manager at Naval Weapons Station Seal Beach since 2003 and is responsible for overseeing the natural resources program, including the management of several endangered, threatened, and at-risk species.
Alex Hall recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on June 22, 2017. Dr. Hall is a professor in the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences and Institute of the Environment and Sustainability and director of the Center for Climate Science at UCLA.
Lee Kats recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on June 8, 2017. For over twenty-five years Dr. Lee Kats and his students at Pepperdine University have studied the amphibians that inhabit streams and wetlands around Los Angeles.
Jonathan White recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on May 30, 2107. White is a writer, sailor, and marine conservationist.
Daniel Goldman recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on May 17, 2017. Goldman is a professor of physics at the Georgia Institute of Technology.
Robert Pomeroy recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on May 2, 2107. Pomeroy is a professor of chemistry and biochemistry at the University of California, San Diego.
Christine Whitcraft recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on March 22, 2017. Whitcraft is an associate professor in the biology department at California State University, Long Beach, and serves as president of Friends of Colorado Lagoon and on the board of the Bolsa Chica Conservancy.
Andrew Pershing recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on March 15, 2017. Pershing is chief scientific officer at the Gulf of Maine Research Institute and runs the Ecosystem Modeling Lab.
Patrick Smith recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on March 9, 2017. Smith is a U.S. Coast Guard-licensed captain, commercial and scientific diver, and co-author of Shipwrecks of Southern California.
Kera Mathes recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on March 2, 2017. Mathes formerly served as the Aquarium’s boat programs manager and resident whale expert.
Jonathan Rose recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on February 24, 2017. Rose is the founder of investment, development, and urban planning firm Jonathan Rose Companies.
Linda Cornish and Rick Moonen recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on February 21, 2017. Cornish is executive director of Seafood Nutrition Partnership, and Moonen is a chef, cookbook author, and sustainable seafood advocate.
Malcolm Bowman recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on January 26, 2017. Bowman is an oceanographer, engineer, and professor of oceanography at State University of New York, Stony Brook.
Barbara Crane recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on January 19, 2017. Crane is a novelist, journalist and teacher. Her work has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, Sun magazine and other publications.
Ken Kurtis recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on January 5, 2017. Kurtis is a dive team leader at the Aquarium, National Association of Underwater Instructors SCUBA instructor, and owner of Reef Seekers Dive Co. in Beverly Hills.
Daniel Botkin recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on December 8, 2016. Botkin is a biologist, writer, and public speaker who works in the areas of conservation, energy production, and computer modeling.
Douglas McCauley recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on November 30, 2016. McCauley is a professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and was the lead author on the paper in the journal Science that inspired the Aquarium’s Vanishing Animals exhibit.
Rob Gould recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on November 17, 2016. Gould is the founder and president/CEO of One Degree Strategies.
Sean B. Carroll recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on October 27, 2016. Dr. Carroll is a scientist, writer, educator, and executive producer. He is vice president for science education at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and the Allan Wilson Professor of Molecular Biology and Genetics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
Mac Stone recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on October 18, 2016. Stone is a conservation photographer who frequently works in swamps and wetlands of the southeastern U.S.
Helen Scales recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on October 5, 2016. Dr. Scales is a marine biologist, broadcaster, and writer based in Cambridge, England.
Charles Wurster recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on September 27, 2016. A lifelong birder, Wurster was on the environmental sciences faculty at the State University of New York at Stony Brook for thirty-five years.
Patrick Krug recorded this Aquacast at the Aquarium on August 30, 2016. Krug is a professor at California State University, Los Angeles.