Rising Tide: The Ocean Podcast

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Rising Tide #83 – Rob Moir's Ocean River May 22, 2023

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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

Chad Nelsen is a Surfrider May 08, 2023

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Chad Nelsen grew up where the land runs out — raised on the beaches of southern California, working as a lifeguard before turning his eye toward coastal science and eventually to the fight to save the shores that shaped him. As CEO of the Surfrider Foundation, he now leads one of the ocean's most tenacious grassroots defenders: a 50,000-member coalition of surfers and saltwater devotees waging campaigns on fronts that range from protecting surf breaks to pushing back against plastic pollution, climate disruption, and the long-standing barriers that have kept the ocean's culture from being as open as the sea itself. In a moment when the tide seems to be running the wrong way, Nelsen holds to a conviction that bottom-up pressure — the kind that starts with people who simply love the water — can still change the course of things.

Rising Tide #81 - Sequoias of the Sea Apr 24, 2023

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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.

Learn more at bluefront.org

Rising Tide #80 - A Historic Ocean Treaty! Apr 10, 2023

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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!

Rising Tide #79 - Healthier than Fish Oil! Mar 27, 2023

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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.

Linda Behnken is Fishing for the Future Mar 13, 2023

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This week's guest is Linda Behnken, Executive Director of the Alaska Longline Fishermen's Association — a woman who has hauled lines in some of the coldest, most unforgiving waters on earth for more than four decades. Behnken is not the kind of person who watches a fight from the dock. As one of the most outspoken advocates for Alaska's fishing communities and the marine ecosystems they depend on, she has spent years going toe-to-toe with the industrial trawl fleets dragging nets across the seafloor and pressing lawmakers to reckon honestly with a changing climate. This episode takes on safety at sea, the creeping threat of large-scale gold mining and widespread logging, and the broader battle to keep Alaska's coastal way of life from slipping beneath the surface.

Kramer Wimberley is Diving with a Purpose Feb 27, 2023

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This week, David Helvarg sits down with Kramer Wimberley — lead dive instructor and board member of DWP, Diving With a Purpose — a man who has made the ocean floor both a classroom and a reckoning. Through the discipline of citizen science, DWP has become a leading force in locating, surveying, and documenting the shipwrecks of the Atlantic Slave Trade, pulling history up from the dark water and honoring the lives swallowed by it. But Wimberley's work doesn't stop at the past. He also helms DWP's youth program along the coral reefs of Florida, where a new generation of Black and other young divers are learning that the fight for the sea and the fight for a better future are, at their core, the same fight.

David Shiffman’s Sharks Feb 13, 2023

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This week, Rising Tide Ocean host David Helvarg & Vicki Nichols Goldstein talk with David Shiffman, a marine biologist at Arizona State University and a science communicator known for tackling sharks and the sea with equal parts wit and expertise. Shiffman dives into shark evolution, their strange and wildly varied reproductive strategies, and the tangled politics of keeping them from vanishing. Hearing from a shark expert like Shiffman is a thrill in its own right—so listeners are invited to dive in on this episode of the Rising Tide Ocean podcast.

Rising Tide #75 – Francis Lean and The Roatan Marine Park Jan 30, 2023

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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.

Learn more at bluefront.org

Rising Tide #74 - Up Against the Wall Oceans Jan 16, 2023

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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.

Learn more at bluefront.org

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