Rising Tide: The Ocean Podcast

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Rising Tide #43 - “Her Deepness” and her Daughter Oct 31, 2021

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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!

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Rising Tide #42 - Fiction for the Sea Oct 18, 2021

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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.

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Rising Tide #41 – Andres Soto’s Richmond & Point Molate Oct 03, 2021

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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.

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Rising Tide #40 – Cynthia Barnett’s Ocean of Sea Shells Sep 20, 2021

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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.

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Rising Tide #38 – Getting in the Swim with Matt Moseley Aug 30, 2021

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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.

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Louie Psihoyos’s Ocean visions Aug 16, 2021

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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 #36 – Two Sisters Taking On Plastic Aug 02, 2021

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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.

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Rising Tide #35 - Whale Doctor Frances Gulland Jul 19, 2021

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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.

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Rising Tide #34 - Wyland’s Art World of Water Jul 05, 2021

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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.

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Rising Tide #33 – Jeremy Jackson’s Blue World View Jun 21, 2021

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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.

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