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The Policy Persuasian

Scotland and the UK are undergoing radical reform in the way the oceans and coasts are managed and one man to help them engage in this smoothly is Dr. Tavis Potts, a social scientist and member of the Scottish Association for Marine Science with a keen interest in marine and coastal policy on local, national, and international levels, application of...

| Thursday, 5 November 2009

The Soul Man

Dr. Daniel P. Brown (formerly "Irradiatus") may be doing a second post-doctoral research job at Carnegie Mellon University at the lab of Dr. Veronica Hinman to study the evolution of developmental gene networks, and the creator of the magnificent blog Biochemical Soul where he writes about science, nature, outreach and evolution, but he's also one of the nicest biologists...

| Thursday, 29 October 2009

Pet Fish in Science Fiction

As far as pets in science fiction are concerned, fish are pretty low on the popularity list. They don't make very good companions when exploring a newly-discovered planet or help keep you space ship rat free. However, there are a few science fictional characters that do keep an aquarium. Not only are those pet fish educational and entertaining, they tell...

Peggy | Wednesday, 28 October 2009

Acid in the Arctic

Arctic waters are rapidly turning acidic, even faster than originally thought. New research from oceanographer Dr. James Orr of the Laboratory for the Sciences of Climate and Environment in Paris predicts that the Arctic Ocean will be corrosive enough to dissolve shells of clams, mussels and others within the next decade. Host Jeff Young talks with Dr. Orr about the...

Jeff | Sunday, 25 October 2009

The Salmon Adventure

Phil Magistro and Apryle Craig knew they wanted to promote awareness of the plight of the wild Pacific salmon and chose a unique and unconventional way to do so. On May 2nd, they began in Gig Harbor, WA, paddling 1,251 miles to Glacier Bay, AK in a total of 111 days, averaging 17 miles a day. Along the way, they...

| Sunday, 25 October 2009

A Whale of a Tale

When I interviewed CEO Iain Kerr of the Ocean Alliance, an organization that collects data on whales and ocean life, he made sure that I understood that this work is not quite as romantic as it might sound, spending weeks at sea on a small boat with the same people with little or no privacy and always feeling the pinch...

| Wednesday, 21 October 2009