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World Ocean Radio

Peter Neill, World Ocean Observatory

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World Ocean Radio is a weekly series of five-minute audio essays on a wide range of ocean topics. Available for syndicated use at no cost by college and community radio stations worldwide.
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Ocean Science Radio

Ocean Science Radio

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Ocean Science Radio is a joint project between Andrew Kornblatt, founder and host of the Online Ocean Symposium, and Naomi Frances Farabaugh of FIU. Previous co-host was Samantha Wishnak, Digital Media Coordinator at Ocean Exploration Trust. The program will focus on and highlight the latest and greatest ocean science stories that the world has to offer.
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The Scenic Route Podcast

Scenic Route Media

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Hosted by a college student and Biology and Economics major, The Scenic Route explores the lives of people who have chosen unconventional paths, pursued wild adventures, and carved careers out of unexpected places. Each week, Cal shares conversations that highlight amazing stories, valuable lessons, and the unexpected outcomes living differently, all while inviting listeners to come along on his own journey of learning how to step of the beaten path and take the scenic route in life.
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NOC Into the Blue Podcast

National Oceanography Centre

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Into the Blue, produced by the National Oceanography Centre in the UK, aims to dive deep into subjects relating to our ocean and it's seas by speaking to experts from the world of oceanography all with the goal of helping the ocean and life within it flourish.
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BOOK SCIENCE

Tripp Collins

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Book Science is a podcast dedicated to celebrating science books and their authors. Through in-depth discussions and author interviews, we explore the stories, insights, and craftsmanship behind books that make science accessible and engaging for everyone. Our mission is to champion long form science communication, inspire readers, and support aspiring authors in sharing their passion for science with the world.
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SAMS Ocean Explorer

Scottish Association for Marine Science

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The Scottish Association for Marine Science (SAMS) in Oban, Scotland is an ocean research charity and investigates various elements of our marine environment, from algae to oceanography. In this podcast, we meet staff and students from SAMS to learn more about our vast and mysterious ocean. Please consider supporting this important work https://www.sams.ac.uk/support-sams/
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It Came From the Sea

It Came From the Sea

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It Came From the Sea is a podcast started in an attempt to share with the world the amazing, complicated, and infuriating facts about the ocean the host, Sarah, picked up during her time studying at the University of Washington School of Oceanography, and over the course of her lifelong fixation with all things aquatic and salty. Through the course of this podcast, she will attempt to make the science, politics, and history of the ocean as interesting for her non-oceanographer friends as it ...
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Kronos

Jeremy Robinson

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Two years after his wife's death, oceanographer and former navy SEAL, Atticus Young, attempts to reconcile with his rebellious daughter, Giona, by taking her on the scuba dive of a lifetime-swimming with a pod of peaceful humpback whales in the Gulf of Maine. But the beauty of the sea belies a terror from the deep-a horrific creature as immense as it is ancient. There is no blood, no scream, no fight. Giona is swallowed whole by the massive jaws. Only Atticus remains to suffer the shame of t ...
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Science Documentaries

Science Documentaries

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Welcome to Science Documentaries, your ultimate destination for discovery, knowledge, and scientific exploration. At Science Documentaries, we create a unique auditory experience that helps you delve into the mysteries of the universe. Our carefully curated episodes feature in-depth discussions, expert interviews, and the latest research findings designed to ignite your curiosity, enhance your understanding, and bring the wonders of science into your daily life. Whether you're winding down a ...
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Antarctica Unfrozen

Harry Seagar

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The Antarctic podcast series based on the passionate people that have dedicated their lives to understanding, working, and living in Antarctica. Unfreezing some of the critical science, contemporary culture, and adventure the icy continent is notorious for. Season 2 will focus on multi-perspective discussions about both micro and macro topics from the hidden but ever-connected continent, serving as a 'crash course' on the environment. Produced by BLAKE Antarctic Ambassador Harry Seagar and M ...
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SIT'N Listen is a production of Science in the News - a graduate student run organization at Harvard University committed to (1) bridging the communication gap between scientists and the rest of the world and (2) catalyzing discussions between scientists, other experts and enthusiasts. Here at SITN we bring scientists to you! Listen in.
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STEM Women in KidLit

Artemis Roehrig & Rajani LaRocca

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Join authors Rajani LaRocca and Artemis Roehrig as they talk to women with STEM careers or jobs who also happen to be children's book authors and illustrators! For more information visit: rajanilarocca.com and artemisroehrig.com
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Season 1 Launches May 4, 2023 Welcome to FieldSound, the official UW College of the Environment podcast. Through immersive, narrative storytelling, host Sarah Smith explores the field of environmental science together with researchers at the University of Washington College of the Environment. Interviews and anecdotes connect listeners to the College’s global impact as guests share stories of their exciting, groundbreaking and influential discoveries. FieldSound entertains and educates liste ...
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Dr. Dimitri Deheyn is a professor at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego. He leads the Deheyn Lab, where his work focuses on marine biology, environmental health, and materials in the natural world. Dimitri studies how organisms interact with light and color, and he also researches the spread of microplastics and synthetic fiber…
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David Easterbrook is a bonsai artist with over 55 years of experience and a central figure in the development of North American bonsai. He served for more than three decades as curator of the Montreal Botanical Gardens Bonsai Collection, where he helped build one of the most respected public collections on the continent. Trained through early mento…
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What happens when an entire industry rushes forward before science can catch up? In this episode of Ocean Science Radio, we sit down with Dr. Andrew Thaler, deep-sea ecologist and CEO of Blackbeard Biologic, to explore his groundbreaking report for the Convention on Migratory Species that reveals exactly how much we don't know about deep-sea mining…
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Ciaran Brayboy is the Co-founder of Skye Performance and a former Harvard basketball player who received over 30 Division I offers. Ciaran credits much of his competitive edge to the clean nutrition habits he grew up with in a functional-medicine household. When he arrived at Harvard, he was surprised by how processed and sugar-heavy most “performa…
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The Japanese spider crab is harmless to people. But it might not look that way if you happened across it at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean. It can span 12 feet—the largest known crab on the planet. The crab’s hard body is typically about a foot long, and the crab weighs 35 or 40 pounds. It has 10 legs. Eight of them are for walking along rocky oce…
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A special 4-minute reading of "Christmas at Sea", an evocative poem written by Robert Louis Stevenson in 1883. Stevenson, the son of a lighthouse engineer, had intimate, first-hand knowledge of storms, weather, and life on and by the sea. Read for you by World Ocean Radio host Peter Neill. Happy Holidays. Christmas at Sea is an evocative seasonal p…
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For many native Hawaiians, the centerpiece of just about any New Year’s celebration is onaga, a fish that’s also known as ruby snapper or longtail red snapper. It’s served at everything from weddings to birthdays, but it’s especially popular at year-end celebrations—in part because it’s a symbol of good fortune. It’s prized for its light pink flesh…
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This week on a new 5-minute episode of World Ocean Radio we're discussing the word "Hydromancy", its meaning and signs, water in its many forms, and its implication for our future. Hydromancy is an ancient form of divination, an invitation to explore the depths of still water and its ability of reveal hidden truths. About World Ocean Radio World Oc…
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The Franciscana dolphin has quite the schnozz. Its beak is longer in relation to the size of its body than that of any other dolphin or whale—up to 15 percent of the animal’s total length. The Franciscana has another distinction: It’s the only “river dolphin” that doesn’t actually live in freshwater rivers. Instead, it lives in saltwater. It’s foun…
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Grace Keilbach, along with her sister Aria, founded Boonie Babies, a nonprofit rescue based on the island of Saipan in the Mariana Islands archipelago. Together, they document, coordinate, and lead the organization’s efforts to rescue, rehabilitate, and relocate the island’s boonie dogs, descendants of WWII combat dogs that still roam Saipan today.…
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Benjamin Kellett is a UK-born paraglider pilot and adventure flyer who splits his time between Queenstown, New Zealand, and the European Alps. With over a decade of experience in the air, Ben is known for his vol-biv style of travel, flying long-distance with all his camping gear and landing in remote alpine terrain to spend nights in the mountains…
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A type of damsel fish from the other side of the world has invaded the Gulf of Mexico. But it doesn’t appear to be doing much harm to the fish that were already there—at least not so far. The Regal Damselfish comes from the Indian and western Pacific oceans. It’s only about four inches long, and it lives on coral reefs, in shallow coastal waters. T…
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Dr. Brendan Talwar and Dr. Chris Malinowski are marine scientists who have collaborated for more than a decade on conservation, fieldwork, and science communication. Brendan is a National Geographic Explorer and postdoctoral scholar at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, and Chris is the Director of Research & Conservation at the Ocean First Insti…
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This week we are reporting on COP30 (the 30th Conference of the Parties) hosted in Belem, Brazil. The annual gathering is a response to the challenges of climate change; there were wins and losses, enthusiasm and disappointment, and various outcomes and strategies for the future that will be explored in future editions of World Ocean Radio. About W…
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Bob has been the host of a popular radio show broadcast across eastern and central Maine, has served on several economic and business development boards, and is a past member of the Maine House of Representatives. After serving in the Legislature, he began writing columns focused on the Maine outdoors with a particular focus on birds and birding. T…
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Chad Caruso is a professional skateboarder, filmmaker, and content creator best known for setting a Guinness World Record for the fastest cross-country journey across America on a manually powered skateboard. He skated from Venice Beach, California to Virginia Beach in 2023, covering 3,027 miles and 77,000 feet of elevation in just 57 days alone, u…
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The wolves on a small island in Alaska have a diet problem. They’ve wolfed down dangerously high levels of mercury—a result of eating sea otters. Pleasant Island is a mile off the coast of Glacier Bay National Park, in Alaska’s panhandle. Wolves have decimated the island’s population of deer, which used to be their main prey. So the wolves started …
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Cass Verdy is a Netherlands-born travel creator who, after struggling with depression in his late teens and choosing sobriety at nineteen, left his home with €6,000 and relocated to Bali, a place he first connected with during a 2018 trip. There, he spent his early months living in small village rooms, traveling across the island by motorbike, and …
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After nearly two decades of negotiations, the world has finally agreed on a framework to protect the high seas - that vast expanse of ocean beyond any nation's control that covers nearly half our planet's surface. On January 17th, 2026, the BBNJ Agreement (Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction), commonly known as the High Seas Treaty, officiall…
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This week on World Ocean Radio we are reflecting on a time and place no longer familiar: traditions and accepted norms unrecognized, histories forgotten, futures uncertain. How do we recapture standards and beliefs that can contribute to a changing civilization and rapidly changing climate? Are there opportunities for new ways of thinking and actin…
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Bobby Greco is a wildlife biologist and Ph.D. student studying American crocodile conservation in the Dominican Republic. His path began in Connecticut, where he worked on projects ranging from stream salamanders to statewide turtle and snake surveys. Since then, he’s gained global field experience, from researching crocodiles in Belize to working …
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Devastating weather and water events abound worldwide, causing havoc in ports, waterfronts, and elsewhere. These are neither new nor are they going away any time soon. How do we rebuild and plan a response for a future that works, even in the face of increasingly unpredictable climate? About World Ocean Radio World Ocean Radio is a weekly series of…
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In July of 2022, two scientists descended to the Challenger Deep—the deepest spot in the oceans. The first thing they saw on the bottom wasn’t a new species of life or some other exotic wonder. It was a glass beer bottle—sitting seven miles deep. Litter isn’t limited to the giant “garbage patches” on the ocean surface. It’s found on the bottom as w…
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Owen Lombardi is the Chief Marketing Officer at Treka, a cutting-edge platform that connects outdoor travelers with verified local guides for bookable, GPS-enabled adventures. Owen brings deep insight into Treka’s mission to make guided hikes, multi-day treks, and unique experiences more accessible and trustworthy, all while helping guides earn mor…
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Here’s an old saying about nature: Drown a salt marsh, drown a coastline. Okay, we made that one up. But it’s true. And you might hear it more in the future because marshes are threatened by rising sea levels. But a team of researchers has developed a way to know that a marsh is in trouble before it vanishes—providing time to preserve and restore t…
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Tom “The Blowfish” Hird is a UK-based marine biologist, wildlife presenter, and science communicator known for blending heavy-metal energy with ocean education. With a degree in Marine Biology from Bangor University, he has become a familiar face on Discovery’s Shark Week, Netflix’s All The Sharks, and BBC and ITV wildlife programs. His work spans …
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This week Peter Neill, founder of W2O and host of World Ocean Radio, argues that wars, particularly those in the Middle East, are all about the water: rivers, access to the sea: water is the source of life, and of conflict. We all need it in equal measure every day to survive, to thrive, to sustain our nations, cities, agriculture, and ourselves. A…
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Greg is an Associate Professor at the University of Maine, where his research looks at the interplay between humans and the environment, focusing on historical ecology, subsistence economies, agriculture, urbanism, and cosmology. Greg's current research project is in Croatia, where he co-directs the Nadin Gradina Archaeological Project (NGAP) an in…
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Andrea Boccini is an Italian wildlife filmmaker, photographer, and conservation storyteller whose work blurs the line between art and ecology. Trained in scenography and photography at the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence, Andrea began his career in design before devoting himself fully to documenting the fragile balance between humans and the natur…
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The most substantial by-product of human consumption is waste, thus far omitted on balance sheets and in calculation of individual and gross national product. Waste comes in many forms: polluted water, poisoned land, energy lost, habitat destroyed, industrial waste, food discarded, planned obsolescence, even recycling. What remains? The ocean. Whil…
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The sei whale is one of the largest creatures on Earth. Adults can be more than 60 feet long and weigh as much as a fully loaded semi—the third-largest of all whales. And they’re found across the world, in all but the warmest and coldest waters. Yet they’re poorly known, by the public and scientists alike. The sei whale—spelled S-E-I—gets its name …
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Hallie Cowan is a wildlife biologist, photographer, and science communicator pursuing her master’s degree in Wildlife and Fisheries Biology at Clemson University. Her research focuses on mercury contamination in South American caimans, studying how these crocodilians act as bioindicators for ecosystem health. She has conducted fieldwork in Suriname…
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An old hag churns the waters near two islands off the western coast of Scotland. The churning creates the third-largest whirlpool in the oceans—the Gulf of Corryvreckan, or Brecan’s cauldron. Scottish folklore says the Old Hag was the goddess of winter. She stirs the water while washing her plaids. When scientists discovered that a pillar of rock o…
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Randy Thomas is a wildlife biologist, scuba diver, photographer, and filmmaker from Detroit, Michigan. After earning his degree in Environmental Science from the University of Toledo, he found his calling in marine research, working in the Florida Keys and at the Bimini Shark Lab, where he performed shark workups and appeared on Discovery’s Shark A…
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This week on World Ocean Radio, our host Peter Neill is thinking about the word "solastalgia", described as a deep grief over changing landscapes that were once familiar; feeling ‘homesick’ while still being at home, due to rapid alterations to the environment; the stress from experiencing change and loss in the face of rapid, disruptive change. Pe…
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Episode Description What happens when you combine marine biology expertise with immersive art? You get the world's only cartoon aquarium—and it's right here in Portland. Join us as we explore the Portland Aquarium, an innovative art installation that's reimagining ocean education. Artist Mike Bennett and marine biologist Chanel Hason have created a…
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This week on World Ocean Radio we are discussing the September 2025 news that Morocco has become the 60th nation to ratify the High Seas Treaty, a two-decades long process to establish and protect a vast complex of biodiversity in international waters. This is a major milestone and a huge step forward, uniting many rules promoted by many UN agencie…
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Jake Youngblood Dobbs is founder of the community-brand Irrational Optimism and a modern-day adventurer known for undertaking extreme, unconventional trips around the world. His projects center on community building, skill development, and exploring places that challenge Western narratives and perceptions. Jake has lived with the Taliban in Afghani…
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