NOAA Ocean Podcast
From corals to coastal science, connect with NOAA experts in our podcast series that explores questions about the ocean environment.Podcasts
Weird Facts About Oil and Oil Spills
Published: Sept. 29, 2023, 6:14 p.m.Duration: 21 minutes 20 seconds
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The Florida Keys: Dive into History
Published: Sept. 7, 2023, 11:30 a.m.Duration: 19 minutes 19 seconds
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Digging into the Science of Sand
Published: July 31, 2023, 11:08 a.m.Duration: 12 minutes 48 seconds
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Rip Currents: Preparedness and Prevention
Published: June 29, 2023, 12:51 p.m.Duration: 13 minutes 38 seconds
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Gliders: Versatile Vehicles for Underwater Observation
Published: May 31, 2023, 2:45 p.m.Duration: 7 minutes 21 seconds
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USACE: Foundational Research on Rebalancing with Blue Carbon
Published: April 27, 2023, 2:58 p.m.Duration: 36 minutes 35 seconds
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Seagrass: Ecosystem Services Provider
Published: March 30, 2023, 1:42 p.m.Duration: 8 minutes 54 seconds
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Perspectives on Coastal Decision Making
Published: Jan. 26, 2023, 2:15 p.m.Duration: 24 minutes 40 seconds
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Making Coastal Decisions
Published: Dec. 15, 2022, 12:15 p.m.Duration: 19 minutes 40 seconds
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Equity and Justice in Coastal Planning
Published: Nov. 17, 2022, 1:58 p.m.Duration: 22 minutes 22 seconds
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Capturing Snapshots of the U.S. Population
Published: Sept. 20, 2022, 1:13 p.m.Duration: 8 minutes 31 seconds
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Understanding Disease Impacts to Long-Spined Sea Urchins
Published: July 28, 2022, 12:53 p.m.Duration: 12 minutes 3 seconds
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Surveying in the Great Lakes
Published: May 26, 2022, 12:53 p.m.Duration: 10 minutes 15 seconds
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Engineering with Nature: USACE, NOAA, and the Value of Partnership
Published: April 28, 2022, 11:50 a.m.Duration: 38 minutes 33 seconds
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Water Level Stations and their Role in Tsunami Detection
Published: March 31, 2022, 11:34 a.m.Duration: 6 minutes 11 seconds
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Connecticut National Estuarine Research Reserve: A Living Laboratory
Published: Feb. 24, 2022, 5 p.m.Duration: 7 minutes 51 seconds
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2022 Sea Level Rise Technical Report
Published: Feb. 15, 2022, 5 p.m.Duration: 17 minutes 21 seconds
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The Future Ocean
Published: Dec. 16, 2021, 1:46 p.m.Duration: 26 minutes 14 seconds
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Restoration: Replacing What Was Lost
Published: Nov. 9, 2021, 12:13 p.m.Duration: 14 minutes 26 seconds
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Connecting the Dots with Modeling (Part Two)
Published: June 17, 2021, 12:37 p.m.Duration: 12 minutes 18 seconds
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Connecting the Dots with Modeling (Part One)
Published: May 20, 2021, 5:30 p.m.Duration: 16 minutes 23 seconds
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NOAA Custom Chart Tool
Published: April 15, 2021, 12:17 p.m.Duration: 13 minutes 48 seconds
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A Laser is Worth a Thousand Words
Published: March 25, 2021, 12:01 p.m.Duration: 13 minutes 48 seconds
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Explore Your Ocean with NOAA Ocean Today
Published: March 4, 2021, 2:58 p.m.Duration: 13 minutes 48 seconds
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Shipwrecks, Science, and Stewardship at Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary
Published: Jan. 14, 2021, 12:40 p.m.Duration: 13 minutes 55 seconds
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Protecting Culebra's Coral Reefs
Published: Dec. 8, 2020, 4:09 p.m.Duration: 16 minutes 8 seconds
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Precision Marine Navigation
Published: Oct. 29, 2020, 12:23 p.m.Duration: 12 minutes 31 seconds
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The Microplastic-Mussel Connection: Part Two
Published: Sept. 30, 2020, noonDuration: 14 minutes 57 seconds
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The Microplastic-Mussel Connection: Part One
Published: Sept. 30, 2020, noonDuration: 16 minutes 56 seconds
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From Diving to Data: Close-up with Coral Research
Published: Aug. 27, 2020, 11:49 a.m.Duration: 17 minutes 51 seconds
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Turning the Tide: D-Day from an Oceanographer's Perspective
Published: June 24, 2020, 3:27 p.m.Duration: 17 minutes 51 seconds
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Education Resources
Published: April 24, 2020, 11:38 a.m.Duration: 11 minutes 28 seconds
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Understanding Gravity
Published: March 19, 2020, 1:30 p.m.Duration: 12 minutes 26 seconds
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Bringing Wetlands to Market
Published: Feb. 20, 2020, 1:12 p.m.Duration: 12 minutes 26 seconds
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The Nurdle Patrol: Citizen Scientists Fight Pollution, One Pellet at a Time
Published: Jan. 23, 2020, 1:51 p.m.Duration: 12 minutes 26 seconds
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After a Hurricane Hits: NOAAs Emergency Response Aerial Imagery
Published: Dec. 17, 2019, 4:29 p.m.Duration: 11 minutes 29 seconds
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The Nautical Origins of 10 Popular Phrases
Published: Oct. 23, 2019, 12:48 p.m.Duration: 4 minutes 50 seconds
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NOAA's Disaster Preparedness Program
Published: Aug. 7, 2019, 12:32 p.m.Duration: 9 minutes 10 seconds
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Meteotsunamis: State of the Science
Published: July 11, 2019, 12:32 p.m.Duration: 10 minutes 13 seconds
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Ocean Gliders: How NOAA uses autonomous technology to help predict hurricane intensity
Published: May 30, 2019, 7:14 p.m.Duration: 6 minutes 5 seconds
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Navigating the Sea is Safer, More Efficient With Digital Charts
Published: April 25, 2019, 8:25 p.m.Duration: 8 minutes 7 seconds
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Making it Count
Published: March 21, 2019, 12:26 p.m.Duration: 6 minutes 44 seconds
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Lionfish Invasion
Published: Feb. 28, 2019, 8:14 p.m.Duration: 6 minutes 44 seconds
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Faa Samoa: The Samoan Way (Part One)
Published: Dec. 4, 2018, 1:37 p.m.Duration: 8 hours 52 minutes
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Faa Samoa: The Samoan Way (Part Two)
Published: Dec. 4, 2018, 1:21 p.m.Duration: 8 hours 12 minutes
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All About HABS: Uncovering the Mystery of Harmful Algal Blooms
Published: Nov. 14, 2018, 6:02 p.m.Duration: 12 hours 52 minutes
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Breaking Down Barriers: Natural Infrastructure
Published: June 28, 2018, 11:52 a.m.Duration: 14 minutes 47 seconds
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National Ocean Service's Role in Hurricane Prep, Response, and Recovery
Published: May 24, 2018, 12:47 p.m.Duration: 6 minutes 37 seconds
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Motion in the Ocean: Tides and Currents
Published: April 26, 2018, 11:40 a.m.Duration: 19 minutes 27 seconds
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Garbage Patches: How Gyres Take Our Trash Out to Sea
Published: March 22, 2018, 1:35 p.m.Duration: 10 minutes 3 seconds
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Dealing with Dead Zones: Hypoxia in the Ocean
Published: Feb. 22, 2018, 1:50 p.m.Duration: 18 minutes 40 seconds
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Geodesy: The Invisible Backbone of Navigation
Published: Jan. 18, 2018, 1:09 p.m.Duration: 14 minutes 59 seconds
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Marine Debris in Alaska
Published: Nov. 16, 2017, 1:25 p.m.Duration: 4 minutes 55 seconds
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Ocean Current Surveys 101
Published: July 27, 2017, 1:33 p.m.Duration: 2 minutes 56 seconds
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Historical Maps and Charts
Published: July 21, 2017, 6:12 p.m.Duration: 2 minutes 56 seconds
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Celebrating 100 Years of NOAA Corps
Published: May 25, 2017, 3:15 p.m.Duration: 9 minutes 41 seconds
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Marine Animal Telemetry
Published: May 11, 2017, 12:38 p.m.Duration: 5 minutes 39 seconds
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Restoration at Industrial Waste Sites
Published: May 4, 2017, 2:30 p.m.Duration: 13 minutes 49 seconds
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Volunteering with our National Marine Sanctuaries
Published: April 17, 2017, 1:25 p.m.Duration: 4 minutes 23 seconds
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Picking the Right Spot: Offshore Wind Energy
Published: March 1, 2017, 2:07 p.m.Duration: 15 minutes 58 seconds
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Marine Life Counts: The U.S. Marine Biodiversity Observation Network
Published: Jan. 19, 2017, 1:24 p.m.Duration: 15 minutes 58 seconds
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Listen up: What you need to know about ocean noise.
Published: Dec. 8, 2016, 2:03 p.m.Duration: 13 minutes 53 seconds
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Reef Resilience
Published: Sept. 22, 2016, 1:15 p.m.Duration: 17 minutes 6 seconds
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Connecting the Dots: Corals and Humans
Published: Sept. 15, 2016, 11:58 a.m.Duration: 6 minutes 1 second
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Bringing Wetlands to Market: the Power of Blue Carbon in a Changing Climate
Published: Aug. 4, 2016, 2:40 p.m.Duration: 13 minutes 6 seconds
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Microplastics
Published: June 30, 2016, 12:33 p.m.Duration: 15 minutes 36 seconds
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Harmful Algal Bloom Forecasting
Published: May 5, 2016, 2:02 p.m.Duration: 3 minutes 40 seconds
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Remembering the Titanic
Published: April 15, 2016, 12:27 p.m.Duration: 4 minutes 15 seconds
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Living Shorelines
Published: April 7, 2016, 4:13 p.m.Duration: 16 minutes 58 seconds
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Connecting the Dots Between Corals and Humans
Published: March 24, 2016, 12:33 p.m.Duration: 15 minutes 31 seconds
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Shipwreck Detective
Published: Feb. 17, 2016, 3:01 p.m.Duration: 4 minutes 15 seconds
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Alaska: Marine Debris in the Wilderness
Published: Jan. 28, 2016, 7:55 p.m.Duration: 15 minutes 31 seconds
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How Invasive Species Are Introduced
Published: Jan. 21, 2016, 1:50 p.m.Duration: 4 minutes 15 seconds
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Exploring Hawaii's Coral Reefs
Published: Dec. 3, 2015, 3:14 p.m.Duration: 22 minutes 9 seconds
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Marine Debris Movement
Published: Nov. 24, 2015, 1:47 p.m.Duration: 4 minutes 36 seconds
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A Healthy Eelgrass Meadow is Restored
Published: Oct. 29, 2015, 12:49 p.m.Duration: 4 minutes 27 seconds
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Nuisance Flooding
Published: Oct. 22, 2015, 7:32 p.m.Duration: 15 minutes 8 seconds
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Vertical Mapping and Atomic Clocks
Published: Sept. 24, 2015, 1:29 p.m.Duration: 12 minutes 53 seconds
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Hurricane Katrina: 10 Years Later
Published: Aug. 27, 2015, 1:14 p.m.Duration: 22 minutes 47 seconds
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Ocean Economy
Published: June 25, 2015, 12:24 p.m.Duration: 13 minutes 45 seconds
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GPS on Bench Marks
Published: April 16, 2015, 12:22 p.m.Duration: 9 minutes 35 seconds
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Exploring the Unknown in the Caribbean
Published: April 1, 2015, 1:29 p.m.Duration: 21 minutes
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Four Corners
Published: March 19, 2015, 12:17 p.m.Duration: 4 minutes 20 seconds
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Invasive Species
Published: Feb. 26, 2015, 2:20 p.m.Duration: 19 minutes 18 seconds
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Coastal Blue Carbon
Published: Feb. 12, 2015, 2:33 p.m.Duration: 4 minutes 20 seconds
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Shipwreck Detectives in California
Published: Jan. 15, 2015, 1:29 p.m.Duration: 20 minutes
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Coral Bleaching
Published: Dec. 1, 2014, 8:07 p.m.Duration: 24 minutes 55 seconds
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Great Pacific Garbage Patch
Published: June 26, 2014, 11:46 a.m.Duration: 8 minutes 57 seconds
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The Exxon Valdez, 25 Years Later
Published: March 21, 2014, 12:07 p.m.Duration: 15 minutes 3 seconds
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Tides and Currents
Published: March 18, 2014, 6:28 p.m.Duration: 12 minutes 26 seconds
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The Intracoastal Waterway
Published: Feb. 20, 2014, 3:31 p.m.Duration: 10 minutes 53 seconds
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Invasive Lionfish
Published: Feb. 6, 2014, 7:22 p.m.Duration: 3 minutes 40 seconds
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Planning Ocean Uses
Published: Jan. 30, 2014, 6:01 p.m.Duration: 8 minutes 20 seconds
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Restoring Natural Resources
Published: Jan. 16, 2014, 3:56 p.m.Duration: 3 minutes 21 seconds
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