Ocean Currents Radio Program

Ocean Currents Radio Program

126 episodes

Ocean Currents is hosted by Cordell Bank National Marine Sanctuary on KWMR, community radio for West Marin in Northern California. The show hosts ocean experts about research, management issues, natural history, and stewardship associated with marine environment, especially in our National Marine Sanctuaries.

Podcasts

Ocean Currents sheltering in place during Covid

Published: Feb. 18, 2021, 6:06 p.m.
Duration: 6 seconds

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The Ocean as a Solution to Climate Change: Five Opportunities for Action

Published: March 3, 2020, 11:06 p.m.
Duration: 52 minutes

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Broadcast live from the E/V Nautilus:Ocean Currents reporting from afar!

Published: Jan. 17, 2020, 11:17 p.m.
Duration: 30 minutes 45 seconds

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Velellas ashore! and protecting the lower end of the ocean food web in CA

Published: Jan. 17, 2020, 5:56 p.m.
Duration: 53 minutes

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Looking upstream for solutions to reduce marine debris and carbon emissions: Recycling 101

Published: Feb. 13, 2019, 8:57 p.m.
Duration: 49 minutes

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Helping Kelp on the Northcoast of California

Published: Feb. 6, 2019, 8:43 p.m.
Duration: 48 minutes 43 seconds

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More Sex in the Sea!

Published: Dec. 19, 2018, 9:11 p.m.
Duration: 40 minutes 9 seconds

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Hope for People and the Ocean

Published: Dec. 19, 2018, 8:21 p.m.
Duration: 57 minutes 49 seconds

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Slowfish and hiking the California Coastal Trail

Published: June 21, 2018, 12:02 a.m.
Duration: 44 minutes

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Heirs to our Oceans-youth taking on ocean awareness and conservation

Published: May 15, 2018, 7:44 p.m.
Duration: 46 minutes

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Tomales Bay: whats going on upstream and downstream

Published: April 11, 2018, 12:41 a.m.
Duration: 52 minutes

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The Return of Harbor Porpoise to San Francisco Bay

Published: March 7, 2018, 11:26 p.m.
Duration: 51 minutes

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Sea Foraging the Northern California Coast

Published: March 1, 2018, 6:55 p.m.
Duration: 38 minutes

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Wheres all the Sand going?

Published: Jan. 12, 2018, 8:31 p.m.
Duration: 47 minutes

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California Marine Protected Areas-5 years after implementation-where are we now?

Published: Nov. 7, 2017, 1:23 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes

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Sex in the Sea

Published: Sept. 11, 2017, 5:03 p.m.
Duration: 50 minutes

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Do plastics in the ocean smell like food to ocean seabirds?

Published: May 9, 2017, 7:08 p.m.
Duration: 55 minutes

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Restorative 3_D Ocean Farming

Published: March 20, 2017, 10:02 p.m.
Duration: 42 minutes

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West Coast Rockfish Conservation Areas

Published: Dec. 20, 2016, 12:22 a.m.
Duration: 48 minutes 13 seconds

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The Vital Role of Krill in our World Ocean

Published: Nov. 23, 2016, 8:04 p.m.
Duration: 44 minutes

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Blue Carbon: Why restoring coastal wetlands can help combat climate change

Published: Oct. 5, 2016, 7:54 p.m.
Duration: 50 minutes

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Seamount protections proposed and explorations in the Greater Farallones National Marine Sanctuaries

Published: Aug. 8, 2016, 9:53 p.m.
Duration: 46 minutes

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Greater Farallones Sanctuary Update

Published: Aug. 8, 2016, 9:51 p.m.
Duration: 14 minutes 25 seconds

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Restoring White Abalone: from the lab back to the wild

Published: May 3, 2016, 12:03 a.m.
Duration: 47 minutes 16 seconds

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Management of the High Seas

Published: March 14, 2016, 5:50 p.m.
Duration: 37 minutes

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Nasty Neurtoxins

Published: Feb. 2, 2016, 1:13 a.m.
Duration: 52 minutes

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Shipwrecks off the Golden Gate and Sharktober 2015

Published: Nov. 3, 2015, 1:15 a.m.
Duration: 51 minutes

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What may El Nino bring to CA 2015/2016

Published: Oct. 27, 2015, 4:40 p.m.
Duration: 22 minutes

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Blue Mind

Published: Aug. 11, 2015, 10 p.m.
Duration: 51 minutes

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Paleooceonography studies reveals historic ocean conditions that we may be headed towards

Published: July 8, 2015, 7:21 p.m.
Duration: 25 minutes

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2 part show: Free Beaches on Sonoma Coast at risk and microbeads in the ocean, turning the tide

Published: July 8, 2015, 7:01 p.m.
Duration: 57 minutes

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Impacts of Desalination Plants on coastal ocean habitats

Published: April 14, 2015, 9:05 p.m.
Duration: 52 minutes

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Drift Gillnet Fishery in Southern CA

Published: March 26, 2015, 12:16 a.m.
Duration: 55 minutes 10 seconds

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The Human Shore: Seacoasts in History

Published: Feb. 3, 2015, 5:51 p.m.
Duration: 52 minutes

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Whats does the future hold for Abalone in CA?

Published: Nov. 20, 2014, 11:11 p.m.
Duration: 40 minutes

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Ocean Wonders Ocean Wellness

Published: Oct. 9, 2014, 4:49 p.m.
Duration: 48 minutes 34 seconds

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Disentangling whales in CA and summer 2014 offshore research highlights

Published: Sept. 3, 2014, 11:16 p.m.
Duration: 58 minutes

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Exploring the ocean by freediving and a summer 2014 update on El Nino

Published: Sept. 3, 2014, 11:11 p.m.
Duration: 55 minutes

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California Coastal National Monument

Published: May 29, 2014, 6:06 p.m.
Duration: 48 minutes

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Fukushima fallout in California?

Published: April 10, 2014, 9:02 p.m.
Duration: 52 minutes

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Monitoring Marin's MPA's, Sea Star Wasting Event, San Francisco International Ocean Film Festival

Published: March 7, 2014, 10:10 p.m.
Duration: 51 minutes 27 seconds

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Diving Cordell Bank

Published: March 7, 2014, 10:08 p.m.
Duration: 45 minutes

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The Ocean and the Arts

Published: Nov. 5, 2013, 11:44 p.m.
Duration: 48 minutes

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Surviving the Shark: How a Brutal Great White Attack Turned a Surfer into a Dedicated Defender of Sharks

Published: Oct. 23, 2013, 12:04 a.m.
Duration: 35 minutes 20 seconds

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White Sharks around Point Reyes, CA

Published: Oct. 22, 2013, 11:51 p.m.
Duration: 55 minutes

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Discussion with Liz Cunningham, author of upcoming book Ocean Country and latest ocean update from Jaime Jahnke

Published: Aug. 7, 2013, 6:22 p.m.
Duration: 55 minutes 35 seconds

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Whale fall communities on the seafloor-how does nature recycle something as large as a dead whale?

Published: July 19, 2013, 6:02 p.m.
Duration: 51 minutes

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Saving the Sonoma Mendocino Coast from Oil and Gas Exploration

Published: April 2, 2013, 10:58 p.m.
Duration: 54 minutes

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Lights, Camera, Ocean! Highlights from the San Francisco International Ocean Film Festival 2013

Published: March 6, 2013, 8:19 p.m.
Duration: 50 minutes 22 seconds

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Sanctuary Expansion; First Scoping meeting and Elephant Seal season 2013

Published: Feb. 5, 2013, 11:14 p.m.
Duration: 52 minutes 24 seconds

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Marine Protected Areas, Sanctuary Expansion, and Remembering Rich Stallcup

Published: Jan. 16, 2013, 7:10 p.m.
Duration: 42 minutes

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Shipstrikes and whales

Published: Dec. 13, 2012, 11:23 p.m.
Duration: 56 minutes

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Tiny and Mighty!: Phytoplankton

Published: Dec. 13, 2012, 9:28 p.m.
Duration: 46 minutes

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State of Marine Debris in CA, 2012

Published: Nov. 7, 2012, 4:59 p.m.
Duration: 45 minutes

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The Ocean Inside

Published: July 18, 2012, 6:09 p.m.
Duration: 44 minutes 57 seconds

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Farallon Island update and Bluemind Symposium

Published: May 10, 2012, 5:19 p.m.
Duration: 48 minutes

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Ocean Leadership

Published: April 3, 2012, 6:59 p.m.
Duration: 55 minutes 13 seconds

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Tsunamis and the aftermath of marine debris

Published: March 12, 2012, 5:19 p.m.
Duration: 49 minutes 31 seconds

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Dr. Jim Delgado-Maritime Heritage: A Cultural Landscape

Published: Feb. 8, 2012, 7:31 p.m.
Duration: 51 minutes 51 seconds

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Meet Barbara Emley, San Francisco fisherman

Published: Dec. 15, 2011, 10:12 p.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 24 seconds

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Abalone on the Sonoma Coast

Published: Nov. 9, 2011, 5:13 p.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 21 seconds

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Pathstar program and Sooty Shearwaters

Published: Nov. 9, 2011, 5:12 p.m.
Duration: 24 minutes 51 seconds

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Part One-Indigenous Cultures and Ocean Resource Management-a workshop in American Samoa

Published: Sept. 23, 2011, 7:38 p.m.
Duration: 29 minutes

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Part Two-Indigenous Cultures and Ocean Resource Management-a workshop in American Samoa

Published: Sept. 23, 2011, 7:38 p.m.
Duration: 29 minutes

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"Flotsametrics" what we can learn by tracking currents via shoreline debris?

Published: Aug. 3, 2011, 7:45 p.m.
Duration: 51 minutes 36 seconds

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How does the ocean affect weather?

Published: June 10, 2011, 7:12 p.m.
Duration: 50 minutes

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Ocean Noise

Published: June 3, 2011, 5:42 p.m.
Duration: 49 minutes 49 seconds

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Ocean Conditions, Summer, 2010

Published: Oct. 8, 2010, 10:45 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 2 minutes 58 seconds

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Climate Change Impacts

Published: July 7, 2010, 9:52 p.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 1 second

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White Sharks off the Marin Coast

Published: June 21, 2010, 9:11 p.m.
Duration: 54 minutes

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Watershed Education at West Marin School

Published: June 21, 2010, 9:07 p.m.
Duration: 51 minutes 37 seconds

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Wave Energy

Published: April 6, 2010, 6:45 p.m.
Duration: 55 minutes

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Post Exxon Valdez Oil Spill

Published: March 3, 2010, 12:56 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes

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West Coast Ecosystem Based Management

Published: Feb. 2, 2010, 9:15 p.m.
Duration: 50 minutes 46 seconds

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Whats happening on the coast?

Published: Jan. 7, 2010, 9:24 p.m.
Duration: 19 minutes 12 seconds

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National Marine Sanctuaries around the United States

Published: Jan. 7, 2010, 1:45 a.m.
Duration: 45 minutes

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Loggerhead Turtle Conservation work and Building Ocean Stewards Globally

Published: Nov. 3, 2009, 9:16 p.m.
Duration: 55 minutes

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Studying environmental change with deep water corals

Published: Nov. 3, 2009, 9:14 p.m.
Duration: 52 minutes

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Cordell Expeditions: The early explorations of Cordell Bank

Published: June 1, 2009, 11:16 p.m.
Duration: 2 days 8 hours

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Dan Bortolloti: Author of Wild Blue: A Natural History of the World's Largest Animal

Published: June 1, 2009, 11:16 p.m.
Duration: 57 minutes

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Jaime Jahncke, PRBO Conservation Science and Lisa Etherington, Cordell Bank National Marine Sanctuary

Published: May 21, 2009, 12:20 a.m.
Duration: 40 minutes

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Dr. John Hildebrand-Ambient Noise in the Ocean

Published: March 5, 2009, 6:19 p.m.
Duration: 58 minutes 23 seconds

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Dr. Liz Alter-Studying historic Gray Whale populations

Published: Feb. 10, 2009, 5:42 p.m.
Duration: 40 minutes 45 seconds

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Leatherbacks in the Pacific

Published: Jan. 8, 2009, 5:40 p.m.
Duration: 52 minutes

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Roz Savage Rows the Pacific

Published: Jan. 7, 2009, 5:25 p.m.
Duration: 48 seconds

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Ocean Literacy-What do citizens need to know about the ocean?

Published: Nov. 10, 2008, 10:47 p.m.
Duration: 2 days 4 hours 7 minutes

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Historic Ecology:Looking at the past to learn about the future.

Published: Aug. 5, 2008, 9:24 p.m.
Duration: 56 minutes

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Historic Ecology: Looking at the past to learn about the future.

Published: July 8, 2008, 11:53 p.m.
Duration: 53 minutes

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Randall Arauz-PRETOMA

Published: June 3, 2008, 6:03 p.m.
Duration: 46 minutes 35 seconds

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David Mattila-Humpback Whales in the North Pacific

Published: May 7, 2008, 5:54 p.m.
Duration: 54 minutes

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Dr. Milton Love

Published: May 1, 2008, 10 p.m.
Duration: 49 minutes 59 seconds

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Seafood Watch: Sheila Bowman, Monterey Bay Aquarium

Published: May 1, 2008, 9:56 p.m.
Duration: 43 minutes 57 seconds

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Peter White: History of the Farallon Islands

Published: May 1, 2008, 9:43 p.m.
Duration: 51 minutes 39 seconds

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Part 2: California Marine Life Protection Act Update

Published: May 1, 2008, 9:26 p.m.
Duration: 17 minutes 1 second

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Part 1: California Marine Life Protection Act Update

Published: May 1, 2008, 9:10 p.m.
Duration: 25 minutes 45 seconds

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Captain Charles Moore talks about plastic in the Pacific Gyre

Published: May 1, 2008, 9:04 p.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 7 seconds

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Sanctuary Expansion Bill update

Published: May 1, 2008, 9 p.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 50 seconds

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Who Glows There?-Dr. Steven Haddock of the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute talks about Bioluminescence

Published: May 1, 2008, 8:52 p.m.
Duration: 49 minutes 27 seconds

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Tom Kendrick-Author of Blue Water Goldrush , former sea urchin commercial diver and surfer

Published: May 1, 2008, 8:33 p.m.
Duration: 29 minutes 14 seconds

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Part 2: Behind the Scenes Research at Cordell Bank National Marine Sanctuary

Published: May 1, 2008, 8:29 p.m.
Duration: 29 minutes 59 seconds

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Part 1: Behind the Scenes Research at Cordell Bank National Marine Sanctuary

Published: May 1, 2008, 8:29 p.m.
Duration: 26 minutes 32 seconds

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Ray Bandar, " A Life with Skulls" and filmmaker Beth Cataldo

Published: May 1, 2008, 8:19 p.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 26 seconds

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Roz Savage-open ocean rower and Jim Farley from the Marin County Fair

Published: May 1, 2008, 12:27 a.m.
Duration: 50 minutes 44 seconds

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Reverend Deborah Streeter, leader of Upwellings Ministry and Associate Film Producer David McGuire

Published: May 1, 2008, 12:22 a.m.
Duration: 50 minutes

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Author Lynne Cox - Open Water Swimmer

Published: May 1, 2008, 12:21 a.m.
Duration: 40 minutes

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Dr. Tierney Thys-Marine Biologist/Filmmaker: Everything you wanted to know about the ocean sunfish (Mola mola)

Published: May 1, 2008, 12:20 a.m.
Duration: 49 minutes 25 seconds

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Dr. John Largier, Oceanographer with University of California, Bodega Marine Lab

Published: May 1, 2008, 12:04 a.m.
Duration: 50 minutes

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Exploring Davidson Seamount off of Monterey, California

Published: April 30, 2008, 11:44 p.m.
Duration: 44 minutes 52 seconds

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Elephant Seals at Point Reyes National Seashore

Published: April 30, 2008, 11:42 p.m.
Duration: 56 minutes

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Introducing the new Northwestern Hawaiian Islands Marine National Monument

Published: April 30, 2008, 11:36 p.m.
Duration: 45 minutes 43 seconds

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Management Plan Review for Cordell Bank, Gulf of the Farallones, and Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuaries

Published: April 30, 2008, 11:36 p.m.
Duration: 42 minutes 50 seconds

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Dive into Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary and the San Francisco Ocean Film Festival

Published: April 30, 2008, 11:35 p.m.
Duration: 53 minutes

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Plastics Are Forever

Published: April 10, 2008, 11:52 p.m.
Duration: 45 minutes 43 seconds

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Minke Whales

Published: April 10, 2008, 11:40 p.m.
Duration: 51 minutes 43 seconds

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Tracking Pelagics: Dr. David Hyrenbach

Published: April 10, 2008, 11:23 p.m.
Duration: 50 seconds

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