Meet The Ocean

Master storyteller and naturalist Ian Bullock ponders what it means to live life as a penguin in celebration of World Penguin Day 2018.  Meet the Ocean is a listener-supported podcast and nonprofit. Help us continue to create meaningful educational content by donating on our website.  Subscribe to never miss an episode, and share our podcast on your social media to inform your community. www.meettheocean.org

Journey to a remote Arctic Tern nesting site to learn how marine biologist Jamie Coleman survived his scientific duties.  Meet the Ocean is a listener-supported podcast and nonprofit. Help us continue to create meaningful educational content by donating on our website.  Subscribe to never miss an episode, and share our podcast on your social media to inform your community. www.meettheocean.org

Upon the tall ships of the Sea Education Association (S.E.A.), students learn to become sail savvy deckhands, while taking part in hands-on ocean science research. Join Dr. Jeff Schell on a windblown journey into the Sargasso Sea, where floating kelp islands provide habitat for a drifting ecosystem. Learn what Columbus thought on his first encounter, and what it means to be part of a shipboard community when no land is in sight. Stand watch, navigate by the stars, and discover the oddities and intricacies of kelp! Meet the Ocean is a listener-supported 501c3 nonprofit. Help us continue to create by donating on our website.  Subscribe to never miss an episode and share our podcast to inform your community. www.meettheocean.org

Argentinian marine biologist Dr. Rodolfo Werner discusses his work with the Antarctic Southern Ocean Coalition (ASOC) to defend the small crustaceans against overfishing. Krill are a primary food source for penguins, whales, seals, and a host of other creatures living in the waters surrounding Antarctica. Protecting them is a necessary priority for the Southern Ocean food web to remain intact. Meet the Ocean is a listener-supported 501c3 nonprofit. Help us continue to create by donating on our website.  Subscribe to never miss an episode and share our podcast to inform your community. www.meettheocean.org

Naturalist and filmmaker Alberto Montaudon Ferrer shares his origins exploring Mexico's Pacific coast. He speaks of his deep affection for the peninsula of Baja California while warning of the near-extinction of a small porpoise native to its waters - the Vaquita. Meet the Ocean is a listener-supported 501c3 nonprofit. Help us continue to create by donating on our website.  Subscribe to never miss an episode and share our podcast to inform your community. www.meettheocean.org

Two of the best in the business of being underwater share their views of the wonders of a lifetime spent capturing images, while speaking to the ongoing changes facing ocean ecosystems around the planet.    The scientists of the Alaska Whale Foundation share their research, rescue efforts, and meaningful interactions with the marine mammals that travel the dotting islands of Southeast Alaska.  Meet the Ocean is a listener-supported 501c3 nonprofit. Help us continue to create by donating on our website.  Subscribe to never miss an episode and share our podcast to inform your community. www.meettheocean.org

The scientists of the Alaska Whale Foundation share their research, rescue efforts, and meaningful interactions with the marine mammals that travel the dotting islands of Southeast Alaska.  Meet the Ocean is a listener-supported 501c3 nonprofit. Help us continue to create by donating on our website.  Subscribe to never miss an episode and share our podcast to inform your community. www.meettheocean.org

Stories from an Arctic Search and Rescue officer, a polar naturalist, and an abstract German artist as they all share the search for the elusive white bears of Svalbard.  Meet the Ocean is a listener-supported 501c3 nonprofit. Help us continue to create by donating on our website.  Subscribe to never miss an episode and share our podcast to inform your community. www.meettheocean.org

Pulitzer Prize winning photojournalist Jay Dickman shares his origins from trailing up-and-coming rock bands like Led Zeppelin to his journey to the pages of National Geographic. Plus scientist Skye Moret describes how light works in the ocean.  Meet the Ocean is a listener-supported 501c3 nonprofit. Help us continue to create by donating on our website.  Subscribe to never miss an episode and share our podcast to inform your community. www.meettheocean.org

From the early days of underwater exploration to modern deep-sea expeditions in the company of James Cameron, Dr. Joe Macinnis has spent a lifetime testing himself and a generation of divers and deep-sea submersibles against the unknowns of ocean exploration. Hear him share his story. Meet the Ocean is a listener-supported 501c3 nonprofit. Help us continue to create by donating on our website.  Subscribe to never miss an episode and share our podcast to inform your community. www.meettheocean.org

Polar Divers Caitlyn Webster and Robert Alexander muse on what happens to the human body when underwater at the edge of our planet. Plus Acoustic Ecologist Michelle Fournet describes her encounters with the Weddell Seals of Antarctica. Meet the Ocean is a listener-supported 501c3 nonprofit. Help us continue to create by donating on our website.  Subscribe to never miss an episode and share our podcast to inform your community. www.meettheocean.org

Hear what it's like to study Killer Whales in the Southern Ocean from Drs. John Durban & Holly Fernbach. Using skillful drone work and a technique called photogrammetry, new noninvasive research has become available to inform on how these creatures thrive at the bottom of our planet. Meet the Ocean is a listener-supported 501c3 nonprofit. Help us continue to create by donating on our website.  Subscribe to never miss an episode and share our podcast to inform your community. www.meettheocean.org

Why are penguins called penguins? How do they live in Antarctica exactly? Discover the answer to these questions and more in our very first World Penguin Day episode. Meet the Ocean is a listener-supported 501c3 nonprofit. Help us continue to create by donating on our website.  Subscribe to never miss an episode and share our podcast to inform your community. www.meettheocean.org

Our premiere episode features naturalist and master storyteller Ian Bullock who employs his memory and attention to detail to recreate the creatures he encounters by painting.  Ian is a member of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds and an inspiring defender of the natural world. Meet the Ocean is a listener-supported 501c3 nonprofit. Help us continue to create by donating on our website.  Subscribe to never miss an episode and share our podcast to inform your community. www.meettheocean.org