Podcasts by The Ocean Doctor - David Guggenheim PhD
Down, down, down into the deep blue sea. Meet explorers like the real “Captain Nemo” – only one of two humans to have ventured 7 miles into the deep, hear about Cuba’s underwater mysteries and find out why the new green is blue. Only 5% of our oceans have been explored. The opportunity for adventure, research and knowledge seems unlimited, especially now with a new generation of mini-subs – and even a new, “wearable submarine”! Yet our oceans are dramatically over-fished, threatened by pollution
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The Ocean Doctor – GEORGE JETSON, MEET MOTHER NATURE–THE LATEST IN GREEN TECH AT CES 2012 LAS VEGAS from 2012-01-23T19:01:27
The Ocean Doctor finds himself in an unusual location for a marine biologist: The desert. We visit the Consumer Electronics Show (CES), the largest trade show in the world, to bring you highligh...
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The Ocean Doctor – WHY DOLPHINS MUST BE FREED – A PLEA FROM RIC O’BARRY (“THE COVE”) from 2011-11-14T21:20:50
He was the former trainer of the most famous dolphin of them all, Flipper. There were actually five “Flippers” in all, and when the most well-known of them all, Kathy, died in Ric O’Barry’s arms...
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The Ocean Doctor – THE SECRET RIVER IN THE NATION’S CAPITAL from 2011-10-17T15:47:08
Just 18 blocks from the Capitol dome, a river teeming with American history and spectacular wildlife winds gently southward. But it’s not the well-known Potomac River that’s the subject of today...
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The Ocean Doctor – HAVE WE SAVED THE WHALES? from 2011-09-26T20:09:26
It was a battle cry in the ‘60s and ‘70s — “Save the Whales” bumper stickers reflected a burgeoning green movement and deep concern about the decimation of the world’s whale populations. B...
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The Ocean Doctor – EATING OUR WAY OUT OF THE OCEAN’S PROBLEMS – A CHEF’S PERSPECTIVE from 2011-08-15T15:41:30
Our special guest is National Geographic Fellow and acclaimed chef, author, and speaker Barton Seaver, who seeks to restore our relationship with the ocean, the land, and with each other through...
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The Ocean Doctor – NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC’S NEWEST EXPLORER from 2011-08-02T16:27:39
We visit National Geographic Headquarters in Washington, DC to meet the newest National Geographic “Explorer in Residence,” Dr. Enric Sala and his important work on the “Pristine Seas” program w...
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The Ocean Doctor – 5TH PERIOD AT THE BOTTOM OF NEW YORK HARBOR from 2011-05-24T16:40:30
It’s a high school like no other, where you might be growing oysters during 3rd period and spend 5th period scuba diving at the bottom of New York Harbor. The Urban Assembly New York Harbor Scho...
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The Ocean Doctor – THE FISH YOU’LL EAT TOMORROW from 2011-05-09T05:01:55
They are the maddening questions that haunt us when eating seafood: What fish is safe to eat? What fish is sustainable? Is farmed better than wild caught? Our guest is Marianne Cufone, now Execu...
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The Ocean Doctor – THE GENTLEMAN BIOLOGIST OF PIER 39 from 2011-04-25T15:18:29
Take a walk out to the end of San Francisco’s Pier 39, and you’ll hear an interesting symphony of barking California sea lions and reactions of delight and amusement from droves of human onlooke...
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The Ocean Doctor – THE GREAT PENGUIN RESCUE from 2011-04-05T14:21:57
Our guest this week, the New England Aquarium’s penguin expert, Dyan deNapoli, “The Penguin Lady,” talks about her new book “The Great Penguin Rescue” with important lessons – and hope – for the...
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The Ocean Doctor – ABOARD THE CAPE TO CAPE EXPEDITION: AMAZING JOBS AT THE BOTTOM OF THE PLANET from 2011-03-30T16:10:11
An update on the oil spill at Nightingale Island and the fate of half of the world’s endangered Northern Rockhopper penguin population. Ashore at last on Tristan da Cunha, the most remote inhabi...
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The Ocean Doctor – ABOARD THE CAPE TO CAPE EXPEDITION: DISASTER AT NIGHTINGALE ISLAND from 2011-03-22T17:46:12
The Prince Albert II finds itself in the middle of a rescue mission as its expedition team comes to the rescue of a cargo ship that has run aground at one of the most remote islands in the world...
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The Ocean Doctor – ABOARD THE CAPE TO CAPE EXPEDITION: IN SHACKLETON’S FOOTSTEPS ON SOUTH GEORGIA ISLAND from 2011-03-14T15:01:28
Join the Ocean Doctor aboard the Prince Albert II as he reports from the Cape to Cape Expedition, traveling from the tip of South America to the tip of South Africa. This week we follow Ernest S...
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The Ocean Doctor – ABOARD THE CAPE TO CAPE EXPEDITION: USHUAIA&THE FALKLAND ISLANDS from 2011-03-07T18:19:18
Join the Ocean Doctor aboard the Prince Albert II as he reports from the Cape to Cape Expedition, traveling from the tip of South America to the tip of South Africa. This week, we “land in a pos...
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The Ocean Doctor – KRAKEN—UP CLOSE AND VERY PERSONAL WITH THE GIANT SQUID from 2011-02-28T22:57:43
Few animals provoke the imagination and wonder of the sea like the squid. The giant squid is thought to have been the basis of the myriad of sea monster tales that have been spun over the centur...
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The Ocean Doctor – THE 21st CENTURY ZOO from 2011-02-21T15:05:58
Nearly 80 percent of Americans live in cities or urban areas. Their number one outdoor destination? The zoo. But today’s zoo has evolved far beyond the zoo we may remember from our childhood, to...
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The Ocean Doctor – CSI GOES DEEP from 2011-02-14T18:08:14
Crime Scene Investigation takes to the oceans with “Coral Reef CSI.” The Coral Reef Alliance (CORAL) is now the home of the international Coral Reef CSI program. This new partnership...
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The Ocean Doctor – WHERE’S THE OIL NOW? WHAT’S THE GULF WORTH? THE TOUGH QUESTIONS, ANSWERED from 2011-02-08T00:11:04
We tap into the best and brightest at the National Conference on Science, Policy and the Environment in Washington, DC to get answers to the tough questions. An interview with David Yoskowitz, C...
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The Ocean Doctor – JEAN-MICHEL COUSTEAU ON THE GULF, HIS FATHER, AND OUR OCEANS’FUTURE from 2011-01-31T18:27:54
Our special guest this week is Jean-Michel Cousteau, who leads Ocean Futures Society, a nonprofit marine conservation organization which he founded in 1999 to honor his father’s legacy to ...
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The Ocean Doctor – Saving Our Seas with an eBay Guitar: The Arts and Ocean Literacy from 2011-01-24T18:31:16
Like it or not, our kids are going to inherit an oiled Gulf and a troubled ocean, and their generation will ultimately have to deal with problems we’ve created. But how do we ensure they’re up t...
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The Ocean Doctor – OCEANS ‘11: THE BP OIL SPILL COMMISSION SPEAKS – OCEAN ISSUES TO WATCH from 2011-01-17T22:40:06
The National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling has released its final report. What does it say and what are the lessons from this tragedy? The Ocean Doctor g...
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The Ocean Doctor – Lights, Camera, Walrus! From Beneath the Ice to the Big Screen from 2011-01-11T02:37:45
Award-winning underwater cinematographer, Adam Ravetch works in one of the most unforgiving, hostile environments imaginable: Under the ice in the Arctic. And with camera in hand, he pursues som...
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The Ocean Doctor – HOUSEWIVES OF NEW JERSEY, TAKE NOTE: THIS JERSEY GIRL HAS POWER AND PURPOSE from 2011-01-03T19:37
She describes herself as an ordinary mother of two, but there’s nothing ordinary about Margo Pellegrino, the spirited New Jerseyite who has paddled the East Coast, Gulf Coast and in 2010, the We...
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The Ocean Doctor – THE TOP 10 COUNTDOWN: YOUR FAVORITE EPISODES OF 2010 from 2010-12-28T02:10:20
It’s our end-of-the-year party and retrospective where we count down your top 10 favorite episodes of the year and enjoy highlights from each of them. If you’ve missed any past episodes of “The ...
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The Ocean Doctor – THIS WEEK’S GUEST IS YOU–THE OCEAN DOCTOR LIVE! BROADCAST from 2010-12-20T05:01:07
It’s the premiere of “The Ocean Doctor LIVE!” where YOU are the guest! We get a surprise visit from one of our past guests and talk oceans, coast-to-coast. Also: If I were a Great White, I would...
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The Ocean Doctor – I HEREBY RECLAIM THIS LAND FOR NATURE from 2010-12-13T17:48:05
Mangroves are critically important to our coastlines, to fish, manatees and other ocean wildlife we love. But in South Florida many acres of mangroves were destroyed to make way for waterfront r...
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The Ocean Doctor – JACQUES COUSTEAU, FIDEL CASTRO AND CUBA’S UNDYING PASSION FOR THE SEA from 2010-12-06T16:18:17
Join The Ocean Doctor, along with Ocean Foundation Research Fellow, Fernando Bretos, on a field trip to Havana to visit with Cuba’s next-generation of marine scientists at the University of Hava...
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The Ocean Doctor – DO WE DARE DRILL BENEATH ARCTIC SEAS? from 2010-11-29T15:47:30
Walter Parker, who has accumulated an incredible 55 years of leadership and experience in Alaska’s environmental issues, particularly as a watchdog of Alaska’s oil industry, joins us to sh...
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The Ocean Doctor – THE WAR, THE EXODUS, THE HURRICANE, THE OIL SPILL: ONE GULF COMMUNITY’S DETERMINATION TO ENDURE (PART 2) from 2010-11-22T15:46:23
Village de l’Est, known locally as “Versailles” in New Orleans East, holds the highest concentration of Vietnamese outside of Vietnam. Settled in 1975 by Vietnamese refugees wh...
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The Ocean Doctor – THE WAR, THE EXODUS, THE HURRICANE, THE OIL SPILL: ONE GULF COMMUNITY’S DETERMINATION TO ENDURE (PART 1) from 2010-11-15T19:48:45
Village L’Est, known locally as “Versailles” in New Orleans East, holds the highest concentration of Vietnamese outside of Vietnam. Settled in 1975 by Vietnamese refugees when ...
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The Ocean Doctor – WILD AND CRAZY: A WORM NAMED BOB MARLEY AND THE FISH WITH A SEE-THROUGH HEAD from 2010-11-08T05:01:55
In the oceans, Mother Nature continues to surprise and delight us with mesmerizing, jaw-dropping marine life that often wildly exceeds our imagination. Released at the completion of the decade-l...
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The Ocean Doctor – WHY SAVING THE GULF OF MEXICO STARTS IN OHIO from 2010-11-02T16:50:47
For many of us in the 48 continental United States, what we do in our own back yard — literally — can directly impact what happens in the Gulf of Mexico. Nearly 40 percent of the con...
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The Ocean Doctor – A CRAZY AWESOME WAY TO GET PAID TO CLEAN YOUR CLOSET…AND HELP THE OCEANS from 2010-10-25T15:32:19
What’s lurking in your closet? Chances are there’s a cell phone or two in there, an old laptop and perhaps an iPod? Sadly most electronics waste or “e-waste” ends up in landfills where it can ha...
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The Ocean Doctor – CUBA AND THE U.S. FIND FRIENDSHIP AND HOPE IN THE GULF OF MEXICO from 2010-10-18T20:11:31
After 50 years without formal diplomatic relations and no end to the last vestiges of the Cold War in sight, marine scientists and conservationists have taken matters into their own hands to for...
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The Ocean Doctor – SAILS, SCIENCE&THE SEA: AROUND THE WORLD WITH THE TARA OCEANS EXPEDITION from 2010-10-12T14:15:37
We make contact with the sailing vessel Tara, somewhere off the coast of Africa and learn about Tara Oceans, a project of Tara Expeditions a French nonprofit program. During its last expedition,...
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The Ocean Doctor – SEACAMP: 45 YEARS OF IMMERSIVE EDUCATION THAT WORKS from 2010-10-04T19:24:31
The Ocean Doctor attends the 45th anniversary celebration of Seacamp, a unique marine science summer camp in the Florida Keys that has reached more than 200,000 young hearts and minds through it...
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The Ocean Doctor – CROSSING THE OCEAN SOLO WITH YOUR BARE HANDS: ROZ SAVAGE – PART 2 from 2010-09-27T05:01
In 2005 she left a comfortable life behind to row solo across the Atlantic Ocean. This year she became the first woman to row solo across the Pacific, promoting environmental awareness throughou...
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The Ocean Doctor – CROSSING THE OCEAN SOLO WITH YOUR BARE HANDS: ROZ SAVAGE – PART 1 from 2010-09-20T14:02:11
In 2005 she left a comfortable life behind to row solo across the Atlantic Ocean. This year she became the first woman to row solo across the Pacific, promoting environmental awareness throughou...
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The Ocean Doctor – WHAT EVERYONE SHOULD KNOW ABOUT BOTTLED WATER from 2010-09-13T14:28:33
The truth about bottled water and what you can do about it. Drew McGowan from Brita fills us in with advice on how you can help the planet while helping your wallet. Did you study? Our first pop...
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The Ocean Doctor – BENEATH THE DEADLIEST CATCH: BEAUTY&MAYHEM UNDER THE BERING SEA from 2010-09-06T21:37:14
We return to Alaska’s Bering Sea aboard the Greenpeace ship “Esperanza” and take the DeepWorker 1-person submarine down to nearly 2,000 feet where we’ll find the best and worst things The Ocean ...
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The Ocean Doctor – POLITICS BEFORE SCIENCE? WHAT THE OIL SPILL COMMISSION HAS REVEALED from 2010-08-30T02:37:14
Surprising revelations about agencies that were not consulted prior to the President’s March 2010 expansion of offshore oil drilling. Have the microbes in the Gulf of Mexico consumed the unseen ...
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The Ocean Doctor – DISASTER, DISPERSANTS&DECEPTION IN THE GULF OF MEXICO from 2010-08-23T15:45:19
The Administration claims the “vast majority” of the oil is “gone.” But the latest studies and Congressional hearings say otherwise. How safe is Gulf seafood? What does the future hold? The Ocea...
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The Ocean Doctor – THE LARGEST ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION EVER ATTEMPTED from 2010-08-16T15:58:35
Why success in the Everglades is a key test for our species. Our special guest: Shannon Estenoz, Governing Board Member, South Florida Water Management District and Everglades champion. Also: We...
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The Ocean Doctor – HOW TO SAVE A SHARK from 2010-08-09T16:13:36
You’ve experienced “Shark Week,” now learn the compelling conservation story behind these incredible animals and why it matters with Shark Advocates International president, So...
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The Ocean Doctor – INTO THE SPILL: A HOUSE CALL TO THE GULF–PART 2 from 2010-08-02T15:15:42
The Ocean Doctor makes a house call to the ailing Gulf of Mexico, visiting southern Louisiana in the heart of the Mississippi River delta to learn firsthand the damage wrought by the BP Deepwate...
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The Ocean Doctor – INTO THE SPILL: A HOUSE CALL TO THE GULF–PART 1 from 2010-07-26T14:53:41
The Ocean Doctor makes a house call to the ailing Gulf of Mexico, visiting southern Louisiana in the heart of the Mississippi River delta to learn firsthand the damage wrought by the BP Deepwate...
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The Ocean Doctor – THE OCEAN REVOLUTION IS UNDERWAY! from 2010-07-19T14:05:25
We talk with OceanRevolution founder and co-director, Dr. Wallace “J” Nichols, just back from the Gulf region to hear his firsthand report about the BP oil spill disaster. Also, more on the cont...
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The Ocean Doctor – THE DEADLY TRUTH ABOUT DISPERSANTS IN THE GULF from 2010-07-12T05:01:35
For the first time anywhere, hear the full, uncut story about BP’s unprecedented use of dispersants in the Gulf of Mexico and learn why it’s making a terrible situation far more serious. We hear...
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The Ocean Doctor–WIDE-EYED IN CUBA’S JURASSIC PARK from 2010-07-08T00:07:48
We journey to Cuba to visit some long-lost friends of the deep, along with LOTS of sharks. The awful truth about the oil companies’ ability to deal with oil spills revealed during Congressional ...
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The Ocean Doctor–YOU’RE A SUBMARINE PILOT! from 2010-07-05T05:01:40
“The Ocean Doctor” kicks off by taking you on the series’ first weekly field trip aboard the one-person submersible, the DeepWorker, on a dive to 2,000 feet, to the bottom of Alaska’s Bering Sea...
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