Ocean Gazing

Series produced by Ari Daniel

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Tracking the real-time swirl of creatures, chemicals, and currents of our seas.

Tracking the real-time swirl of creatures, chemicals, and currents of our seas.


52 Pieces

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A River Runs Through It All
From: Ari Daniel
Series: Ocean Gazing
Caption: Michael Wilkin and Katie Rathmell stand beside a renegade buoy that broke loose from its tether. Point Adams fish packing plant lets CMOP hang sensors, tubes and pumps off the end of its pier to collect water samples. CMOP (Center for Coastal Margin Obs
The Columbia River of northwest Oregon is just caked with stories along its twists and bends. Stories of a natural system and a human system in coe...

Bought by XRAY.fm


  • Added: Aug 29, 2013
  • Length: 10:41
  • Purchases: 1
Liquid Light
From: Ari Daniel
Series: Ocean Gazing
Caption: Wetlab company members encircle the 'moonpool' on the aft deck of the Pontoon Boat of Science where they suspend and test their instruments. L to R: Corey Koch, Ron Zaneveld, Alex Derr and Ian Walsh. One big challenge of making sensors that stay in the o
Pour light into liquid, keep a detector at the ready, and what do you get? Opportunities to keep constant track of the chemical and biological brew...

  • Added: Aug 29, 2013
  • Length: 09:50
A 60-Ton Wake Up Call
From: Ari Daniel
Series: Ocean Gazing
Caption: Right whale mother and calf. Credit: Wikimedia Commons. Biodiversity encompasses the variety of life and the variation of genes. It's also a central tenet of the Encyclopedia of Life. Credit: EOL. The Encyclopedia of Life was born when biologist E.O. Wi, Credit: Wikimedia Commons.
Playing female right whale calls into the water, researcher Susan Parks suddenly finds herself at the center of attention of a group of males.

  • Added: Aug 29, 2013
  • Length: 06:44
Adroitly Adrift
From: Ari Daniel
Series: Ocean Gazing
Caption: The team at Southern Maine Community College assembles drifters that either float at the surface or hang about 5-10 meters beneath it, and they get pushed along by the currents. , Credit: Tom Long.
Little floats with GPS units are coursing all over the eastern seaboard, and they’re rousing community college students and lobstermen from bed at ...

  • Added: Aug 29, 2013
  • Length: 09:03
Bobbing and Bowling
From: Ari Daniel
Series: Ocean Gazing
Caption: The Lake Sturgeon Bowl team from Clara Mohammed High School in Milwaukee collect data aboard a hypothesis-testing cruise on Lake Michigan. Credit: Carmen Aguilar. Newman Catholic High School students listen to the Ocean Gazing podcast (!) before the star, Credit: Carmen Aguilar.
Living 1000 miles from the ocean is no reason to keep from learning everything you can about the high seas. At least that’s what high schoolers all...

  • Added: Aug 29, 2013
  • Length: 10:57
The Antarctic Circumpolar Current, composed
From: Ari Daniel
Series: Ocean Gazing
Caption: Salinity map of the Pacific Ocean with saltier (orange) and less salty (blue) water depicted. Credit: WOCE Atlas Volume 2. Infrared Antarctic composite image showing cloud cover with land outlines. Credit: Antarctic Meteorological Research Center. Lynne, Credit: WOCE Atlas Volume 2.
The Antarctic Circumpolar Current courses through the Southern hemisphere, cooling down and getting heavier all the while. And for the first time, ...

  • Added: Aug 29, 2013
  • Length: 09:15
A Green Ocean
From: Ari Daniel
Series: Ocean Gazing
Caption: The global biosphere is a map of chlorophyll on land and in the ocean., Credit: SeaWiFS Project/NASA.
What color would you paint the oceans on our planet? Blue? Try green. At least that’s what a NASA satellite 450 miles above our heads is telling us...

  • Added: Aug 29, 2013
  • Length: 09:18
The Little Sub That Could
From: Ari Daniel
Series: Ocean Gazing
Caption: "RU27 just before recovery with the Investigador in the background. , Credit: Dan Crowell.
Last April, a 6 foot, 120 pound robot called RU27 left the coast of New Jersey with a mission to be the first remote controlled vehicle to traverse...

  • Added: Aug 29, 2013
  • Length: 06:17
Keeping Watch on a Changing Ocean
From: Ari Daniel
Series: Ocean Gazing
Caption: Kate Larkin and Richard Lampitt (lower left) teamed up with a crew in 2007 to study the Porcupine Abyssal Plain in the Northeast Atlantic Ocean. , Credit: Kate Larkin.
When the tiniest of particles settle onto the deepest of ocean bottoms, they can have the biggest of influences. Fisheries collapse. Tsunamis. Ecos...

  • Added: Aug 29, 2013
  • Length: 08:38
Community Organizing, Ocean Style
From: Ari Daniel
Series: Ocean Gazing
Caption: Marine habitats are an untapped resource for the discovery of new pharmaceuticals, as this schematic illustrates. Credit: OOI Regional Scale Nodes Program, University of Washington.
Ocean observatories are radically changing not only the way scientists do their science, but also how they interact with one another and the wider ...

  • Added: Aug 29, 2013
  • Length: 09:17
Ocean Voices
From: Ari Daniel
Series: Ocean Gazing
Caption: Halsey Burgund playing an electronic mallet instrument with his band, Aesthetic Evidence, at the 2007 Boston Cyberarts Festival. Credit: Michael Duncan. Screenshot from www.oceanvoices.org. Visit the website, and record your story about the ocean! , Credit: Halsey Burgund.
Recording voices and composing music around those voices is one of Halsey Burgund’s specialties. And he’s got a new project where he’s collecting s...

  • Added: Aug 29, 2013
  • Length: 10:15
The Final Frontier
From: Ari Daniel
Series: Ocean Gazing
Caption: Archaeological oceanography is the study of ancient human history now resting in the deep sea. , Credit: Inner Space Center.
The Inner Space Center makes visiting the bottom of the ocean easier than going to the store. And by using some of the newest technology available,...

  • Added: Aug 29, 2013
  • Length: 09:11
Clearing a Carbon Catastrophe
From: Ari Daniel
Series: Ocean Gazing
Caption: If you live in the USA, you release (on average) 122 pounds of CO2 into the air every day. And a good amount of that is entering our oceans.
We’re letting loose tons — literally — of carbon dioxide into our skies each day. And a good amount of that CO2 is finding its way into the ocean. ...

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  • Added: Jun 28, 2013
  • Length: 09:43
  • Purchases: 2
The Prince’s Predictions, Part II
From: Ari Daniel
Series: Ocean Gazing
Caption: One of three vessels involved with the Sound Predictions project, the Auklet arrives on station to sample the temperature and salinity of Prince William Sound. Credit: Ian Robbins. Snapshot of sea surface temperature simulated by the model discussed in t, Credit: Ian Robbins.
Predicting how an entire body of water circulates is no easy task. To do it in Prince William Sound up in Alaska, it took 3 ships, teams deployed i...

  • Added: Aug 29, 2013
  • Length: 09:22
The Prince’s Predictions, Part I
From: Ari Daniel
Series: Ocean Gazing
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Twenty years ago, an environmental disaster rocked Prince William Sound in Alaska. Today, a team assembled from science, government and beyond is t...

  • Added: Aug 29, 2013
  • Length: 09:43
Antarctica Melting
From: Ari Daniel
Series: Ocean Gazing
Caption: Debbie Steinberg studies Antarctic zooplankton - the tiny drifting animals of the sea.
Climate change is impacting even one of the most remote places on Earth: Antarctica. Krill numbers are down, salp numbers are way up, and the entir...

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  • Added: Aug 29, 2013
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 1
Gliding on Earth
From: Ari Daniel
Series: Ocean Gazing
Caption: The star of the show is RU27, the underwater glider that's cruising from New Jersey to Spain.
Rutgers University students are piloting one tiny, yellow, torpedo-shaped glider across the Atlantic Ocean from New Jersey to Spain. The journey is...

  • Added: Aug 29, 2013
  • Length: 07:40
Dungeons and Darwins
From: Ari Daniel
Series: Ocean Gazing
Caption: The viz wall at MIT, a programmable canvas used to examine large images and movies of the Earth. , Credit: Mick Follows.
Sometimes understanding the vastness of the ocean means understanding the wee strands of DNA packed into the tiniest of cells, and how that DNA giv...

  • Added: Aug 29, 2013
  • Length: 08:36
Autonomous, Enormous, Ingenious
From: Ari Daniel
Series: Ocean Gazing
Caption: An Autosub keeps track of all kinds of features in the ocean, and Gwyn Griffiths oversees their design and science.
Autosubs look like giant yellow torpedoes. They cruise the ocean silently. But they’re watching, listening, probing, and measuring everything as th...

  • Added: Aug 29, 2013
  • Length: 08:01
A Gust of Energy
From: Ari Daniel
Series: Ocean Gazing
Caption: Offshore wind farm, Denmark.
A lot of people are talking about capturing the wind’s energy. But Jim Miller’s pointed his ears underwater, and it turns out that harnessing the w...

  • Added: Aug 29, 2013
  • Length: 07:46