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Understanding the Ocean in the 21st Century
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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It has been nearly twenty years since the Ocean Literacy Principles and Framework were first adopted by classroom educators to promote the ocean as...

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  • Added: Sep 06, 2024
  • Length: 05:14
  • Purchases: 1
Eustacy: A Word for the Ocean
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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Eustacy is a word used to describe worldwide changes of sea level. This is a new word for us: even though it seems we live in a eustatic world. We'...

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  • Added: Aug 29, 2024
  • Length: 05:10
  • Purchases: 1
UN Action: A Call for Ocean Communication
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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This week on World Ocean Radio: synopsis of a recent report by the UN Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission entitled "Call to All Voices of th...

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  • Added: Aug 14, 2024
  • Length: 05:43
  • Purchases: 1
Ocean Music
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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This week we're taking listeners to the shore, to be reminded of the importance of silence, solitude and renewal in our lives, and of the healing p...

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  • Added: Aug 07, 2024
  • Length: 05:10
  • Purchases: 1
The Rain Remembers
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: An afternoon monsoon in Kolkata., Credit: Sandip Roy
What used to be a wondrous event every year in India, has this year taken on a darker hue. Sandip Roy looks to the skies and considers this seasons...

  • Added: Aug 05, 2024
  • Length: 06:00
Spilhaus World Ocean Map
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
Caption: The Spilhaus Projection World Ocean Map based on the Spilhaus projection, developed in 1942 by Dr. Athelstan Spilhaus. Centered in Antarctica, the world oceans come together to form a singular, connected, contiguous body of water. , Credit: StoryMaps ArcGIS
Visualization is a powerful tool for understanding beyond data, opening our minds and enabling transformative change through a new way of seeing. T...

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  • Added: Aug 02, 2024
  • Length: 05:16
  • Purchases: 1
Bright Ideas Toward a Sustainable Future
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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This week: two technological innovations—both bright ideas, that could have huge impacts for useful, sustainable change for the future. The first i...

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  • Added: Jul 24, 2024
  • Length: 04:51
  • Purchases: 1
The Internal Price on Nature
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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As we review the state of climate change challenge and response, it becomes clear we are not succeeding. Is it possible to craft a new economic sys...

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  • Added: Jul 17, 2024
  • Length: 05:07
  • Purchases: 1
Plastic: Cycle and Recycle
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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Plastic is ubiquitous. It is everywhere in our lives, in our air, bodies, and water, yet we do not possess the cycle or recycle to continue product...

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  • Added: Jul 10, 2024
  • Length: 05:04
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An Ocean Literacy Declaration
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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World Ocean Observatory is ever in search of new systems that convert knowledge into action, especially as they relate to ocean education and commu...

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  • Added: Jun 27, 2024
  • Length: 05:18
  • Purchases: 1
My Meeting with the Alewives
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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This week on World Ocean Radio we are hailing the alewife: a species of herring found in the west Atlantic where they thrive along shore and season...

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  • Added: Jun 19, 2024
  • Length: 05:09
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AMOS 24-124: See Yourself As Others See You, 6/21/2024
From: WFIU
Series: A Moment of Science
Caption: A Moment of Science
See Yourself As Others See You

  • Added: Jun 10, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
AMOS 24-122: Cotton Wrinkles, 6/19/2024
From: WFIU
Series: A Moment of Science
Caption: A Moment of Science
Cotton Wrinkles

  • Added: Jun 10, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
What is World Ocean Day Meant to Do?
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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On June 8th each year we come together as a global community to celebrate World Ocean Day, a date set aside to recognize our relationship with the ...

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  • Added: Jun 07, 2024
  • Length: 04:43
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A Rescue Blueprint: How the Ocean Can Save Civilization pt 2 of 2
From: World Ocean Observatory
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A call to action: In this two-episode arch we reintroduce listeners to RESCUE: a 33-part series outlining a plan for specific action and public par...

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  • Added: May 29, 2024
  • Length: 05:17
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AMOS 24-116: Why One Rotten Apple Can Spoil the Barrel, 6/11/2024
From: WFIU
Series: A Moment of Science
Caption: A Moment of Science
Why One Rotten Apple Can Spoil the Barrel

  • Added: May 24, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
Bio-Regional Thinking and the Deep Sea
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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Bio-regions on Earth are organized into types, then realms, and are further distinguished and mapped for planning, strategizing, developing, and as...

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  • Added: May 08, 2024
  • Length: 05:13
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Summers of Discontent
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Summer Fruits in Kolkata., Credit: Sandip Roy
As the Indian heat descends on Kolkata, Sandip considers how our perceptions about the rituals of summer have changed.

  • Added: Apr 30, 2024
  • Length: 06:00
Regulation
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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This week on World Ocean Radio we're discussing a recent trip to Lisbon, Portugal to attend the Economist Ocean Summit. One such conversation we pa...

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  • Added: Apr 19, 2024
  • Length: 05:04
  • Purchases: 1
Nocturne
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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A nocturne is a short musical composition: dreamy, romantic, suggestive of the night, a passage from one place to the next. This week we're asking:...

  • Added: Apr 01, 2024
  • Length: 05:07
Aqua-Cultural Thoughts
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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Seafood is a world staple, under siege by increased consumption and over-fishing. Aquaculture is the necessary alternative, yet is a polarizing iss...

  • Added: Mar 06, 2024
  • Length: 05:18
AMOS 24-60: Mindset and Genes, 3/25/2024
From: WFIU
Series: A Moment of Science
Caption: A Moment of Science
Mindset and Genes

  • Added: Mar 04, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
Ecological Overshoot, part two
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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"We are not blind to the overall problem, and if we were in doubt, recent climate-explained events, near and far, should open our eyes more widely....

  • Added: Mar 04, 2024
  • Length: 05:13
Ecological Overshoot, part one
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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In this episode and the next, World Ocean Radio reports on the status quo, business-as-usual, tunnel vision conclusions at COP28 in Dubai, hosted b...

  • Added: Feb 14, 2024
  • Length: 04:51
Gloucester Marine Genomics Institute
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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A November visit to Gloucester Massachusetts for an Ocean Literary Conference (NEOSEC 2023) afforded W2O staff an opportunity to take a field trip ...

  • Added: Feb 13, 2024
  • Length: 05:20