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It Came From the Sea

It Came From the Sea

It Came From the Sea

It Came From the Sea is a podcast started in an attempt to share with the world the amazing, complicated, and infuriating facts about the ocean the host, Sarah, picked up during her time studying at the University of Washington School of Oceanography, and over the course of her lifelong fixation with all things aquatic and salty. Through the course of this podcast, she will attempt to make the science, politics, and history of the ocean as interesting for her non-oceanographer friends as it is for her.

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It Came From the Sea - Sea Stories: Clickbait Foot Title Here
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03/08/21 • 40 min

What's up with all those feet washing up on shores in Washington and British Columbia?

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It Came From the Sea - Ep. 4 20,000 Dead Things Under the Sea
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11/16/20 • 49 min

Did you know it snows in the sea? It's mostly poop, and always nutritious. Sarah and Sam discuss the incredible importance of marine snow. Along the way, they muse about plankton, whale falls, and of course, bring it all back to climate change. https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/plankton.html https://www.whoi.edu/know-your-ocean/ocean-topics/ocean-life/phytoplankton/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFQ_fO2D7f0 https://oceantracks.org/library/general-ecology/energy-and-food-webs https://ocean.si.edu/ecosystems/deep-sea/marine-snow-staple-deep https://usa.oceana.org/blog/exploring-marine-snow-nutritious-and-vital-type-snowfall-deep-sea Vent fauna on whale remains. 1987. Nature. https://allyouneedisbiology.wordpress.com/tag/whale-fall-stages/ https://www.mbari.org/whale-falls-islands-of-abundance-and-diversity-in-the-deep-sea/ https://oceanconservancy.org/blog/2019/10/18/whale-falls/ Pershing, A. J., Christendsen, L. B., Record, N. R., Sherwood, G. D., Stetson, P. B. 2010. The Impact of Whaling on the Ocean Carbon Cycle: Why Bigger Was Better. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0012444

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It Came From the Sea - Ep. 9 It Came From the Seaweed Pt. 2
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02/15/21 • 44 min

Sarah and Sam are back at it talking about Seaweed in the environment and as an environment. We're talking carbon sequestration, biofuels, and how otters help mitigate climate change while being some of the cutest gd things in the ocean. Resources Resources: https://oceana.org/marine-life/marine-science-and-ecosystems/kelp-forest https://www.keapbk.com/blogs/keap/the-great-carbon-sink-in-the-sea-geoengineering-seaweed-and-the-race-to-beat-climate-change https://theconversation.com/how-farming-giant-seaweed-can-feed-fish-and-fix-the-climate-81761 https://wsg.washington.edu/community-outreach/kelp-aquaculture/ https://c-can.info/reference/KelpingtheSeaFinal.pdf https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-69258-7 Duarte Carlos M., Wu Jiaping, Xiao Xi, Bruhn Annette, Krause-Jensen Dorte. 2017. Can Seaweed Farming Play a Role in Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation? Frontiers in Marine Science V. 4 P100. https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fmars.2017.00100 https://microbiologysociety.org/blog/bioremediation-the-pollution-solution.html https://regenerationinternational.org/2018/05/16/what-is-biochar/ https://www.euronews.com/2020/02/17/could-seaweed-be-the-fuel-of-the-future https://cordis.europa.eu/article/id/411734-is-seaweed-the-solution-to-sustainable-biofuel https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/could-our-energy-come-from-giant-seaweed-farms-in-the-ocean/ Aitken, J. B., & Senn, T. L. (1965). Seaweed Products as a Fertilizer and Soil Conditioner for Horticultural Crops. Botanica Marina, 8(1), 144–147. https://doi.org/10.1515/botm.1965.8.1.144 Battacharyya, D., Babgohari, M. Z., Rathor, P., & Prithiviraj, B. (2015). Seaweed extracts as biostimulants in horticulture. In Scientia Horticulturae. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scienta.2015.09.012 Innocenti, R. A., Feagin, R. A., & Huff, T. P. (2018). The role of Sargassum macroalgal wrack in reducing coastal erosion. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, 214, 82–88. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecss.2018.09.021 Hou, X., Feng, Z., Leip, A., Bojie, F., Hui ,Y., Yan ,C., Gao, S., Shang, Z., Ma, L. (2016). Spatial patterns of nitrogen runoff from Chinese paddy fields. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment. Volume 231, Pages 246-254, ISSN 0167-8809, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agee.2016.07.001. Roberts, D. A., Paul, N. A., Cole, A. J., & de Nys, R. (2015). From waste water treatment to land management: Conversion of aquatic biomass to biochar for soil amelioration and the fortification of crops with essential trace elements. Journal of Environmental Management. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2015.04.016 Sangha, Jatinder & Kelloway, Stephen & Critchley, Alan & Prithiviraj, Balakrishnan. (2014). Seaweeds (Macroalgae) and Their Extracts as Contributors of Plant Productivity and Quality: The Current Status of Our Understanding. 10.1016/B978-0-12-408062-1.00007. Sharma, H. S. S., Fleming, C., Selby, C., Rao, J. R., & Martin, T. (2014). Plant biostimulants: A review on the processing of macroalgae and use of extracts for crop management to reduce abiotic and biotic stresses. Journal of Applied Phycology, Vol. 26, pp. 465–490. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10811-013-0101-9 S.W. Mattner, D. Wite, D.A. Riches, I.J. Porter & T. Arioli (2013) The effect of kelp extract on seedling establishment of broccoli on contrasting soil types in southern Victoria, Australia, Biological Agriculture & Horticulture, 29:4, 258-270, DOI:10.1080/01448765.2013.830276
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BREAKING NEWS FROM TWO WEEKS AGO: Where did all those Alaskan snow crabs go? Some say climate change, others say UFOs, can science ever really know? And what all these eels? We know they end up in European rivers as adults, but no one has ever seen two eels in the wild boning down UNTIL NOW. More at 11. References: https://www.livescience.com/billions-snow-crabs-vanish-from-bering-sea https://twitter.com/Unpop_Science/status/1581660268555251712 https://peer.org/alaska-red-king-crab-dethroned-by-scientific-fraud/ https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-track-eels-to-their-ocean-breeding-grounds-in-world-first https://www.livescience.com/47333-155-year-old-eel.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eel_life_history https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brantevik_Eel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_eel#Life_history https://www.embrc.eu/newsroom/news/ernst-johannes-schmidt-detective-solved-eel-question-little-bit-help-good-carlsberg https://www.gov.uk/government/news/ancient-mystery-of-european-eel-migration-unravelled-to-help-combat-decline-of-critically-endangered-species
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It Came From the Sea - Ep. 26 SoaM Ch1.2 To Clear or not to Clear
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07/23/22 • 77 min

Finishing out Ch. 1 of Dr. Naomi Oreskes 'Science on a Mission' we discuss how the petty rivalries and perceived slights of the previous episode would level up from workplace tension to matters of national security for Harald Sverdrup. Also, we find out Roger Revelle was a babe. Resources: Oreskes, Naomi. Science on a Mission: How Military Funding Shaped What We Do and Don’t Know About the Ocean. 2021. Chicago University Press. https://svenhedinfoundation.org/biography/sven-hedin-biography/
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It Came From the Sea - Ep. 22 Meet the Neuston

Ep. 22 Meet the Neuston

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04/16/22 • 52 min

Last time we learned that neuston exist and are grossly under appreciated. Today, we take a closer look at a few of these floating friends and ask that age old question: Can I Lick This? Will I Die? Sources: https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/portuguese-man-o-war.html https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/invertebrates/facts/portuguese-man-of-war https://aquarium.org/tag/velella-velella/ https://www.wildlifetrusts.org/wildlife-explorer/marine/colonial-creatures/wind-sailor http://sio-legacy.ucsd.edu/zooplanktonguide/species/velella-velella https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJGO_bSsR3w https://www.jellywatch.org/velella https://oceanconservancy.org/blog/2020/10/05/paper-nautilus/ https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/invertebrates/facts/argonaut https://oceana.org/marine-life/blue-glaucus/ https://www.americanoceans.org/species/blue-glaucus/ https://academic.oup.com/jcb/article/24/4/558/2670390
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It Came From the Sea - Ep. 18 Wet Echolocation

Ep. 18 Wet Echolocation

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08/23/21 • 53 min

Continuing our discussion of how we study the sea floor, Sarah and Sam talk about the wonders of SONAR and how sometimes scientists are really dumb for a bunch of smart people. Resources: https://www.history.navy.mil/browse-by-topic/exploration-and-innovation/radar-sonar.html https://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/explorations/lewis_clark01/background/seafloormapping/seafloormapping.html https://noaacoastsurvey.wordpress.com/2016/09/27/a-monumental-history/ https://www.bluehabitats.org/?page_id=1684 A. C. Veatch P. A. Smith. (Geological Society of America, Special Paper No. 7.) Pp. xvi + 101 + 10 plates. (New York: Geological Society of America, 1939.) £1 10s. net. The Origin of Submarine Canyons: a Critical Review of Hypotheses. https://www.nature.com/articles/148672a0 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multibeam_echosounder https://marietharp.ldeo.columbia.edu/about-marie-tharp https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZ0OJcRQf0Q (SONAR NOISE) https://www.sciencenews.org/article/marie-tharp-maps-plate-tectonics-seafloor-cartography https://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/technology/sonar/multibeam.html https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/sonar.html https://www.hydro-international.com/content/article/multi-beam-data-processing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mOjsn5UrWM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fAAxEIFeLU https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/environment/a22594681/weve-been-wrong-before-expanding-earth-theory/
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It Came From the Sea - Ep. 21 Neuston, We have a problem
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04/01/22 • 45 min

Sometimes the most interesting and bizarre life is hiding right in front of us. Sam and I are back to learn about the creatures that survive, and dare we say thrive, in the most visible and least studied part of our oceans. Research for this episode by me, Sarah @barnacle_btch Production for this episode by the lovely Sarah @hikkikonormie Sources: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/01/ocean-cleanup-project-could-destroy-neuston/580693/ https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.31822023868631;view=1up;seq=320 https://www.marineinsight.com/environment/what-does-the-term-ocean-biome-means/ https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3001046 H.G. Marshall, M.I. Gladyshev, Neuston in Aquatic Ecosystems, Editor(s): Gene E. Likens,Encyclopedia of Inland Waters,Academic Press,2009,Pages 97-102,ISBN9780123706263,https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-012370626-3.00220-9. https://theoceancleanup.com/
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It Came From the Sea - Ep. 17 Who has 11km of Rope Just Lying Around?
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07/12/21 • 30 min

It turns out ancient seafloor mapping looks a lot like seafloor mapping in the 1990s. We're starting off a short series on ocean bathymetry by talking about how we got started studying the shape of the seafloor. Resources: https://www.arcgis.com/apps/MapJournal/index.html?appid=4718c81ade5e4fada01797fc175c796e https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmars.2019.00283/full http://www.waterencyclopedia.com/Oc-Po/Ocean-Floor-Bathymetry.html https://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/explorations/03mountains/background/challenger/challenger.html https://divediscover.whoi.edu/history-of-oceanography/the-challenger-expedition/
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It Came From the Sea - Sea Stories Abby Normal Waves

Sea Stories Abby Normal Waves

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03/29/21 • 39 min

Rogue waves are real, and are far more common than you might think. A couple slides but no notes this week because I'm a hack and a fraud: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1-A4myncaCJNk5HMt-8nuLeEUau3bBA1C1p3uQuBawZo/edit?usp=sharing
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It Came From the Sea currently has 36 episodes available.

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The episode title 'Sea Stories: Clickbait Foot Title Here' is the most popular.

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The average episode length on It Came From the Sea is 55 minutes.

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