NewAtlantis Ocean Podcast

Octavio Aburto is a professor and research scientist at Scripps Institute of Oceanography, professional photographer, National Geographic Explorer, and NewAtlantis Labs advisor.

In this episode, we talk about:

• The critical role mangroves play and how we can protect them
• How Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) allow for ocean regeneration
• What turf ecosystems are and how they are evolving due to climate change
• The 25-year survey of the Gulf of California and what changes he has seen over the decades

...and much more!

You can find Octavio’s personal website here and papers he has worked on here. Follow him on Instagram and X.

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Dr. Kathryn Mengerink is the Executive Director at Waitt Institute. Katheryn has more than 20 years of ocean expertise, helping her to combine science, law, and policy to inform decision-making.

In this episodes we talk about:

• The challenges faced by governments creating policies around ocean conservation
• How we can’t let perfection be the enemy of progress
• Using satellite data for ocean assessment
• The one piece of data she would want right now if she could wave a magic wand.

And much more!

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Brett Jenks is the CEO of Rare which has developed a people-centered approach to finding and implementing solutions for biodiversity loss, climate change, food systems, gender equity, and green finance.

In this episode, we talk about:

• How behavioral research is being used to encourage marine conservation
• The nature-positive transformations happening in coastal fisheries
• How to identifying local leaders catalyzes change

...and much more!

You can learn more about Rare here and follow Brett on X.

NewAtlantis Labs seeks to address the twin challenges of climate change and biodiversity loss by aligning community, government, industry, and individual benefit with the improving ecological health of our ocean.

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Welcome to the NewAtlantis Labs Ocean Podcast.

Ocean biodiversity is not only critical to the health of our planet, but it’s also the foundation for our food web and has a huge impact on the global economy. On our new podcast, we’ll talk about the latest discoveries in ocean science, the newest thinking on pricing nature into our economy, and how machine learning and AI are helping us better understand ocean ecology.

We’ll talk to marine biologists, economists, data scientists and explorers from all over the world who will share why and how we must preserve the biodiversity in our ocean.

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Dr. Simon Zadek is the Executive Director at NatureFinance, Senior Advisor to the Task Force on Nature Related Financial Disclosure, and co-lead of the Taskforce on Nature Markets. Previously, he was Head, Secretariat of the UN Secretary General’s Task Force on Digital Financing of the Sustainable Development Goals and Senior Advisor on Finance in the office of the UN Secretary-General.

In this episode, we talk about:

• Society’s addiction to underpricing nature
• How to create equitable nature-positive markets that reward multiple parties including NGOs, governments, local communities, and investors.
• The role of biodiversity credits

...and much more!

You can connect with Simon on LinkedIn and check out his work with NatureFinance. The paper mentioned in this episode can be found here.

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