May Mini Episode - Updates, Email, and V.ECOP

05/28/21 • 3 min

Ocean Science Radio

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Check out the Virtual Early Career Ocean Professional Conference here.

Got an idea for the podcast? Want to ask a question? Email us at [email protected]

Check out the Virtual Early Career Ocean Professional Conference here.

Previous Episode

National Science Foundation's Networked Blue Economy Ocean Accelerator

The team sits down with Douglas Mughan - the NSF office head for the convergence accelerator, Chris Sanford - a program director with the accelerator, and Clea Harrelson - 2021 Knauss Marine policy fellow, to talk about what the National Science Foundation is hoping to achieve with this new program.

We also speak with Fadel Adib - Doherty Chair of Ocean Utilization and Associate Professor at the MIT Media Lab and EECS and Seth Zippel - an assistant scientist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution who generated the idea.

Letters of intent are due May 5th for this huge opportunity, learn more here.

Next Episode

Blue Nature Alliance and the Quest to Protect 7 Million Square Miles of the Ocean

We speak with Angelo O'Connor Villagomez - senior officer of Marine Protection at Pew Charitable Trusts, Laure Katz - Senior Director of Blue Nature at Conservation International, Ashland and Philippe Cousteau of Antarctic 2020, and Susana Waqainabete-Tuisese - Senior Director Pacific Region at Conservation International.

The conversation covers the need for real marine protected areas, why the Antarctic needs to be protected, and the importance of indigenous knowledge and collaboration in conservation.

Be sure to check out the hashtag #CallOnCCAMLR

Listen to Angelo O'Connor Villagomez on our sister program, Marine Conservation Happy Hour.