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#13 Jeremy Raguain — Insights into the High Seas treaty's (BBNJ) final negotiations
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05/09/23 • 70 min
Jeremy Raguain is back!
For those who remember, Jeremy was my first podcast guest. He is a policymaker from the Seychelles, recently finished his fellowship with the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS), and served as a Seychellois delegate during the most recent High Seas (BBNJ) treaty negotiations.
The High Seas BBNJ Treaty — Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction — is a new treaty from the United Nations aiming to set the groundwork for international legislation on the high seas, so beyond the exclusive economic zones of nations. These waters, typically, are, as Jeremy says in the episode, "the wild wild wet," where no rules and enforcement applies. The most recent round of negotiations in March 2023 was the final one of several that didn't conclude last year, mostly due to late night disputes around the sharing and benefits from Marine Genetic Resources (MGR).
Marine Genetic Resources, the establishment, monitoring and identification of Marine Protected Areas as well as environmental impact assessments were some of the key topics discussed to be in this treaty. Moreover, a number of principles such as the precautionary principle and the common heritage of humankind were areas of debate but eventually made it into the treaty.
Most media outlets shared the wide success of the BBNJ treaty finally being "achieved" — and unless you are an expert, you will not know all the details and steps that still remain to be done to actually bring this treaty to life. You will also not hear all the details of what is going on inside these conference rooms, how treaties such as these are passed, and who is responsible for what. Jeremy shared a lot of insights during the negotiations on his social media and specifically shed light on the not-so-pretty aspects of discrimination towards countries from the Global South, who are most threatened by oceans in crisis due to the climate crisis.
In this episode, we discuss both details of the treaty's content, what certain words actually mean and what they don't, as well as what it felt like for Jeremy to negotiate at this treaty.
Remember to follow The Ocean Embassy on Steady and support us there, if you can. You also find us on Instagram, Twitter and LinkedIn.
Cover art: Simon + Anna Madlener. Based on the Spilhaus world projection.
Music and Sound Effects: Lukas Bindel
Mixing: Anna Madlener
#BBNJ #UnitedNations #BBNJtreaty #HighSeasTreaty #biodiversity #environmentalDNA #ocean #climateaction #climatecrisis #unoceandecade #bluecarbon #technology #sciencecommunication #marineconservation #podcast #science #climatescience #technology
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05/29/22 • 3 min
#10 Sheena Talma — Exploring the deep sea in submersibles
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02/20/23 • 60 min
First, some housekeeping – the Ocean Embassy now has a supporters' page on Steady, where you can subscribe to exclusive additional content while helping me produce the show with a small monthly contribution. It allows me to keep this advertisement free, accessible to everyone on all the platforms, while helping me produce more regularly. I’ve really noticed that it’s no small feat to produce a podcast and really want to move into a much more regular and professional production. I’d be incredibly helpful if you feel like supporting the work and sharing the podcast more widely, plus once I do have a steady support on there, I plan to produce additional, exclusive content regarding episodes and guest features.
Now, onto our amazing guest!
Welcome to another episode with The Ocean Embassy. Today, I am welcoming Sheena Talma, a marine biologist from the Seychelles. I met Sheena at an event at MIT Media Lab, All Hands on Deck, in November 2018, where I also met my first podcast guest, Jeremy Raguain. Back then, they were both working for the Seychellois government. Those who listened to the first episode, will have learned from Jeremy how he has been working at the United Nations and Alliance of Small Island Nations to advocate for the protection of the ocean on this high international level. With Sheena, we are talking about similar work in terms of working to advocate for small island nations in the Global South. Sheena has been working with the Nekton Foundation for several years, where she accompanies scientific explorative dives to the deep sea, which means well below 200 meters. Sheena tells us about the necessity of this work, how the Nekton Foundation is working together with local governments and why human exploration is still so relevant. I hope you enjoy this episode with Sheena!
Cover art: Simon + Anna Madlener. Based on the Spilhaus world projection.
Music and Sound Effects: Lukas Bindel
Mixing: Anna Madlener
#ocean #climateaction #climatecrisis #unoceandecade #bluecarbon #carboncapturetechnology #technology #robotics #sciencecommunication #marineconservation #podcast #science #climatescience #technology #womeninstemm #womeninscience
#09 Ute Brönner and Martin Visbeck — What are Digital Twins of the ocean and why do we need them?
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02/06/23 • 59 min
#03a Ocean CDR Series — How does the ocean sequester carbon and which policies are required to support the blue economy?
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08/09/22 • 61 min
Today’s episode is the first of The Ocean Embassy's series on ocean-based Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR) technologies. One of many discussed solutions to the climate crisis, besides of course emission reduction, is the potential of storing carbon in the ocean, for example using marine biomass such as seaweed or more complicated chemical mechanisms. In order to really understand how those solutions might be working, though, today’s episode will start out with actually explaining how the ocean takes up and processes carbon in the first place. Not only are we talking about that, however, but we are also discussing what is behind that huge promise of blue carbon, as it is often termed.
And to make it even more exciting, on this episode I don’t have one guest, but five! The groundwork and basis for this long conversation is a paper published by seven phenomenal female scientists who have a very multidisciplinary background within the marine science and policy sector. The paper is called The Promise of Blue Carbon Climate Solutions: Where the Science Supports Ocean-Climate Policy written by Anne B. Christianson, Anna Cabre, Blanca Bernal, Stacy K. Baez, Shirley Leung, Alicia Perez-Porro and Elvira Poloczanska.
With five of these authors I dissected their paper, talking about the different mechanisms of the oceanic carbon cycle, the ways in which climate solutions can enhance or support these mechanisms, and to what degree we already have policy supporting that. With a group of such interdisciplinary guests we really get a broad perspective on the issue or potential of blue carbon and you will see, also throughout the entire series of next episodes, that opinions are sometimes quite far apart. Nonetheless, in this episode we sort of set the ground rules for understanding the carbon cycle in the first place and getting a sense of how incredibly difficult it is to create policy supporting that science, and vice versa.
Cover art: Simon + Anna Madlener. Based on the Spilhaus world projection.
Music and Sound Effects: Lukas Bindel
Mixing: Anna Madlener
#ocean #climateaction #climatecrisis #unoceandecade #bluecarbon #carboncapturetechnology #technology #robotics #sciencecommunication #marineconservation #podcast #science #climatescience #technology
#11 Emma Bolton — Scientific diving, assessing marine biodiversity and understanding environmental DNA
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03/24/23 • 51 min
Today's guest Emma Bolton is a marine biologist from Brighton/London and currently a research scientist at Basecamp Research. Previously, she worked for the British Antarctic Survey as a scientific diver, conducting important research under sea ice.
In this new episode, we discuss Emma's journey to become a scientific diver and her 20-month deployment on the Southern Pole. Afterwards, we talk about her important work at Basecamp Research where she collects environmental DNA to discover new species and assess biodiversity. Marine environments are particularly interesting and essential to study in this regard — find out why!
Cover art: Simon + Anna Madlener. Based on the Spilhaus world projection.
Music and Sound Effects: Lukas Bindel
Mixing: Anna Madlener
# biodiversity #environmentalDNA #scientificdiving #antarctica #ocean #climateaction #climatecrisis #unoceandecade #bluecarbon #carboncapturetechnology #technology #robotics #sciencecommunication #marineconservation #podcast #science #climatescience #technology #womeninstemm #womeninscience
01/23/23 • 54 min
Welcome back to the Ocean Embassy!
It has been rather quiet on here for two months, a lot going on, but we are back with some amazing episodes in the pipeline and some exciting news.
First, some housekeeping – the Ocean Embassy now has a supporters' page on Steady, where you can subscribe to exclusive additional content while helping me produce the show with a small monthly contribution. It allows me to keep this advertisement free, accessible to everyone on all the platforms, while helping me produce more regularly. I’ve really noticed that it’s no small feat to produce a podcast and really want to move into a much more regular and professional production. I’d be incredibly helpful if you feel like supporting the work and sharing the podcast more widely, plus once I do have a steady support on there, I plan to produce additional, exclusive content regarding episodes and guest features. You’ll find the link in the shownotes and all the media channels if you want to check it out!
Now, onto our amazing guest!
Christine de Silva is a marine biologist at the University of Rhode Island and co-founder of the company Juice Robotics. I met her during a virtual meeting and was totally hooked on her idea, her passion and rigor and knew she had to come on here. With Juice Robotics, Christine aims to revolutionize and democratize deep sea technology that allows exploration of our ocean. As you heard in the intro, more than 93% of our oceans are considered deep sea. If you wonder why we need to explore these places, do keep listening because that is exactly what we’ll talk about – besides all the technical gist and general functioning of their work. I think Christine is super impressive and I love the work for several reasons, mostly because us engineers sometimes tend to overcomplicate technology, making it prohibitively expensive, and that definitely holds true for deep sea technology.
Cover art: Simon + Anna Madlener. Based on the Spilhaus world projection.
Music and Sound Effects: Lukas Bindel
Mixing: Anna Madlener
#ocean #climateaction #climatecrisis #unoceandecade #bluecarbon #carboncapturetechnology #technology #robotics #sciencecommunication #marineconservation #podcast #science #climatescience #technology #womeninstemm #womeninscience
#06 Kathleen Swalling — How do you design effective laws that sustainably protect the ocean?
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09/27/22 • 65 min
On this new episode of The Ocean Embassy, I talk with Kathleen Swalling, an advocate and lawyer for the oceans for many years. She has extensive experience in designing legislation that effectively protects the ocean such as the laws that put the Great Barrier Reef under protection. We discuss how lawyers co-design Marine Protected Areas with all stakeholders involved, who those stakeholders are, and what makes laws ineffective. The aspect of legislation is very critical when we think about large scale impact of protective efforts, so I hope you enjoy this conversation!
Cover art: Simon + Anna Madlener. Based on the Spilhaus world projection.
Music and Sound Effects: Lukas Bindel
Mixing: Anna Madlener
#ocean #climateaction #bbnj #deepseamining #climatecrisis #unoceandecade #bluecarbon #technology #robotics #sciencecommunication #marineconservation #sciencediplomacy #podcast #science #climatescience #technology #womeninstemm #womeninscience #naturebasedsolutions
#05 Melania Guerra — How is marine science informing policy decisions and technological developments and vice versa?
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08/26/22 • 67 min
Today you will hear from Melania Guerra, a super inspirational and inspiring woman. She is from Costa Rica with an American background and originally studied mechanical engineering. Afterwards, she did a PhD in Oceanography at Scripps in Southern California, interned at NASA and worked at several research institutes focusing especially on ocean acoustics before she transitioned into public policy and science diplomacy, working at the United Nations for a yeaar. After getting another Masters Degree in Public Policy, Melania is since this year working as the Director of Science Strategy at Planet in Berlin, which is where I finally met her in person.
What I love very much about this conversation with Melania, unlike my previous episodes, is that we really kind of drift through a lot of common interests and topics. We talk about her research in ocean acoustics and how this science informed public policy, discuss the BBNJ and Deep Sea Mining treaty negotiated during our recording at the United Nations, hop over to her current work place and generally discuss the importance between technology development and marine science. To me, she really embodies what I think about when I envision an interdisciplinary ocean expert—I hope you enjoy this conversation and excuse our drifting off topic hear and there.
“Show notes” for the first time, this is the coral atlas Melania mentioned in the end where satellite data played an important role:
https://www.allencoralatlas.org/
Cover art: Simon + Anna Madlener. Based on the Spilhaus world projection.
Music and Sound Effects: Lukas Bindel
Mixing: Anna Madlener
#ocean #climateaction #bbnj #deepseamining #climatecrisis #unoceandecade #bluecarbon #technology #robotics #sciencecommunication #marineconservation #sciencediplomacy #podcast #science #climatescience #technology #womeninstemm #womeninscience
Hi and welcome back to the Ocean Embassy for another exciting Ocean CDR episode!
In the first episode of this multi-part CDR series, we laid out how the ocean carbon cycle works, what the blue carbon hype is about and which policy frameworks are supporting these blue carbon efforts. Today, we will actually look at one of the ways in which we can artificially enhance carbon uptake. If you listened to the previous episode of this series, you will have noticed that one particular thing is mentioned a lot: the lack of science behind various ocean-based carbon capturing methodologies and therefore the need to treat them very carefully. Today, we are hearing from someone who has a bit of a different perspective on this: Dr. Mar Fernandez-Mendez is a marine biologist with degrees in Marine Microbiology and Biological Oceanography and a distinguished research career at the GEOMAR and Alfred-Wegener-Institutes in Germany, the two most renowned marine research institutions in this country. Her research has evolved from studying marine nutrients in upwelling systems to the potential of seaweeds, in particular a macro-algae called Sargassum. She has been a part of a super cool research project called The Ocean Artificial Upwelling project.
Artificial upwelling refers to an engineering method where essentially, nutrient-rich waters that have low CO2 concentration from the deep sea are exchanged with CO2-rich waters from the upper oceans, enhancing on one hand more carbon uptake at the surface while also storing more CO2 at depths. There are a few hiccups and uncertainties with this technology, though, from how one can actually do this to what effect this can have on all sorts of things such as involuntarily also bringing carbon from the deep sea to the surface or seriously messing with marine organisms that depend on the right nutrients at certain depths.
However, Mar also recently co-founded a company called Seafield Solutions, which is trying to solve exactly that problem: by using another big player in the carbon capture world: Sargassum. Sargassum is a form of macro algae, taking up large amounts of CO2 in order to grow, very well recognizable thanks to its sort of balloons between its leaves. But this algae is actually causing a lot of problems on beaches especially in the Caribbean and on the West Coast of Africa because there is too much of it floating in the sea due to misbalanced ecosystems.
Mar and I talked about her research, how technology assists in the first pilot experiments of artificial upwelling and how Sargassum is helping with that. We also discuss what is needed to achieve a careful balance between trying to do good by capturing carbon versus assessing the risk of altering marine ecosystems.
Cover art: Simon + Anna Madlener. Based on the Spilhaus world projection.
Music and Sound Effects: Lukas Bindel
Mixing: Anna Madlener
#ocean #climateaction #climatecrisis #unoceandecade #bluecarbon #carboncapturetechnology #technology #robotics #sciencecommunication #marineconservation #podcast #science #climatescience #technology #womeninstemm #womeninscience
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How many episodes does The Ocean Embassy have?
The Ocean Embassy currently has 17 episodes available.
What topics does The Ocean Embassy cover?
The podcast is about Podcasts and Technology.
What is the most popular episode on The Ocean Embassy?
The episode title '#13 Jeremy Raguain — Insights into the High Seas treaty's (BBNJ) final negotiations' is the most popular.
What is the average episode length on The Ocean Embassy?
The average episode length on The Ocean Embassy is 56 minutes.
How often are episodes of The Ocean Embassy released?
Episodes of The Ocean Embassy are typically released every 16 days, 6 hours.
When was the first episode of The Ocean Embassy?
The first episode of The Ocean Embassy was released on May 29, 2022.
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