Category Archives: Podcast

Antarctic ecology

Dr Scarlett Smash celebrates the last two episodes of the MMS podcast with Dr. Chris Parsons. They talk about Antarctic life and ecology.

If you would like to keep in touch with Dr Scarlett Smash, tune into the Marine Conservation Happy Hour podcast https://marineconservationhappyhour.libsyn.com 

 

 

 

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Alejandro Fernandez Ajó

On this episode Dr Scarlett Smash has chats with Dr. Alejandro Fernandez Ajó about his work on hormone analysis of gray whale feces to assess correlations and response to a variety of internal and external stressors.

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Phthalate Exposure

On this week’s episode, Dr Scarlett Smash chat with Dr. Leslie Hart about her work investigating potential health impacts from exposure chemicals like phthalate and looking at plastic pollution/plastic-contaminated prey as a potential source of exposure.

 

H.O.P.E. Research lab (Hypothesizing Onehealth Pollution Effects)
 
“We are a team of undergraduate and graduate students studying the magnitude and impacts of plastic pollution…one dolphin at a time.”
 
On instagram:  @hoperesearchlab

 

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PCFG – Feed behavior

On this episode Dr Scarlett Smash talks to Clara Bird, a phd candidate about her research on  the Pacific coast feeding group (PCFG) gray whales’ feeding behaviors. 

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Pacific Coast Feeding Group History

Dr Scarlett Smash continues to talk to Dr KC Bierlich, a postdoctoral scholar about his drone research on the Pacific coast feeding group (PCFG) gray whales. Dr Bierlich shares the history of the PCFG and what it is like conducting drone research.

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Pacific coast feeding group’s morphology and Climate Change

On this episode Dr Scarlett Smash talks to Dr KC Bierlich, a postdoctoral scholar about his research on the Pacific coast feeding group (PCFG) gray whales. Dr Bierlich is investigating the health of whales in a changing climate, with drones.

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Zoop to Poop: Pacific Coast Feeding Group

On this episode Dr Scarlett Smash has chats with Lisa Hildebrand, a PhD student at Oregon State University’s Marine Mammal Institute, about her work analyzing  the “summer resident” gray whale sub-species’ prey species from their poop, and the results are shocking.

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“Summer resident” gray whales

On this episode Dr Scarlett Smash has chats with Dr. Leigh Torres, head of the GEMM Lab, about the health and habitat of the “summer resident” gray whale sub-species.

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Wind Turbines and noise underwater

On this episode Dr Scarlett Smash has a conversation with Dr. Jim Miller about offshore wind turbines and cetaceans.

 

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