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
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
“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.
Wind Turbines and noise underwater
On this episode Dr Scarlett Smash has a conversation with Dr. Jim Miller about offshore wind turbines and cetaceans.