Category Archives: Podcast

Narwhal History

On this week’s episode Dr Ashley Scarlett (Dr Scarlett Smash) chats with Dr Marie Louis about her recent work on population structure of narwhals.

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Graham Derzon-Supplee and his work on begging dolphins

This week’s episode is memorializing and honoring the late Graham Derzon-Supplee and his work on common bottlenose dolphins. Graham was a rising star in marine science, who we sadly lost far too young. Dr Tara Cox, his research advisor, tells Dr Ashley Scarlett (Dr Scarlett Smash) about the the fond memories that she has of Graham and the fascinating research he was doing.

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How much microplastic do whales eat?

On this week’s episode Dr Ashley Scarlett (Dr Scarlett Smash) chats with Dr Shirel Kahane-Rapport about microplastics in the sea and her work with baleen whales.

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Pinniped cardiovascular physiology

On this week’s episode Dr. Ashley Scarlett (Dr Scarlett Smash) has Rhea Storlund is a PhD candidate studying cardiovascular anatomy and function in diving behaviors.

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Protecting endangered Southern Resident killer whales with Quiet Sound

On this week’s episode Dr Ashley Scarlett (Dr Scarlett Smash) has Rachel Aronson, “Quiet Sound” Program Director at Washington Maritime Blue to talk about their voluntary vessel slow down project in Puget Sound that they hope will help the endangered Southern Resident killer whales.

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Dolphins with broken rostrums, pt 2

In this week’s episode Ashley Scarlett (Dr Scarlett Smash) continues to chat with Guilherme Frainer from Sea Search, who explains how dolphins with broken beaks can still survive and hypothesizes the cause of the injuries.

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Sound Production in Dolphins, pt 1

In this week’s episode Ashley Scarlett (Dr Scarlett Smash) chats to Guilherme Frainer from Sea Search, about how dolphin produce sound. Gui explains if differences were discovered between dolphins species, and if they produce higher frequency sounds.



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IWC Report 2022

On this week’s episode Dr Ashley Scarlett (Dr Scarlett Smash) is joined by past host Dr Chris Parsons. They discuss the recent International Whaling Commission (IWC) meeting and how important science and conservation is to the IWC

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How much do Indian Ocean Humpback dolphins whistle

On this week’s episode Ashley Scarlett (Dr Scarlett Smash) has an in depth conversation with Sasha Dines from Sea Search Research and Conservation, about bioacoustics as a monitoring tool to for dolphins across Southern Africa.



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How CITES protect wildlife?

On this week’s episodes Dr Ashley Scarlett (Dr Scarlett Smash) chats with Dr Chris Parsons about how CITES works and protect marine mammals.

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