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SAMS Ocean Explorer

Scottish Association for Marine Science

The Scottish Association for Marine Science (SAMS) in Oban, Scotland is an ocean research charity and investigates various elements of our marine environment, from algae to oceanography. In this podcast, we meet staff and students from SAMS to learn more about our vast and mysterious ocean.

Please consider supporting this important work https://www.sams.ac.uk/support-sams/

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Episodes

24 episodes

  1. The scientists saving seaweed! 34:17
  2. The biodiversity crisis: How do we halt the losses? 34:09
  3. Prof. Mike Burrows: A career in climate change 32:07
  4. The Ellett Line: Decades of ocean discovery and 30-metre waves! 33:41
  5. The state of ocean science: politics, pressure, and what comes next 42:01
  6. Ocean carbon storage: how much is too much? 33:27
  7. The robots helping us to protect nature 35:27
  8. Marine restoration: why it's everyone's business 34:59
  9. Ten years of ACES: Training aquaculture's future leaders 36:10
  10. A new wave of ocean exploration 38:36
  11. Drowning in plastic pollution 35:57
  12. Dark Oxygen: a deep sea discovery 42:38
  13. Plankton: Earth's hidden hero 36:21
  14. Flapper skate: the little known giant of the sea 35:13
  15. Poetic sampling: when art and science collide 33:42
  16. The Nick Owens interview (part two): Antarctica and beyond 37:12
  17. The Nick Owens interview (part one): generational change and climate change 30:44
  18. CSI Cetaceans: Investigating whale strandings 39:08
  19. Weighing up the wonders of seaweed farming 32:35
  20. Whales of the west coast 44:44
  21. SIMBA: Using technology to predict ice melt, avalanches and floods 29:50
  22. Feeling the heat: Marine heatwaves on the rise 41:22
  23. Unpicking the problem of whale entanglement 36:16
  24. Underwater sounds 38:30