OCTOPOD is OCTO's flagship podcast, keeping you up-to-date with the latest news and research from the world of sustainable ocean management and conservation. Find out what's happening in your oceans with Nick, Allie, and Raye — your regular OpenChannels Team!
We plan to release a new 10-20 minute episode each week.
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You may browse individual episodes of OCTOPOD below.
In this MarXiv Summary audio-edition, we interview Kye Adams about his recent research which shows that fishing capture of pregnant elasmobranchs (sharks, skates, and rays) can cause these animals to abort their young. The findings suggest that gear restrictions and seasonal closures around the breeding season might be warranted in areas where endangered elasmobranchs are prevalent.
It's episode 19 with Allie and Nick! Allie talks about confused acid fish, while it's MarXiv's one year anniversary so Nick is reopening applications for MaXiv ambassadors! Happy birthday MarXiv!
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It's Raye and Nick for episode 18! We cover a recent news update about heating oceans, aggressive farmersfish, and discuss a MarXiv summary on google trending words in Chile.
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Episode 17 is all about problems and solutions. Raye talks about the newest initiatives to save the southern resident killer whales, and Allie discusses modern slavery in fisheries. Plus, more.
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It's Allie and Raye again with episode 16. The world is heating up and human's are unsure what to do! At least there's relaxing sounds of algae (or eelgrass) to listen to in this episode as we give a brief shout-out to Montana State University's Acoustic Atlas.
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Allie and Nick discuss the latest issue of MEAM, focusing on the restoration of marine ecosystems.
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Allie and Raye bring up topics surrounding education (tools and projects), while Nick informs listeners on the importance of repositories, plus...murder??
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In the unlucky #13 episode, it's just the girls. Allie discusses a Japanese deep-sea plastics database that's been around since the 80s and Raye wonders how to get people to care about Climate Change.
In this episode we discuss revaluation. Revaluating sea-level rise, migration, turtles, recycling, and science itself.
In this episode Allie describes why women are important in fishing communities, Raye becomes a little too excited about microbes, and Nick discusses the EU's plan S.