Episodes

SUFB 646: MarXiv 1 Year Later With Nick Wehner
Dec. 6, 2018

SUFB 646: MarXiv 1 Year Later With Nick Wehner

Nick Wehner, Director of Open Initiatives at OCTO, joins me again on the podcast. This time around we discuss the 1 year anniversary of their pre-print database called MarXiv.  Nick breaks down all of the stats for the inaugural year of this open...
SUFB 645: What Canada Needs To Do For Oil Management With Sigrid Kuehnemund
Dec. 5, 2018

SUFB 645: What Canada Needs To Do For Oil Management With Sigrid Kuehnemund

Sigrid Kuehnemund, , joins me on the podcast today to provide more information on how an oil spill off the coast of Newfoundland and Labrador happened.  During the interview, Sigrid points out that the spill could have been caused by the way the...
SUFB 644: Can Mobile Help The Conservation Field And An Update On My Job Search
Dec. 4, 2018

SUFB 644: Can Mobile Help The Conservation Field And An Update On My Job Search

is back with another segment of "What's Happening In Conservation Marketing This Week?" Brook and I discuss the thought of mobile devices and how there is an opportunity to help conserve the natural areas in our world.  We discuss the use of text...
SUFB 643: How Fisheries Companies Can Make More Money Through Sustainable Fisheries With Tim Cashion
Dec. 3, 2018

SUFB 643: How Fisheries Companies Can Make More Money Through Sustainable Fisheries With Tim Cashion

I am pleased to be joined by Tim Cashion on the episode today to discuss a study that analyzed how fisheries companies could make more money by fishing sustainably over the long term.  Tim is a PhD student at University of British Columbia in...
SUFB 641: Salish Shes Talk Ocean Poop Problems with Beth Pike and Ray Evrard
Dec. 1, 2018

SUFB 641: Salish Shes Talk Ocean Poop Problems with Beth Pike and Ray Evrard

Beth Pike and Ray Evrard, from the , join me today to discuss their most recent episode on Poop...yes, you read that correctly...Poop! Their focused on how Victoria released raw sewage into the Ocean until recently when they decided to build a sewage...
SUFB 640: Well Rescues Can Go Very Wrong And Indonesian Fishers Take Matters Into Their Own Hands
Nov. 30, 2018

SUFB 640: Well Rescues Can Go Very Wrong And Indonesian Fishers Take Matters Into Their Own Hands

We continue with our Friday segment of "What's Happening In Marine Social Science This Week" with Dr. Edd Hind-Ozan, but first, I provide a warning to all people who want to rescue a whale from entangled gear and are not trained for it.  Whale...
SUFB 639: The Real World Sea Turtles With Dr. Nathan Robinson
Nov. 29, 2018

SUFB 639: The Real World Sea Turtles With Dr. Nathan Robinson

I have the pleasure to have a good friend of mine on the podcast, Dr. Nathan Robinson. You might remember . He's also the same guy to pull out the plastic fork from a different Olive Ridley Sea Turtle four months later about 70 km south of the first...
SUFB 638: All White Man Panels and An Update On My Job Search
Nov. 28, 2018

SUFB 638: All White Man Panels and An Update On My Job Search

On today's episode, I talk about the persistence of All Old White Male Panels and conference and workshops and how that might limit Marine Science and Conservation.  I also provide an update on my job search after having an information meeting...
SUFB 637: More On The US Climate Report and What's Next After The Plastic Straw Movement
Nov. 27, 2018

SUFB 637: More On The US Climate Report and What's Next After The Plastic Straw Movement

I start this episode by discussing as I didn't feel that I covered enough on it yesterday.  I continue the episode with our "What's Happening In Conservation Marketing" segment with Brook Tully. Climate Report: 3 Takeaways The Atlantic wrote a...
SUFB 636: Trump Administration Tries To Sneak Climate Report Out Over Holiday Weekend, It Backfired!
Nov. 26, 2018

SUFB 636: Trump Administration Tries To Sneak Climate Report Out Over Holiday Weekend, It Backfired!

A due to the consequences of climate change was released on Black Friday while holiday shoppers were out getting gifts for their families and friends. The Trump administration tried to sneak out the report due to their position as a Climate...
SUFB 635: One Artist Five Ocean with Danielle Eubank
Nov. 24, 2018

SUFB 635: One Artist Five Ocean with Danielle Eubank

connects people with the Ocean through her art, which are paintings of the wavelets in almost every Ocean in the world. Danielle has painted hundreds of pieces from four Oceans and is getting set to paint some pieces in the Southern Ocean. Art plays a...
SUFB 634: Plastic Pollution In Nigeria and Son of the Blob in the Pacific
Nov. 23, 2018

SUFB 634: Plastic Pollution In Nigeria and Son of the Blob in the Pacific

joins me for another segment of "What's Happening in Marine Social Science This Week" where we discuss a . The story describes a lawyer who was sick of seeing plastic on her beach so much that she started an organization involving community clean ups...
SUFB 633: Pre-Register Your Study With Journals With Nick Wehner
Nov. 22, 2018

SUFB 633: Pre-Register Your Study With Journals With Nick Wehner

Nick Wehner is back from OCTO to discuss how . This process will help scientists vet their methods with peer reviewers and get them approved before they do the study, which will increase their chances of being published by the journal and prevent...
SUFB 632: Sharing My Strategy To Find A New Job
Nov. 21, 2018

SUFB 632: Sharing My Strategy To Find A New Job

I'm about to embark on a journey to find a job in Marine and/or Freshwater Conservation in Canada and I want to share this journey with you.  I've covered finding a job before as I shelled out my advice to over a hundred people in my lifetime;...
SUFB 631: Consumer Environmental Trends And Protecting The Ilse Of Man
Nov. 20, 2018

SUFB 631: Consumer Environmental Trends And Protecting The Ilse Of Man

I have on the podcast today for her segment "What's Happening In Conservation Marketing This Week." On this segment Brooke and I discussed how conservation organizations should change their messaging to match changing consumer trends.  I also...
SUFB 630: Why Isn't Anyone Talking About The Massive Oil Spill In Newfoundland and Labrador
Nov. 19, 2018

SUFB 630: Why Isn't Anyone Talking About The Massive Oil Spill In Newfoundland and Labrador

There was an that no one seems to be discussing. It is estimated that 250,000 Litres of oil was spilled it was is still from an unknown cause.  The spill has not yet been contained because the weather is so severe from the "most intense storm"...
SUFB 629: What Do You Love Most About The Ocean?
Nov. 18, 2018

SUFB 629: What Do You Love Most About The Ocean?

We discuss many of the Issues facing the Ocean on this podcast; however, we rarely discuss what we love most about the Ocean itself. We protect the Ocean because we love it, so we should talk more about what we love about the Ocean. In this episode, I...
SUFB 628: Calculating My Carbon Footprint
Nov. 17, 2018

SUFB 628: Calculating My Carbon Footprint

The Canadian Government, led by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, is rolling out the Carbon Tax for Canadians and Businesses. I thought I would take the time to for the past year. I was amazed at how much Carbon I produced for my trips via airplane and...
SUFB 627: Industry-Government-Science Partnership For Whale Monitoring and The Carbon Tax Explained
Nov. 16, 2018

SUFB 627: Industry-Government-Science Partnership For Whale Monitoring and The Carbon Tax Explained

We start today's episode with the Marine Social Science Segment with Dr. Edd Hind-Ozan discussing a news article demonstrating a great Industrial-Government-Science Partnership to monitor whales to prevent entanglement. The Dungeness Crab Industry has...
SUFB 626: China Won't Accept Plastic, What Now with John Davis
Nov. 15, 2018

SUFB 626: China Won't Accept Plastic, What Now with John Davis

For years China has been accepting plastic from many parts of the world include the US; however, the superpower stopped accepting plastic in "dirty" form last January (2018). The questions now is what does the US do with all of its plastic...
SUFB 625: Nautilus and Conch Shells Part of Huge Illegal Trade
Nov. 14, 2018

SUFB 625: Nautilus and Conch Shells Part of Huge Illegal Trade

Elephant tusks and rhino horns dominate the headlines when it comes to illegal products being sold on the black market. I understand why this happens as they are iconic species; however, there are many other illegal animals being sold where...
SUFB 624: How To Better Presentations At Conferences And A Conversation About Climate Change
Nov. 13, 2018

SUFB 624: How To Better Presentations At Conferences And A Conversation About Climate Change

I am happy to announce the beginning of the Conservation Marketing Segments with Brooke Tully. She will be on the program once a week discussing various topics surrounding Conservation Marketing.  Brooke's first segment involves tips on how we...
SUFB 623: Public Perception Of Dolphinariums with Sophia Wasserman
Nov. 12, 2018

SUFB 623: Public Perception Of Dolphinariums with Sophia Wasserman

I am delighted to have Sophia Wasserman on the podcast today to discuss a new published study (Open Access) on the public's perception of Dolphinariums (Swim with Dolphins experience) in the Turks and Caicos Islands.  I was surprised to see the...
SUFB 622: Managing Big Fisheries Data For Better Shark Management With Madeline Cashion
Nov. 11, 2018

SUFB 622: Managing Big Fisheries Data For Better Shark Management With Madeline Cashion

I had the pleasure of interviewing for this episode, where we discussed managing big data for fisheries management with a focus on Sharks.  Madeline completed her Masters with this project. She studied 65 years worth of fisheries data in the...