Through its year-round Guest Speaker Series, the Long Beach, California-based Aquarium of the Pacific helps visitors to learn about the most current and pressing issues related to the ocean and environment. These experts share stories from the field, new insights about ocean science and predictions for the future, and knowledge they have gathered about the ocean and its inhabitants over years of study. Speakers include university researchers, explorers, acclaimed authors, journalists, nature photographers, and more. These hour-long video podcasts present the lectures in full, including the speakers’ slideshow presentations.
Lecture date: October 16, 2013. Dr. Robert Ballard is a former United States Navy officer and a professor of oceanography at the University of Rhode I...
Lecture date: December 5, 2013. Jesse Ausubel is one of the founders of the Census of Marine Life, a ten-year scientific initiative to determine the d...
Lecture date: November 20, 2013. Sandy Trautwein, Aquarium of the Pacific curator of fishes and invertebrates, received her Ph.D. from the University ...
Lecture date: November 12, 2013. Laurence Madin is the executive vice president, director of research, and a senior scientist at the Woods Hole Oceano...
Lecture date: November 6, 2013. Bernard David is a partner in Energy Management International, Inc. and a senior fellow at The Wharton School’s Initia...
Lecture date: October 9, 2013. Dr. Samuel Wasser, director of the Center for Conservation Biology at the University of Washington, has developed non-i...
Lecture date: September 24, 2013. Dr. Shirley Pomponi is a senior research professor at Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution at Florida Atlantic Un...
Lecture date: September 11, 2013. Michael Latz is the principal investigator at the Latz Laboratory at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, where ...
Lecture date: August 27, 2013. Edith Widder is a deep-sea explorer, oceanographer, marine biologist, and co-founder of the Ocean Research and Conserva...
Lecture date: August 13, 2013. Bruce Robison is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and a fellow of the California Aca...