Breaching Extinction

Fist porpsiode with Madison Bashford talking about Stellar Sea Cows :) 

This week Erica chatted with Katie Kowarski Research Scientist at JASCO Applied Sciences about the last chapter of her thesis: Seasonal song ontogeny in western North Atlantic humpback whales: drawing parallels with songbirds . Katie shares her unexpected findings on humpback whale acoustics is the North Atlantic population.  

In this week's episode, we introduced Madison Basford our new porpisode cohost. Erica and Madi had an authentic and vulnerable conversation about overcoming the trials and tribulations of life and the importance of being healthy in order to have a positive impact on the world.  WARNING: This episode contains sensitive topics including but not limited to trauma, cults, abuse, sexual assault, suicid...

This week Erica chatted with Joey Stagnaro a, Santa Cruz local who has been working on the Monterey Bay fishing and whale watching since he was 6 years old. Joey shares a bit of his life story and the changes he has seen though out his time on the bay. 

In our final porpisode with Kendra, we finish the last four chapters of Listening to Whales by Alexandra Morton. We highly recommend this book to anyone interested in whales or a story about perseverance.  Warning: For some reason, we started talking about explicit around minute 28, so if you don't want to hear that, stop lis tening then.

In this week's episode, Erica chatted with Nicole Danaher-Garcia researcher from the Dolphin Communication Project about her recent publication, The partial merger of two dolphin societies. The merging of social groups is rarely seen in terrestrial animals, making this finding rather remarkable and furthering our insight into the complex world of social creatures. 

This week Erica sits down with researcher Deborah Vicari to discuss her recent publication regarding the discovery of hybridization between belugas and narwhals using geometric morphometrics on museum specimens. Deborah and her colleagues were able to determine Narlugas do exists by studying their skulls.  Source: Skull ecomorphological variation of narwhals ( Monodon monoceros , Linnaeus 175...

This week Liam and Erica talked about the progress in regard to an oil spill as a result of the vessel sinking with 2,600 gallons of off fuel near SJI. They also discussed chapters 17-19 of Listening to Whales by Alexandra Morton. Note: We uploaded the wrong episode last week, whoops :) 

This week Erica interviewed Scott Veirs founder of Beam Reach and co-founder of the Orcasound.net initiative about his new citizen science program, allowing more people to access acoustic data from the Salish Sea. 

This week Liam, Kendra, and Erica discussed topics related to Chapters 14-16 of Listening to Whales by Alexandra Morton including sustainability and evolving perspectives

In this weeks episode Kendra, Liam and Erica dove into chapter 11, 12, and 13 of Alexandra Mortons Listening to Whales. 

In this week's episode Liam, Kendra, and Erica dove into chapters 5 & 6 of Listening to Whales by Alexandra Morton. They also covered recent SRKW news regarding the Biden administration weighing in breaching the Lower Snake River dams , a new K pod calf , and the recent declaration of vulnerability in 13 individual Southern Residents.  More Sources:  https://wdfw.wa.gov/sites/default...

This week Erica sat down with Dennis Fukushima, lead biologist at the Octopus Farm about their approach to octopus conservation and the state of octopus in Hawaii. He also shares his thoughts on how we can be better stewards of conservation. 

This week Erica chatted with Donna Sandstrom, Founder/Executive Director of the Whale Trail and member of the Orca Task Force about her work and thoughts on how to help the Southern Residents.  About The Whale Trail: Where the Whales Are: Discovering Marine Mammals from Shore Along the Pacific Coast (Washington Post 2020) Humans are so loud marine safaris might soon be on land (Daily Beast 2021) A...

This week Erica chatted with Orca Researcher Anaïs Remili about her recent publication, Validation of quantitative fatty acid signature analysis for estimating the diet composition of free‑ranging killer whales . She dove into a new methodology studying whale diets called QFASA, and also discussed her organization Whale Scientists, which aims to highlight young cetacean scientists and help aspirin...

This week naturalist and local feral man of Alaska, Dale Frink to talk about the time he got thrown into the water by a blue whale. Dale has requested to raise money for the Ocean Defenders Alliance click the link to donate!  Youtube Video  Photos  

Kendra, Liam, and Erica discuss chapters 3 & 4 of Listening to Whales by Alexandria Morton.  Sources:  https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/environment/new-state-federal-report-puts-10-27-billion-price-tag-on-lower-snake-river-dam-removal/

This week Erica chatted with Hannah Overbeak and Tay Shoemaker from Project Polywog about their impact-driven business model. They shared the plight of two endangered frogs as well as insight on how they are helping these species both through a frog rescue and frog breeding programs. 

This week Erica celebrated our 100th episode and pride month with a special two-part episode. In the first part, she chatted with Kendra Nelson about homosexuwhality in the animal kingdom, as well as their personal experiences being part of the LBGTQ community. For the second part, she chatted with musician and og homie Ambur Wilkerson to write "Baleen" a whale rendition of the iconic Dolly Parton...

This we Erica chatted with Owen Begley-Collier and Lucy Larkin from the Snake River Savers about their upcoming protest in Seattle to remove the Lower Snake River Dams Snake river savers social media sites: https://instagram.com/snakeriversavers?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y= https://www.facebook.com/snakeriversavers/ https://twitter.com/riversavers?s=21&t=OkJuFQGKoTa5Mc-7NBltag Washington resident and c...

In this weeks porpisode Erica, Liam and Kendra dive into the first two chapters of listening to whales by Alexandria Morton. 

This week Erica chatted Alex Haraus, an impact producer focused on saving our natural world. Alex talks about how he has used TikTok as a vessel for conserving wild places and shares some of his life experiences and philosophies. 

This week Erica chatted with Mumbai researcher and PhD Candidate Ketki Jog about her recent publication Marine Mammal Interactions With Fisheries: Review of Research and Management Trends Across Commercial and Small-Scale Fisheries.   Ketki discussed her research and how she used the help of local fishers to collect data. She also shared her insight on how we can be better scientists and stew...

This week Erica chatted with one of her favorite humans Madison Bashford about her novel research tagging and studying market squid at the John Hopkins Marine station during her undergraduate career at California State Monterey Bay. They also have a very real discussion about the role of mental wellness in their personal and professional journeys, as well as larger environmental issues.  

In this week's episode, Erica chats with Ally Rice researcher at Scripps Whale Acoustic Laboratory about her most recent publication Update on frequency decline of Northeast Pacific blue whale ( Balaenoptera musculus ) calls. Ally discusses her study and drives into the unexplainable conundrum behind this phenomena and shares current theories for why this may be happening. Erica and Ally also touc...