Radio Marinara

Bron and Angeline in the Fishbowl Studio for chats with Skip Woolley from Museum Victoria on the first ever map of the deep sea floor, with Mark Keenan, the Marine Response Unit Coordinator at Zoos Victoria and Terri Allen with the Dive Report

Setting sail on Sudnay are Anth and Bron. Joining them to talk diving in caves is our Marinara Dive Reporter - Terri Allen from some cave in some far away state! Mark Rodrigue will be joining us to talk FOTS and marine film nights! A couple of recent exciting pieces of marine and coastal science have crossed Anth's desk - one about fraud in fish sales in Europe being on the decline and another abo...

What a mixed and diverse show... Bron and Anth will cover topics as wide as Saving the Sea Eagle by maintaining wetlands, the amount of the ocean floor is actually mapped and at what resolution, practical local solutions to preparing for and responding to the impact of climate change around Western Port with Greg Hunt Exec Officer of the South East Councils Climate Change Alliance, and finally the...

Dr Beach reviews a new science paper about mercury build-up in sea mammals. Our dive reporter Terri Allen gives us the lowdown on what's involved in learning to dive - what to look for, what to avoid - with summer fast approaching and the water temperatures on the rise, this is a segment you won't want to miss! And Bron pays homage and tribute to Dr Bill Ballentine, NZ marine scientist and global...

o we all know that male seahorses get pregnant but new research from University of Sydney is telling us much more about what happens in that pouch on the dad... this is just one of the bits of news Bron and Anth will bring on Sunday... Just sit right back and you'll also hear a tale, a tale of a fruitful trip - this week, six Victorian teachers set sail on an expedition in Moreton Bay in Queenslan...

Straight from the 2015 Australian Fish Biology conference, John brings the lowdown the current trends in fisheries and coastal management, and the latest science on artificial reefs stock enhancement strategies. Terri Allen joins us for a dive report - warm-weather divers are dusting off their BCs and regs...Then Albert Li from Scuba for Change, a fantastic local initiative that puts 100% of profi...

PhD student Derek Dapp, and his supervisor Associate Professor Richard Reina talk about their research into different shark breathing modes, and how they may affect survival after accidental capture. And some updates on that amazing and ambitious project to clean up plastics in the Pacific gyre, some sobering observations and short term predictions about seabirds ingesting plastic and reports of a...

Rex Hunter takes us on an underwater exploration of the shipwrecks of World War 2 in Victoria. PhD students Lauren and Laetitia will entertain us with stories of Gannets at Pope's Eye, and Fur Seals in the sub-Antarctic. And Terri Allen talks about cave diving and marine fossils.

Cecelia Whitton is the Executive Officer of the Westernport Biosphere and joins us to talk about Biosphere Reserves in a global context, why and how Westernport is considered as one, and some of the current challenges facing Westernport and other Biospheres around the world. Sean Doherty, surf scribe and author joins us for a discussion about the big news of the week - 'that' shark attack on 'our'...

goodness me where to start... With Bron having a weekend down the coast, Anth and John will be joined by Jeff Maynard for SoundWaves in a packed show. On a cold Monday evening on July 6th in Geelong about 150 harder interested people joined the Australian Marine Sciences Association public Forum for over an hour of Q&A about marine and estuarine things. With Anth pretending to be Tony Jones, w...

We've been bringing you up to date the last few Sundays about the annual amassing of the spider crabs in Port Phillip Bay. Local underwater photographer and diving enthusiast PT Hirschfield has been getting out there as often as she can, during the week she shot some sensational footage of the spectacular crustacean 'stacks on', and an opportunistic giant sting ray honing in on a giant crabby smor...

Hilary McNevin gives us the lowdown on the humble oyster - what's around, what to go for, what to avoid. And seasonal fish and the cold - does weather matter to fish in the marketplace? Dr Alecia Bellgrove (Deakin University) on the latest from her field of phycology (algae research). And Rex Hunter enlightens us about ship fires in Port Phillip Bay during the gold rush years (cue George Dreyfus t...

Warm-blooded fish: Dr Beach to discuss and dissect (metaphorically!). Dr Surf's annual winter wetsuit review. Back zip, chest zip, no zip? 3/2, 4/3, 5/4? Rip Curl, O'Neill, Patagonia, Excel? What the hell does all this mean? And Radio Marinara Dive Reporter Terri Allen talks about diving with US sharks, and what the wreck diving scene is like in North Carolina.

celebrating World Oceans Day on Monday we will bring you up to date on all the latest marine news and views. Dr Adam Pope, President of the Victorian branch of the Australian Marine Sciences Association joins us to discuss the upcoming AMSA national conference in the balmy warmth of downtown Geelong starting July 5th. It includes a public science event with MC Anthony Boxshall who will try to chan...

The CEO of Australia for Dolphins, Sarah Lucas, joins us to talk about a landmark decision by Japan's peak zoo association to stop members purchasing dolphins captured in Taiji. Preliminary results are in from the global voyage of the Tara: at least 100,000 new plankton species, and much more... Dr Beach will discuss Plus more from the latest marine science, and news including a cool national citi...

Drs Surf and Beach discuss the origins of swell (the surf type) prediction and grill Dr Tim Smith about seagrasses in PPB and the mysterious Chilean connexion.

We cross to Japan to speak with Dr Jacqui Pocklington (aka Dr Pocko) - she's over there doing post-doctoral research into Japanese marine life following her PhD in Melbourne. John Ford talks us through an article he's just co-written with Associate Professor Rob Day from the University of Melbourne about the conundrum of flake and the unanswered question of its sustainability. Is flake sustainable...

We cross to Japan to speak with Dr Jacqui Pocklington (aka Dr Pocko) - she's over there doing post-doctoral research into Japanese marine life following her PhD in Melbourne. John Ford talks us through an article he's just co-written with Associate Professor Rob Day from the University of Melbourne about the conundrum of flake and the unanswered question of its sustainability. Is flake sustainable...

Bron and Anth pop in to talk news and views, and how marine snow is part of the story about the impact of the Deep Horizon oil spill. Chris Smyth from the VNPA will be in to talk about managing pipis in MPA and other things!

We speak with Sea Shepherd Managing Director Jeff Hansen about their hard work over summer, including 'Operation Icefish' - investigating and preventing illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing known generally as 'poaching' in the Southern Ocean, and the recent apparent self-destruction of the Thunder, a vessel well known to Sea Shepherd as a vessel of piracy fishing. Then, Joanne Brookfield, a...

This Sunday Daylight Savings ends. Anth and John will be in to cover marine urbanisation, maritime territory expansion as two linked but very different topics about how we use the sea now and how that will trend into the future. Ever wonder what the coastal zones might be being used for in 2200? And how is that starting now... Amongst all that will be the same great marine and coastal news and vie...

Drs Beach and Surf will be joined by Perran Cook (Monash Uni) to talk about worm holes - not the cosmological kind, but actual worm holes - and how, as Charlie Darwin suspected, they are really, really important in turning over stuff (chemical goodies) on land and sea. Then, in the lead up to the 53rd Bells Beach Surf Comp, we'll yack to Bob Smith, archivist and historian for Rip Curl, and John Co...

Mark Rodrigue talks about the 2015 Festival of the Sea - lots of great stuff happening in Barwon Heads this weekend for all of us who love the brilliant briny. Then Dr Giovanni Turchini joins us to talk about his research into the rapidly diminishing quanitities of omega-3s in farmed salmon, and better ways to manage aquaculture. Rex Hunter presents some interesting facts about a wreck off Point C...

Dr Julie Mondon from Deakin University has just come back from a stint in Antarctica doing research into impact of sewage produced by researchers and staff on Australia's Antarctic bases. She'll join us to talk about her research and what she found. Many of us are pretty confident we know the coastline around Port Phillip Bay and Westernport, but none more so than Graham Patterson. He walked the e...

Lots and lots on in the marine and coastal world a the moment! John, Bron and Anth will be in to chat about it! Prue Addison from the AMSA Victoria branch about the upcoming ""Showcasing Marine Science in Victoria"" forum on March 4th in Melbourne. Mark Rodrigue from Parks Victoria talks about Sea Search, a program designed to encourage public involvement in marine monitoring and research. Mark wi...