Radio Marinara

Fam and our Baykeeper Neil Blake talk about new legislation in South Australia that bans single use plastics, making SA the first state in Australia to do so. SA for the win! Also some news about growing evidence about the impact of single use face masks on our marine wildlife, and Neil will lead a tribute to Tony Flude, the wonderful secretary from Port Phillip Ecocentre and Westgate Park, who de...

The Beach is back! Dr Beach looks at mesocosm predictions of what marine life might be like in elevated CO2 future. Then we catch up with Dr Surf to talk about what surfers do when they can’t go surfing. This could get interesting. Mick Sowry is a true artistic treasure of the ocean – creator of art films ‘Musica Surfica’ and ‘The Reef’ and artistic director of ‘Great Ocean Quarterly – art, ideas...

•Ben Francischelli, vertebrate paleontologist, joins us to talk about some recent marine vertebrate fossils found made before Melbourne’s lockdown, plus an exploration of the ethics of fossil collecting in the area. •We catch up with PT Hirschfield to talk about the Save-Our-Spidercrabs campaign, continuing throughout Stage 4 lockdown. •Back in 2011, Rebecca Prince-Ruiz had a novel idea, and asked...

Big show with Anth, Bron and Kade in the house(boat). After watching the recent ABC doco on East Australian Current young Brett D, will explain how currents and tidal flows influence boating in a very flowing episode of the Cabin Boy Dairies. Dallas D'Silva from the Victorian Fisheries Authority joins us to talk about the satellite tagging of Spider Crabs! Do they survive the moulting and mass gat...

Our Baykeeper Neil Blake reports on Street2Bay’s Project Scouts, including their push for state and local government support for their ongoing hard work in reducing plastic pollution on our streets, and ultimately the sea. Then from the surfcoast to Warrnambool, we'll speak with seabird researcher Mel Wells who recently returned from 22 months living on sub-Antarctic Macquarie Island Nature Reserv...

It’s been about a month since the 2020 spider crab aggregation ended and the crabs headed back out to sea. With 9 months until they return, the clock is already ticking and the campaigns to increase their protection continues. We catch up with Jacqui Younger from Spider Crab Alliance, and PT Hirschfield from Spider Crabs Melbourne on what their groups have been up to since Crabapallooza 2020 ended...

Ben Francischelli, a Vertebrate Palaeontologist with a background in prehistoric ancient marine organisms of Australia's southern coastline. We’ll catch up with Ben to talk about life as a vertebrate paleontologist, the Lost World of Bayside project, and what you should do if you find a fossil. Dave Donnelly (Killer Whales Australia/Dolphin Research Institute), about some exciting local visits by...

We speak with Canadian film maker Nathalie Bibeau about her incredible new documentary ‘The Walrus and the Whistleblower’. Focusing on efforts of former trainer Phil Demers to draw attention to the treatment of captive marine mammals at Marine Land, Niagra Falls, and in particular a walrus named Smooshi, ‘The Walrus and the Whistleblower’ recently won the top award at Hot Docs and is premiering at...

Rex Hunter, Whale Watch, Social Dolphins and Cabin Boy Diaries

We’ll play an interview Bron recently recorded with currently London-based author Dr Rebecca Giggs about her new book 'The World in the Whale'. Bron speaks with Rebecca about her indepth exploration of the relationship humans have had with whales over thousands of years, with a deep dive into our adoration and exploitation of whales, and how our relationship with them has changed over time. Dr Bea...

Party’s over folks – the annual migration of the spider crabs is done and dusted for another year. So what were the highlights and lowlights of Crabapalooza 2020? We’ll speak with PT Hirschfield (Spider Crabs Melbourne) and Jacqui Younger (Spider Crab Alliance) about the spectacular 2020 migration event, their underwater and terrestrial observations of the human response to this annual phenomenon,...

Dr Beach and Anth in the pond this week with lots on... squeezed as we are between World Environment Day and World Oceans Day! Wait for Life's a Beach and hear the latest marine science of interest from Dr Beach. Dr Becki Morris from the University of Melbourne joins us live in the studio to talk about her paper out this week in the journal Nature - Climate Change focused on when and how to use na...

Ok folks, It’s time for some charismatic megafauna!! •First up, Bec Wellard tells us about a fascinating new line of cetacean communication research – bioacoustics of Orcas in Australian waters. Despite decades of research into the communication patters of whales and dolphins in Australian waters, almost nothing is known about how Orcas communicate here. •We’ll then catch up with Dave Donnelly (Do...

In our next instalment of Plastic Litteracy, we’ll be talking company-wide behaviour change around plastic use, with the Executive Director of Plastic Oceans Australiasia Ricki Hersburgh Spider crab, spider crab, friendly neighbourhood spider crab – but which neighbourhood? Blairgowrie? Rye? Portsea? All or none of the above? We’ll speak with Dallas D’Silva from the Victorian Fisheries Authority a...

If you were ever to get two activities that were diametrically opposed, it would be surfing and painting. We’ll speak with artist and surfer Henry Jock Walker about how he has managed to combine his two passions in more ways than one, and an upcoming online session at the Substation you will no doubt enjoy. Then we cross to Perth to chat with Dr Mark Meekan from the Australian Institute of Marine...

Bron and Fam present a special volunteer focused edition of Radio Marinara. With marine and coastal volunteers in covid-19 isolation, staying connected to the coast has been a big challenge when so many have not been able to be physically get there. But as the saying goes, necessity is the parent of invention... First up, we’ll speak with Parks Victoria’s Mark Rodrigue, and Coastcare Victoria’s Be...

Dr Victoria Camilieri-Asch, researcher at QLD University of Technology will join us from sunny BrisVegas discussing her reseach into how Sharks and Rays smell - and don't say "terrible...". She would have been doing a "Pint of Science" chat in a pub for the festival in May pre-COVID but instead she joins us live (maybe not with a beer in our hands)... Dr Wing Chan from the University of Melbourne...

In his April chapter of Cabin Boy Diaries, Brett talks about the Plimsoll Line, a vessel marking which has saved thousands of sailors from a watery grave, and has had some controversy to make it legislation. We'll catch up with Mark Rodrigue from Parks Victoria about some plans coming up for this year's 'Sharing the Love' gathering of coastal community advocates from all over Victoria. We’ll speak...

Estuaries in NSW are warming at twice the rate of oceans! Elliot Scanes from Sydney University joins us to talk about his recent research that uncovered this unnerving information. Then from Sydney to Perth... Ocean Mind is a wonderful program running out of Torquay and connecting young people experiencing mental health issues with the ocean. But now that group activities are out of the water for...

With cabin fever setting in for many of us, Brett’s March edition of Cabin Boy Diaries couldn’t be better timed. Stuck in his own cabin, Brett explores the etymology of the yacht, and the social standing of owning a yacht or a boat. Or a rubber ducky. Or a giant inflatable swan. Or whatever gets you on the water. AJ brings us up to speed on the work to protect the incoming spider crabs, plus a rep...

For our March edition of ‘Coastal Recovery’, we speak with Surf School Surf and SUP coach Rob in Broulee on the NSW South Coast. Coming up to nearly 3 months after the massive bushfires on New Year’s Eve, how are smaller coastal towns like Broulee recovering? What does the complication of CV19 mean for their recovery, and will well meaning tourists over Easter help or hamper the efforts of coastal...

Bron’s flying solo this week! Join her as she catches up with • Rex Hunter, Marinara’s maritime archaeologist and historian, about Hobson’s Bay on fire during the gold rush of the 1850s, when 9 vessels were burnt and sunk. Might there still be gold off Hobson’s Bay? • Associate Professor Dan Ierodiacanou about some exciting imagery of a newly discovered underwater landscape in the middle of Bass S...

It’s International Women’s Day, and Bron and Fam are acknowledging and celebrating this day with a focus on some extraordinary women doing extraordinarily good things to care for, understand, protect and respect our marine environment: Emma Webb, prosurfer, 2019 Pacific Longboard champion and founder of 'Wild Women on Water' joins us from Lorne to talk about women's competitive surfing - where it'...

Dr Beach and Anth are in the Marinara Fishbowl.

Dr Paul Carnell (Deakin University’s Blue Carbon Lab) will update us on sea urchin culling trials in Port Phillip Bay, plus seagrass loss at Corner Inlet and the implication(our Baykeeper) reports on Summer by the Sea, the upcoming Wooden Boat Festival in Geelong, and what's coming up in March. Plus Neil’s alterego Captain Trash reckons he’ll also pop in with his ‘Bamboozlarr’, a musical instrumen...