Rising Tide: The Ocean Podcast

Get your Blue Mind on with Dr. Wallace J. Nichols, marine biologist, water-lover, and turtle nerd. Hear about how he lost his home in the recent California Lightning Complex fires, and what happens to our brain when in and around the water. Rising Tide Podcast aims to give you information, inspiration, and motivation to tackle the challenges our oceans are facing. The oceans are rising, so are we!...

Entrepreneur Daniela Fernandez is one of those 30 under 30 folks you read about with a Silicon-Valley tech incubator for new companies that are all ocean friendly.  David talks to Daniela, founder of the Sustainable Ocean Alliance, about her life, love (of penguins), election demographics, seaweed plastic and other innovations and ideas. Rising Tide Podcast aims to give you information, inspiratio...

A lifelong Jersey Gal who grew up in an ocean loving family, Margo Pellegrino has paddled her one-woman outrigger canoe from Miami to Maine, Seattle to San Diego, New York to New Orleans and on other epic water journeys she shares with us.  Did we mention this famed endurance athlete is also outreach coordinator for Blue Frontier? Rising Tide Podcast aims to give you information, inspiration, and...

With an election less than 100 days away Ralph Nader offers his wisdom on how the ocean community can win its battles against offshore oil drilling and for healthy seas.  He also talks about giving voice to the ocean’s wildlife and we hear from a Weddell Seal. Rising Tide Podcast aims to give you information, inspiration, and motivation to tackle the challenges our oceans are facing. The oceans ar...

David talks with Jason Scorse and 16-year-old activist Charley Peebler about the newly released Ocean Climate Action Plan - Blue New Deal. As an added treat, they discuss spitting parrotfish and dancing octopuses. Rising Tide Podcast aims to give you information, inspiration, and motivation to tackle the challenges our oceans are facing. The oceans are rising, so are we! Learn more at bluefront.or...

While Sherman the Shark might spend the 4th of July brunching on “hairless beach apes,” who flock to the shore despite COVID, David talks with syndicated cartoonist and ‘Sherman’s Lagoon’ creator Jim Toomey about drawing, diving, sailing, the lighter side of ocean conservation, and why, when it comes to sea creatures such as vampire squid, God’s the best animator. Rising Tide Podcast aims to give...

David talks to artist and TV personality Danni Washington about the links between BLM protests, frontline communities of color, clean water, Gen Z, COVID-19, STEM for girls and boys, how to make science fun and more. Rising Tide Podcast aims to give you information, inspiration, and motivation to tackle the challenges our oceans are facing. The oceans are rising, so are we! Learn more at bluefront...

David talks story with Hawaii’s Nainoa Thompson, President of the Polynesian Voyaging Society and a master navigator who has sailed voyaging canoes across the Pacific and the world ocean using the ways and waves of his explorer ancestors. Rising Tide Podcast aims to give you information, inspiration, and motivation to tackle the challenges our oceans are facing. The oceans are rising, so are we! L...

Following a taste of our Ocean Climate webinar with Senator Jeff Merkeley (D-OR), David interviews 13-year-old Dakota Peebler (Heirs To Our Oceans), for her take on the state of the Ocean and chats with coral ecologist Dr. Nancy Knowlton on why she’s still optimistic. Rising Tide Podcast aims to give you information, inspiration, and motivation to tackle the challenges our oceans are facing. The o...

A blast from the past from Davy Jones Locker (actually David’s radio archives) includes a report on coral bleaching in Fiji 20 years ago.  Then don’t miss our talk with Serge Dedina, the famed Surfing Mayor of Imperial Beach and Executive Director of WILDCOAST. Rising Tide Podcast aims to give you information, inspiration, and motivation to tackle the challenges our oceans are facing. The oceans a...

We’re never socially distant from solutions - Hear from Mary Crowley, the mariner who’s removed tons of discarded fishing nets from the Ocean and reconnect with Vicki Nichols-Goldstein – who you heard in our pilot episode - founder of the Inland Ocean Coalition. Rising Tide Podcast aims to give you information, inspiration, and motivation to tackle the challenges our oceans are facing. The oceans...

Following a comment on the COVID-19 pandemic, the Ocean and Climate David introduces Time magazine’s ‘Hero of the Planet Dr. Sylvia Earle along with Nick Landon, a second year cadet at one of our little known U.S. Maritime Academies. Rising Tide Podcast aims to give you information, inspiration, and motivation to tackle the challenges our oceans are facing. The oceans are rising, so are we! Learn...

David interviews longtime New York Times reporter and author Ian Urbina about his best-selling book on our lawless seas from pirate fishing slaves to floating mercenaries to others he met during two years of at sea research. This podcast aims to give you information, inspiration, and motivation to tackle the challenges our oceans are facing. The oceans are rising, so are we! Learn more at bluefron...

Welcome to Blue Frontier's new podcast, Rising Tide, hosted by Blue Frontier's Executive Director, David Helvarg. You will meet today's ocean champions, including senators, scientists, surfers, and youth activists. We will cover a range of issues, including climate change, overfishing, and plastic pollution. This podcast aims to give you information, inspiration, and motivation to tackle the chall...