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Marine Conservation Happy Hour

Mar 13, 2024

Dr Scarlett Smash & Dr Craken MacCraic discuss the recent right whale stranding in Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts and the continuing threat that shipping and lobster gear entanglement poses to endangered North Atlantic right whales.

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Mar 6, 2024

Dr Scarlett Smash & Dr Craken MacCraic chat to Dr. Luis Huckstadt about his research in Antarctica on the crabeater seal. What is it like to do research at the south pole and how does the life of a crabeater seal differ from other polar seals?

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Feb 28, 2024

Dr Scarlett Smash & Dr Craken MacCraic chat to Dr Mike Tift about his research on the physiology of marine mammals and the effects that their deep-diving life style have on them. Did you know elephant seals have so much carbon monoxide in their bodies it's like they smoked two packets of cigarettes a day?  Find out  how...


Feb 21, 2024

Dr Scarlett Smash & Dr Craken MacCraic  talk about the recent (allegedly) sighting of a baby Great white shark. Is it really the first sighting of a newborn great white?

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Osprey decline in the Chesapeake Bay

Feb 14, 2024

Dr Scarlett Smash & Dr Craken MacCraic are in Colonial Williamsburg visiting taverns and Dr Smash is four sheets to the wind. In this episode they talk about the dramatic decline in Chesapeake Bay ospreys. #drunkmarinescience

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