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Science Podcasts

Interviews That Make Waves

Location:

Canada

Description:

Interviews That Make Waves

Language:

English

Contact:

2502030963


Episodes

Melody Horrill: On Saving Dolphins and Her Book About The Dolphin Who Saved Her

1/26/2024
Jonathan Mesulam @MesulamJonathan Founder and Coordinator of the West Coast Development Foundation in New Guinea talks with Skaana host Mark Leiren-Young @leirenyoung about the crucial fight to stop Deep Sea Mining in his home - New Guinea - and around the world.

Duration:00:39:51

David Shiffman: On Jaws, Sharknados, Megalodon-Mania and Shark Week Vs. Sharks

1/12/2024
Jonathan Mesulam @MesulamJonathan Founder and Coordinator of the West Coast Development Foundation in New Guinea talks with Skaana host Mark Leiren-Young @leirenyoung about the crucial fight to stop Deep Sea Mining in his home - New Guinea - and around the world.

Duration:00:38:33

Gloria Pancrazi: On Endangered Orcas, Endangered Humans and Making Movies that Change the World

12/24/2023
Jonathan Mesulam @MesulamJonathan Founder and Coordinator of the West Coast Development Foundation in New Guinea talks with Skaana host Mark Leiren-Young @leirenyoung about the crucial fight to stop Deep Sea Mining in his home - New Guinea - and around the world.

Duration:00:31:26

Danna Staaf: On Alien Octopuses, Squid Squads and Why Baby Animals Rule

10/18/2023
Jonathan Mesulam @MesulamJonathan Founder and Coordinator of the West Coast Development Foundation in New Guinea talks with Skaana host Mark Leiren-Young @leirenyoung about the crucial fight to stop Deep Sea Mining in his home - New Guinea - and around the world.

Duration:00:48:31

Jason Colby: On the Capture of Toki/Tokitae/Lolita/Sk’aliCh’elh-tenaut and How Penn Cove Almost Ended the Southern Resident Orcas

9/13/2023
Jonathan Mesulam @MesulamJonathan Founder and Coordinator of the West Coast Development Foundation in New Guinea talks with Skaana host Mark Leiren-Young @leirenyoung about the crucial fight to stop Deep Sea Mining in his home - New Guinea - and around the world.

Duration:00:26:05

Howard Garrett: On the Life and Death of the Orca Toki/Tokitae/Lolita/Sk’aliCh’elh-tenaut

8/31/2023
Jonathan Mesulam @MesulamJonathan Founder and Coordinator of the West Coast Development Foundation in New Guinea talks with Skaana host Mark Leiren-Young @leirenyoung about the crucial fight to stop Deep Sea Mining in his home - New Guinea - and around the world.

Duration:00:42:42

Rowena Rae on How We Can Save Salmon, the Fish Farm Jail-Break & Unlocking the Mysteries of a Keystone Species

8/16/2023
Jonathan Mesulam @MesulamJonathan Founder and Coordinator of the West Coast Development Foundation in New Guinea talks with Skaana host Mark Leiren-Young @leirenyoung about the crucial fight to stop Deep Sea Mining in his home - New Guinea - and around the world.

Duration:00:35:27

Alessandro De Maddalena on Hunting for the Perfect Shark Photo and the Orcas Hunting Great White Sharks

7/28/2023
Jonathan Mesulam @MesulamJonathan Founder and Coordinator of the West Coast Development Foundation in New Guinea talks with Skaana host Mark Leiren-Young @leirenyoung about the crucial fight to stop Deep Sea Mining in his home - New Guinea - and around the world.

Duration:00:51:01

Sean Holman on Fighting for Facts and Holding Onto Hope as the World Burns

7/12/2023
Jonathan Mesulam @MesulamJonathan Founder and Coordinator of the West Coast Development Foundation in New Guinea talks with Skaana host Mark Leiren-Young @leirenyoung about the crucial fight to stop Deep Sea Mining in his home - New Guinea - and around the world.

Duration:00:32:42

Decimating the Deep: The Dangers of Ocean Floor Mining With Jonathan Mesulam

6/21/2023
Jonathan Mesulam @MesulamJonathan Founder and Coordinator of the West Coast Development Foundation in New Guinea talks with Skaana host Mark Leiren-Young @leirenyoung about the crucial fight to stop Deep Sea Mining in his home - New Guinea - and around the world.

Duration:00:34:35

Sharks Don’t Want to Eat You! Mark Leiren-Young’s New Book Sharks Forever

3/15/2023
Skaana (@Skaanapod) host Mark Leiren-Young (@LeirenYoung) shares the introduction and opening chapter of his new book Sharks Forever: The Mystery and History of the Planet’s Perfect Predator. "If you swim in the ocean every day for 100 years, you are more likely to be struck by lightning than swallowed by a shark.” - Mark Leiren-Young from Chapter 1, Sharks Forever.

Duration:00:14:43

Shark Myths and Mysteries with Mark Leiren-Young

11/16/2022
Skaana (@Skaanapod) host Mark Leiren-Young (@leirenyoung) talks sharks, Sharkwater (@teamsharkwater) and politics with Joseph Planta (@Planta) on a special shared episode with Planta On the Line @TheCommentary.ca

Duration:00:38:36

Director Josh Zeman on a Lonely Whale, Lonely People and the Search for 52 Blue

11/2/2022
Director Josh Zeman (@joshzeman) on the quest for the loneliest whale in the world and shifting his focus from human mysteries to marine mysteries with his movie, The Loneliest Whale: The Search for 52. “Just when you think you’ve had too much devil-worshipping and serial killers, you go and you spend a day working on whales and everything’s okay again.”

Duration:00:33:00

Filmmaker Nadine Pequeneza On The Right Ways To Save Right Whales

10/7/2022
Filmmaker Nadine Pequeneza talks about meeting and fighting for the North Atlantic Right Whales Right Whales for her award-winning documentary, Last of the Right Whales, with Skaana (@Skaanapod) host Mark Leiren-Young (@leirenyoung).

Duration:00:42:29

Author Lynda V. Mapes on Saving Salmon and the Southern Resident Orcas

6/19/2022
Seattle Times (@seattletimes) environment reporter Lynda V Mapes (@LyndaVMapes) on dams versus salmon, saving the southern resident orcas and how Tahlequah changed the world. "All the things we do for our comfort, convenience and commerce are not good for the southern residents. And that’s just fact."

Duration:01:12:16

Ape Expert Frans de Waal Versus Anthropodenial

5/26/2022
Author and primatologist Frans de Waal talks about great apes, not-so-great humans, animal emotions and anthropodenial with Skaana (@Skaanapod) host Mark Leiren-Young (@leirenyoung).

Duration:00:58:27

Sea Shepherd Captain, Paul Watson, on saving salmon, aggressive nonviolence and his journey from outlaw to law enforcement. Part two of our special two-part interview.

4/3/2022
Sea Shepherd Captain, Paul Watson (@CaptPaulWatson), talks with Mark Leiren-Young (@leirenyoung) on getting political, remembering Rob Stewart, saving salmon with Alexandra Morton and the Sea Shepherd Navy!

Duration:00:31:35

Sea Shepherd Captain, Paul Watson, on Seaspiracies and the Smartest Species on Earth

11/17/2021
Sea Shepherd Captain, Paul Watson@CaptPaulWatson, talks with Mark Leiren-Young (@leirenyoung) about Seaspiracy, life as an outlaw and as a movie star, the impact of Covid on life in the oceans and whether whales are more intelligent than we are.

Duration:00:33:17

Meet the Orcas Who Hunt on Land! Guests: Josh McInnes & Justine Buckmaster

10/1/2021
Killer whales hunting on land? Josh McInnis (scientist) and Justine Buckmaster (naturalist) on their wild discovery that some Salish Sea orcas are hunting seals on the shores of Protection Island and how orcas continue to surprise us.

Duration:00:30:00

Alexandra Morton on fighting for sea-life, fighting against sea lice and the beauty of dancing, spawning salmon

8/15/2021
Eco-warrior, Alexandra Morton, on her fight to save wild salmon, being gaslit by the Canadian government and her adventures in Green politics. She also dares people to sue her over her essential new book - Not On My Watch: How a renegade whale biologist took on governments and industry to save wild salmon.

Duration:00:52:29