Podcasts: February 2010

Diving Deeper: Value of Coral Reefs

Episode 20 | 02.24.10

Coral reefs are some of the most biologically rich and economically valuable ecosystems on Earth. They provide food, jobs, income, protection, and many other important services to billions of people worldwide. Learn more about the importance of coral reefs, what the current threats are, and what you can do to help in this interview with Kacky Andrews, director of NOAA’s Coral Reef Conservation Program. (16:39 minutes)

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Links:

NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program

Five Things You Should Know About Coral Reefs

The State of Coral Reef Ecosystems of the United States and Pacific Freely Associated States: 2008

NOS Education Corals Tutorial

Making Waves: Decoding the Secret Pathologies of Dolphins

Episode 45 | 02.18.10

This week, we take a virtual journey to the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). At the event, NOAA's Oceans and Human Health Initiative unveiled six new studies that offer new insights into how diseases found in dolphins and other marine mammals are similar to humans. In this episode, we talk with NOAA scientists about two of the six studies presented at the meeting. In our first story, we discuss unprecedented contaminant levels found in coastal dolphins in Georgia. In our second story, we look at new research that shows marine exposure to a type of toxic algae may cause epilepsy. (12 minutes)

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