coral reef

In this episode of the Travel Insider Podcast, we're heading to Pompano Beach on the south-east coast of Florida.  Set between Fort Lauderdale and West Palm Beach, the city has three miles of sandy beaches lapped by some of the warmest, clearest waters in the area.

Joining our host Rebecca Miles to talk about the warm welcome vistors will recieve are Rita Wells, Tourism Marketing Manager at Pompano Beach, and Jeff Torode, owner of the South Florida Dive Headquarters. Hugely important to the destination is how accessible it is, as well as the coral reef and fish sanctuary, while on land there's world-class dining and shopping, festivals, concerts and vibrant nightlife.

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John's guest is drummer and songwriter Roger Guth, best known for his 34 years playing drums for Jimmy Buffett and his Coral Reefer Band. Roger talks about how he began working with Jimmy in 1989, collaborating as a songwriter, playing with Paul McCartney on "My Gummies Just Kicked In" his solo jazz projects and much more! Watch the behind the scenes video https://youtu.be/PU-eJWPXhr8?si=k5ITXfmLAAloPBo2 

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Welcome back to Environmental Professionals Radio, Connecting the Environmental Professionals Community Through Conversation, with your hosts Laura Thorne and Nic Frederick! 

On today’s episode, we talk with Marilu Cristina Flores, Founder, Conservation Key about the Film Industry, Taking Bold Career Leaps, and Conservation Key.   Read her full bio below.

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3:03  Nic & Laura talk about bad mentors
9:04   Interview with Marilu Cristina Flores starts
9:20   Film Industry
18:44  Taking Bold Career Leaps
29:48   Conservation Key
48:22   Field Notes
51:11   More Bold Leaps

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Guest Bio:
Marilu Cristina Flores is an award-winning filmmaker, coral researcher, and recipient of the 2021 Go Blue Ambassador of the Year Award.  Recognized as a Hispanic Ocean Conservation Hero in 2021, she holds a certificate degree from the University of Queensland in Tropical Coastal Ecosystem Resource Management and served the Surfrider Foundation as Regional Coordinator and then Manager from 2018 - 2022.

During her time with Surfrider, Marilu helped community activists pass over 50 ordinances to protect our marine and coastal ecosystems and in 2021, she was appointed to serve the Southeast Coral Reef Initiative (SEFCRI) as an NGO/nonprofit partner for five years. 

Marilu is the founder of Conservation Key, a project-based, IRS recognized nonprofit; founded on the hope that with our intervention, coral reefs can and will survive for the next generation.

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Outro: Never Ending Soul Groove by Mattijs Muller

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Take a 30-minute long-haul holiday and visit Queensland, Australia in this episode of Charitable Travel's TIPs! Join us as we speak to Kate Duffy of Tourism and Events Queensland, and Johnny Gaskell a marine biologist and master reef guide, for an insider's guide to this tropical region and all it has to offer. 

While Queensland is home to some inspirational cities such as Brisbane and Cairns it also has a staggering 4,000 miles of coastline, off which lies its most famous landmark, the Great Barrier Reef, the world's largest coral reef.

To the south of the state, you'll find the Gold Coast and the Sunshine Coast where surfers flock to the sandy beaches. Travel further north and you'll cross the tropic of Capricorn before reaching the Daintree rainforest, the oldest living rainforest in the world. While that glorious coastline has a habit of dominating things, venture inland and you'll find ancient landscapes, remote, gorgeous, and national parks teaming with wildlife.

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When you think of Australia's most famous coral, the Great Barrier Reef likely comes to mind. 

But there's a coral reef ecosystem in the north of WA that also deserves attention.

Today, Zoe takes us on a journey to the corals of the Kimberley region, to tell us why they give her hope for the future of coral populations globally.

Shellfish reefs once framed Australia’s coastline from Noosa to Perth, but today they’re considered functionally extinct. So why are some researchers turning to music to bring these decimated habitats back to life?

This week, we’re heading to the ocean floor to learn more about the reef restoration projects that are springing up around the country, and how music designed for oysters is playing a crucial role. 

Join host Professor Andy Lowe in conversation with Dr Dominic McAfee, an award-winning marine biologist from the University of Adelaide, who’s figured out exactly what tunes to play to get these reefs going again.  

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The tea is brewing and we're off to the deepest blue oceans this week to share our favourite scuba stories.  With Keith being a Master Dive Instructor, you are in for a treat as he shares his own experiences with sharks, a curious strobing cuttlefish, crocodiles and much more.  So pour yourself a large cuppa, and settle in to join Keith and Nikki as they discuss what exactly is the "martini effect", and some great dive stories from famous authors who are also divers, plus some personal insights about how special diving actually is.   All roads and more lead to the deep . . . !

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In our third episode looking at ocean-related issues facing the eastern Caribbean island nation of Barbados, released in the run-up to the UN Oceans Conference, we turn to the issue of the coral reef. Barbados’s reef has been declining for decades, hit by decades of pollution and the climate crisis. CORALL, a volunteer organization supported by the UN, is showing that it is possible to bring life back to the reef, by carefully growing coral in nurseries off the coast. Conor Lennon from UN News went to visit the nurseries, to find out if it will be possible to bring the reef back to its former glory. Music: Within the Earth, Ketsa

Emily Darling & Kim Fisher both work at the Wildlife Conservation Society, respectively as the Director of Coral Reef & as Spatial Analyst. They have developed MERMAID, a platform enabling coral reef scientists to aggregate & share their data together.  One of the main challenges they tackle being most measurements need to happen in the field as opposed to being able to leverage satellite imagery. 

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Shownotes

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• Wildlife Conservation Society
• Allen Coras Atlas
• SparkGeo
• Books & Podcast Recomendations:
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  • Where should we begin
  • Song Exploder
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  • Here GOES Radiotelescope
  • Mannahatta/Welikia:
    • book: https://www.amazon.com/Mannahatta-Natural-History-York-City/dp/1419707485/
    • website: https://welikia.org/

Timestamps

• 00:00 - Introduction
• 03:07 - Kim & Emily presenting themselves
• 07:49 - Computer Science & Data at the service of Science
• 17:30 - A symbiotic relationship Software Engineering & Marine Biology
• 23:38 - High level overview of what MERMAID is
• 26:52 - What problem does MERMAID solve?
• 32:28 - Getting traction on a scientific tool
• 37:37 - Stories on top of the data
• 46:00 - Another simple question: Why is coral reef important?
• 49:55 - Working with Policy Makers
• 55:28 - Coral Reef is still measured with pen & paper
• 1:01:55 - Partnering with SparkGeo, a geospatial consultancy
• 1:10:54 - Thinking about projects over the long term
• 1:12:45 - Financing a Non-Profit project
• 1:19:40 - Transparency in Non-Profits through Open-Source
• 1:25:45 - The impact of Data Science on Emily’s work
• 1:29:01 - Book & Podcast Recommendations

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Happy Chinese New Year of the Tiger, deep coral reef discovered near Tahiti, funny animal rescue false alarms, plus our Around the World in 80 seconds news wrap and our five fab background facts from this week’s stories!

In this week’s show, a wonderful coral reef discovery in the South Pacific, and the far from wonderful country-wide jobs crunch in Afghanistan, as the economy nosedives. In Africa, there’s been a “significant drop” in new cases of COVID, the UN health agency has said, but it’s no time for complacency.

And searing memories of the Holocaust from the last remaining survivors, as told to film producer Sophie Nahum; plus a famous poem by Mario Benedetti to put everything into context for us.  

Join Ellen & marine biologist Rosie Steinberg for a review of some beautiful animals that you might not have even known were animals: carnation corals! We talk about the living Ship of Theseus, what a coral smells like, intense turf wars being fought in super slow motion, and life as a hivemind of squishy clones.

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Part of an exquisite coral atoll off the east coast of Zanzibar, &Beyond Mnemba Island is known for its warm, clear waters and the abundance of marine life off its shores. Dive Centre Manager Chris Barfoot speaks about what divers and snorkelers can hope to experience in the balmy waters surrounding the island. Listen to him explain how the Mnemba Island team works with Oceans Without Borders to help preserve this magnificent environment. Beginners can hear about the tranquil underwater world that tempts so many Mnemba guests to take their first steps into scuba at the island’s PADI-accredited Dive Centre. Experienced divers will find out more about dive conditions, visibility and what marine species can be encountered while diving off Mnemba.

Microbes are critically important to the health of a coral reef.

Happy New Year! Good Riddance to the old, and let's pretend for a few days that this one might be better! Might!

This week we zoom out to take a peek at the year ahead, specifically at the goings-on in Parresari. We consider important questions like:

• What seasons are there in Parresari? What do they look like?
• When do the treasure hunters arrive?
• Why are shipwrights setting fire to their own vessels?
• How do you milk a giant bat? 

All this and more. Enjoy!

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Ancient creatures hide on Tasmania's secret reefs.