Rising Tide: The Ocean Podcast
Podcast & Audio Production
Overseeing the Rising Tide: The Ocean Podcast's production, promotion, and strategic growth. Fluid Studios manages podcast development, from concept to publication, ensuring high-quality content that resonates with audiences. We develop social media and content marketing strategies to maximize engagement and reach. By collaborating with the Blue Frontier team, we maintain the podcast's vision, enhance its impact, and leverage analytics to optimize performance, drive continuous improvement, and contribute to the organization's dynamic leadership and innovative solutions.
A refreshing, irreverent dive into the lives, work, and explorations of today’s leading and diverse ocean voices.
Each half-hour episode co-hosted by David Helvarg of Blue Frontier and Vicki Nichols Goldstein of the Inland Ocean Coalition sails through lively discussions with our guests about marine life, culture, and critical issues affecting our rapidly changing seas. Informative, enlightening, and often humorous it is an invaluable resource for anyone passionate about understanding, enjoying, and protecting our salty blue world.
The Ever-Present Ocean: A Deep Dive into Kelp Forests with Dr. Aaron Eger
The latest episode of Rising Tide, the Ocean Podcast, host David Helvarg and oceanographer and Blue Frontier board member Joy Leilei Shih sit down with Australian-based scientist Dr. Aaron Eger, one of the world's top kelp researchers. Based at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Eger is the founder and program director of the global Kelp Forest Alliance, and lead author of three major scientific kelp reports published over the past four years — including one that pegs the value of the world's kelp forests at roughly half a trillion dollars a year.
The conversation ranges across kelp's outsized role in food and biodiversity, coastal protection, nutrient cycling and carbon reduction. Eger also recounts growing up along the coast of British Columbia and his early fascination with macroalgae — the ocean's answer to the world's great forests, though far less known for thriving unseen beneath the waves. He closes with a sobering look at the threats facing kelp forests today, and what can still be done to protect them.
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You can also listen to Rising Tide: The Ocean Podcast on a variety of platforms including Apple, Spotify, Amazon Music, Android, Pandora, iHeartRadio, Blubrry, Podchaser, Gaana, the Podcast Index, and Deezer. Additionally, the podcast is broadcast on several radio stations: KGUA Radio (Public Media for the Mendonoma Coast), KWMR (Point Reyes West Marin Community Radio), KGNU & KGNU-FM (Denver & Boulder Community Radio Stations), KKRN (Round Mountain California Listener Supported Radio), & G-TOWN RADIO (Germantown Community Radio, Philadelphia).
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