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.

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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.

Peter Benchley Awards: The Oscars of the Ocean

The unsung heroes and innovators on the front lines of protecting the marine world and its future.

The latest episode of Rising Tide the Ocean Podcast turns its attention to the 2026 Peter Benchley Ocean Awards, held this spring at the Monterey Bay Aquarium. The awards bear the name of the Jaws author who, haunted perhaps by the monster he'd created, devoted much of the rest of his life to defending sharks and the seas they swim in. Founded nearly two decades ago by Blue Frontier and Wendy Benchley, and now carried forward under the Aquarium Conservation Partnership, the awards have earned a reputation as the Oscars of the Ocean — with more than 80 honorees to their name.

The 2026 class is a wide-ranging one, drawn from the halls of government, the depths of science, the world of commerce, and the next generation stepping up to inherit an ocean under pressure. This year's winners include Julie Packard of the Monterey Bay Aquarium, President José Manuel Bolieiro of the Azores, California Congressman Jared Huffman, deep-sea scientist Dr. Diva Amon, ocean-minded business Bureo, activist Marcé Gutiérrez-Graudins, the sweeping documentary Ocean with Sir David Attenborough, and youth honoree Coji Senanayake — proof that the movement to protect the blue heart of the planet is neither slowing down nor running out of voices.

Paul Greenberg on Fishing, Writing, & Semiotics

David Helvarg and Vicki Nichols Goldstein have an engaging conversation with Paul Greenberg, author of the best-selling book ‘Four Fish’ and more recent writings including his latest novel ‘A Third Term’ (George Washington takes on Donald Trump). A Writer in Residence at the Safina Center, a former Pew Fellow and recipient of many honors, Paul discusses growing up fishing, his literary journey (with a short jaunt into Semiotics) how people’s habits and perceptions often differ from common environmental messaging they receive and why Bluefin Tuna give him hope for the future. Tune in for a thoughtful and thought- provoking conversation in depth with our guest Paul Greenberg.

Paul Greenberg — Paul writes at the intersection of the environment and technology, seeking to help his readers find emotional and ecological balance with their planet. He is the author of seven books including the New York Times bestseller Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food. His other books are The Climate Diet, Goodbye Phone, Hello World, The Omega Principle, American Catch, A Third Term and the novel, Leaving Katya.