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🗓️ 18 June 2025
⏱️ 85 minutes
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0:00.0 | Oh, hey, it's the waitress who forgot your margarita, Allie Ward, and you are here to learn about |
0:04.5 | farming stuff in the ocean or your home or lake or whatever. Last week, we got to the bottom |
0:10.5 | of how kelp sticks to the seafloor and what seaweed is and how it's not plants, but you can eat it. |
0:17.0 | And this week, as promised, we are diving into aquaculture, which is apparently very heated topic. |
0:23.3 | So I'm talking to a wonderful marine biologist. |
0:25.4 | I was lucky enough to meet and spend time with two years back. |
0:29.0 | I was on Catalina Island at USC's Riggily Institute for Environment and Sustainability. |
0:34.8 | There is a storymaker symposium they do where I was left on an island |
0:39.0 | with a bunch of climate scientists via Liz Neely and Ed Yong to give this talk on Saikom |
0:45.5 | to some people who were just trying to save planet Earth. It was a good time. They were all cool |
0:50.1 | as hell and I've interviewed several for this show, including this one, who studied biology |
0:54.9 | at Carleton College and then went on to get a PhD in ecology, evolution, and marine biology at |
1:00.3 | UC Santa Barbara. They are the lead scientist for the Ocean Health Index Project. They co-founded |
1:06.0 | the conservation aquaculture research team. They're a professor at UC Santa Barbara's Bren School of Environmental |
1:12.5 | Science and Management and the director of the UCSB National Center for Ecological Analysis and |
1:19.5 | synthesis. Now, on the island two years ago, we chatted next to a boat on a dock and I said, |
1:25.7 | I'm coming to your house to talk to you about farmed fish one day. |
1:28.8 | Deal with it. And they did. And here we are. And we're going to get to the episode in just a minute. |
1:32.8 | But first, thank you to all the patrons who set in questions for this episode. You can do so for |
1:36.9 | as little as a dollar a month via patreon.com.com. Thank you for wearing my name on your body via ologiesmerch.com. |
1:44.4 | And thank you for $0 for leaving reviews, which truly helped the show and my mental health |
1:51.2 | more than you'll ever know, such as this one from Cap Oney who wrote, this podcast is like |
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