Episode 5: Margaret Leinen discusses health of the oceans

STEM-Talk

Dawn Kernagis and Ken Ford

Natural Sciences, Alternative Health, Science, Health & Fitness, Nutrition

4.7 • 706 Ratings

🗓️ 29 March 2016

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Margaret Leinen is a big name in oceanography. She’s the director of the Scripps Oceanographic Institute and vice chancellor of marine sciences at Scripps. She was previously assistant direct of the National Science Foundation, where she worked with IHMC CEO and Director Ken Ford, who calls her “one of the most effective and most pleasant assistant directors of NSF.” Leinen’s interest in science started early: In high school, she became interested in geology and the history of the earth. When she discovered oceanography in college, she never looked back. In this episode, Leinen talks about her first dive in the Pacific, where she stumbled onto a huge hydrothermal vent system teeming with worms, clams and other colorful life forms. She also addresses current and future threats to the ocean, a non profit she established to look into mitigating the effects of climate change, and the overall resilience of the oceans. Host Dawn Kernagis, whose own interest in becoming a scientist—started with her childhood fascination with the ocean—conducts this interview.

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0:00.0	I don't always listen to podcasts, but when I do, I listen to STEM talk, interviewing the most interesting people in the world of science and technology.
0:14.5	Stay curious, my friends.
0:19.8	Welcome to STEM Talk. Stem Talk, STEM Talk, STEM Talk, STEM Talk.
0:21.1	Stem Talk.
0:21.6	Stem Talk.
0:22.6	Stem Talk.
0:23.6	Stem Talk.
0:24.6	Welcome to STEM Talk, where we introduce you to fascinating people who passionately inhabit the scientific and technical frontiers of our society.
0:32.6	So I'm very excited today to talk with Dr. Margaret Linen and I have with me Dr. Ken Ford,
0:40.7	who is IHMC's director.
0:42.5	Thanks, Don.
0:43.5	It's really great that you'll be interviewing Margaret today.
0:47.5	She's just fascinating.
0:49.2	She's actually kind of a personal hero of mine, given her background in oceanography and her diving experiences, which she'll
0:55.8	share with us in today's interview. But can you actually have a history with Dr. Linum working together
1:01.9	and serving together at the National Science Foundation, don't you? Yes, and Margaret was the
1:07.0	assistant director at the time, and I was on the National Science Board. And so we
1:13.1	interacted a good bit. And I can just say that among the assistant directors, she was one of
1:19.4	the very most effective and most pleasant to interact with.
1:23.1	Well, that's a unique set of characteristics, I think, for someone in a leadership and policymaking position.
1:30.3	So after she was at the National Science Foundation, she moved to Harbor Branch
1:34.7	Oceanographic Institute here in Florida.
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