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The Naked Scientists Podcast

Exploding Jellyfish, Marine Conservation and Sharks-3D

The Naked Scientists Podcast

Dr Chris Smith

Science Radio, Engineering, Naked Scientists, Natural Sciences, Technology, Life Sciences, Health & Fitness, Medicine, Science

4.6957 Ratings

🗓️ 22 July 2006

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Marine biology and conservation specialist Dan Laffoley, from English Nature, and Chris Lynam, from the University of St Andrews join us to dissect the state of the worlds oceans and marine protected areas. From the conservation science institute in Alaska, Bruce Wright takes us on a tour of the world of salmon sharks, and in kitchen science we do battle against the atmosphere using a Magdeburg sphere. Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

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0:00.0

Stripping down science, the naked scientists.

0:07.0

This week we're going to immerse you in the science of the sea,

0:10.0

and specifically in endangered marine species

0:13.1

how we can conserve them and a jellyfish explosion off the coast of Africa.

0:17.0

No, we're not talking a jellyfish that literally exploded, it's a population explosion.

0:20.4

And here to help us with that this evening is from the University of St Andrews Dr.

0:24.4

Chris Lionham, hi Chris, thank you for coming in.

0:27.4

Dan Lefoli who's head of the marine conservation at English nature.

0:30.6

Hi Dan.

0:31.6

And joining us later on the phone we'll be talking to Dr Bruce Wright

0:34.6

who's from the Conservation Institute in Alaska and Bruce has been working on sharks

0:39.5

amongst other things and he'll be telling us about his work up there in the frozen north.

0:43.2

Ellen.

0:44.2

Thanks Chris yes tonight we will also be taking a step closer to tourism and

0:48.0

out of space with a prototype inflatable space hotel and how do you fancy

0:52.0

plugging yourself into a virtual world next time you go to the dentist

0:55.2

just to perhaps make your time a little bit more enjoyable while you're under the drill and

0:59.5

will also be revealing how bumblebees and wildflowers are taking a

1:03.6

an alarming nose dive together which could spell us big problems for pollination.

1:08.0

Also coming up later is this.

1:10.0

The Great White, where it's just coming straight to the camera.

1:13.1

It's one of those situations where you go,

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