Exploding Jellyfish, Marine Conservation and Sharks-3D
The Naked Scientists Podcast
Dr Chris Smith
4.6 • 957 Ratings
🗓️ 22 July 2006
⏱️ 58 minutes
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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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