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Ocean Protect Podcast

The health of our oceans is under major threat. Every fortnight, Brad Dalrymple (Environmental Engineer with Ocean Protect) hosts a variety of guests, including scientists, engineers, and activists – to discuss the key issues affecting the health of our oceans – and what can be done about it.This podcast is for anyone interested in learning more about the health of our oceans, the key pressures, and potential solutions. Disclaimer: This podcast is for general discussion purposes, and the views

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51:13

Professor Veena Sahajwalla is redefining 'waste'

Ocean Protect Podcast ·

2023/02/19

Professor Veena Sahajwalla is an expert in recycling, the founding Director of the Director of the Centre for Sustainable Materials Research & Technology at University of New South Wales - and, last year, added NSW Australian of the year to her long list of honours and awards. In this chat, we talk about reimagining 'waste' as an opportunity - drawing on Veena's experiences growing up in Mumbai to her pioneering micro-factories and green steel innovation. Useful links:Veena at UNSW

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52:01

Dr Charlene Trestrail on how the human body is...

Ocean Protect Podcast ·

2023/02/05

We kick off Season 5 with a fantastic chat with Dr Charlene Trestrail - a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Technology Sydney. Charlene's particular speciality is understanding how microplastics threaten the animals we need to keep our ecosystems healthy. In this chat, we take a journey through the digestive system (like a microplastic!) and talk about how the different organs in the body are affected by microplastics - and how to minimise our ingestion of microplastics.Useful links:Dr

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54:03

Kimberly Bolton is making alternative plastic...

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2022/11/27

Kimberly is the co-founder and CEO of Carapac - a company that takes waste crustacean shells and makes sustainable plastic alternative packaging. Frozen food processing plants across the Asia-Pacific region cumulatively produce about 8.1 million tons of crustacean waste per year. Carapac takes this otherwise 'waste' and makes truly biodegradable alternatives to petrochemical-based plastics.This fantastic story of innovation is an awesome way to wrap of our fourth season of the Ocean Protect Podcast

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37:44

Bridget Mullany on sustainability education

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2022/11/13

Bridget is a Sustainability Educator at Keep Australia Beautiful NSW (and PhD candidate at University of Technology Sydney), helping deliver the "EnviroMentors"program to improve community awareness and engagement on local sustainability issues and initiatives. In this chat, we talk about the "Keeping Waterways Clean" module aimed at preventing stormwater pollution, and other effective education methods for kids (and adults) to help save our planet. Ocean Protect has been proudly supporting the

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53:06

Marina DeBris on Artivism

Ocean Protect Podcast ·

2022/10/30

Marina is an Artivist, who began picking up trash on local beaches, creeks & streets over 20 years ago. In 2009, she began to create pieces of art that questioned the use of single use items and the amount of waste we create - and her work is exhibited regularly at galleries, 'trashion' exhibitions, 'inconvenience stores' and the current 'Sculptures by the Sea'. We chat about Marina's story, her perspectives from 20 years of picking up trash, artivism and animal welfare.Useful links:Marina

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51:05

Deep sea microplastics with Justine Barrett

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2022/10/16

Justine is a Research Technician with CSIRO's Marine Debris Group, where she established a method for detecting microplastics in deep-sea sediment and was subsequently the lead author of a paper publishing the first global estimate of microplastics in deep-sea sediment. We talk about deep-sea microplastics and helping to stop it 'at source' with gross pollutant trap sensors and AI technology.Useful links:Justine Barrett CSIRO profile (here)Justine's 'The Conversation' article "We estimate up to 14

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Craig Fairbaugh - Stormwater Rock Star

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2022/10/02

Craig Fairbaugh has gone from rock star to rock star stormwater engineer. After shredding the punk rock scene with bands like Transplants, +44, Juliette Lewis and the Licks, and Mercy Killers, Craig went on to even bigger and badder things - helping to protect the planet from stormwater pollution. As Regional Regulatory Manager at Contech Engineered Solutions in Oregon USA, Craig is a recognised expert in stormwater treatment, helping state and municipal agencies in achieving stormwater compliance

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59:47

Blacktown City Council's WSUD Compliance Program with...

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2022/09/18

Daniel Rider is the Water Sensitive Urban Design Compliance Officer at Blacktown City Council and is currently developing and implementing Australia’s first Water Sensitive Urban Design (WSUD) Compliance Program.In this chat, we talk about the role of stormwater management in protecting the health of our ocean and waterways, and Blacktown City Council's WSUD Compliance Program - which will no doubt help stop an ENORMOUS amount of pollution entering downstream waterways and hopefully be replicated in

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40:28

Local action on plastic pollution with Dr Kathy Willis

Ocean Protect Podcast ·

2022/09/04

Dr Kathy Willis is a Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Washington and CSIRO Scientific Researcher on a mission to combat plastic pollution and reframe plastic as a valuable commodity rather than a throwaway item. In Kathy's second appearance on the pod, we discuss the recent good news about plastic pollution on Australian beaches, spatial and temporal trends in plastic washing up on beaches along the US Pacific Northwest, citizen science, 'biofoul' on marine debris, and

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52:21

Smoke in the water with Shannon Mead

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2022/08/21

Shannon Mead is the Founder of "No More Butts", a charity who's mission is "A butt free environment" - where cigarette butts are recycled, with the products created having a further positive impact on the community. Shannon returns for his second appearance on the pod - dropping truth bombs about dropped cigarette butts, the emerging issue of vaping, and discussing possible solutions.Useful links:No More Butts website (here)Shannon on LinkedIn (here)Ocean Protect Podcast, Season 3, Episode 13 (May

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43:20

Shark defence with Jonathan Clark

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2022/08/07

Jonathon Clark is Queensland Coordinator of the Apex Harmony campaign - Sea Shepherd Australia's Shark Defence campaign to defend, conserve and protect sharks in order to maintain a healthy ocean. In this chat, we discuss the destructive nature of Queensland and NSW's state-sanctioned shark "control" programs and possible (and certainly more effective) methods to protect the safety and wellbeing of beach-goers and the marine ecosystem.Useful links:Jonathan on LinkedIn (here)The Apex Harmony

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54:36

The Lismore floods with Dr Mitchell Call & Dr James...

Ocean Protect Podcast ·

2022/07/24

Dr Mitchell Call and Dr James Sippo are postdoctoral researchers at Southern Cross University at Lismore, in Northern NSW, Australia. The Wilsons River flows through the city of Lismore to the Richmond River estuary. In late February 2022, the biggest flood in modern Australian history inundated Lismore and the rest of Northern NSW. In this chat, Mitchell and James describe the flood, the incredible rescue efforts, the subsequent estuarine health impacts, climate change, and what can be done to

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44:28

Kelp harvesting with Jo Lane

Ocean Protect Podcast ·

2022/07/10

Jo Lane is a kelp harvester and SeaEO of Sea Health Products, which provides premium kelp products harvested from the south coast of NSW. We talk kelp harvesting, the current status and potential of seaweed farming, the possible benefits and challenges facing the growth of the seaweed industry.Useful links:Jo on LinkedIn (here):Sea Health Products (here)Australian Sustainable Seaweed Alliance (here)For further information about Ocean Protect, check us out atwww.oceanprotect.com.au Hosted on Acast

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34:38

Ocean Protect turns 20

Ocean Protect Podcast ·

2022/06/26

On 5th July 2022, Ocean Protect turns 20 years old. From very humble beginnings, Ocean Protect now stops an average of around eight tonnes of pollution entering our oceans every day. Michael Wicks (Ocean Protect Director and co-founder) joins Jeremy and Brad for a look back at some of the highs and lows of Ocean Protect. For further information about Ocean Protect, check us out atwww.oceanprotect.com.au Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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35:07

A global plastics treaty with Tom Gammage

Ocean Protect Podcast ·

2022/06/12

Tom Gammage is a plastic pollution campaigner at the Environmental Investigation Agency in London, where he is working to secure an ambitious new plastics treaty for the planet. We talk about the growing plastics 'emergency', the need for a global plastics treaty, the recent meeting of the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA) in Nairobi to discuss such a treaty, and key recommended actions for government. Useful links:Tom on LinkedIn (here): Environmental Investigation Agency (here)Recent

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50:13

Tyres & coho salmon kills with Dr Ed Kolodziej

Ocean Protect Podcast ·

2022/05/29

Puget Soundis a sound of the Pacific Northwest (in north-western USA), an inlet of the Pacific Ocean, and part of the Salish Sea. Every 'fall' (Autumn), more than half of the coho salmon that return to Puget Sound’s urban streams die before they can spawn. In some streams, all of them die. But scientists didn’t know why. Enter Ed Kolodziej (Associate Professor at the University of Washington) and his research team - who discovered that, when it rains, stormwater flushes bits of aging vehicle tires

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53:00

Plastic discharges from the world's rivers with Dr...

Ocean Protect Podcast ·

2022/05/15

Tim van Emmerik is Assistant Professor at Wageningen University in the Netherlands, but joins us on this chat from Cambodia - during one of his riverine plastic research projects. We chat about the research paper that Tim recently co-authored assessing plastic discharges from rivers across the planet, and how to 'turn off the tap' of plastic pollution from rivers. Useful links:https://timvanemmerik.com/Garth on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/garth-covernton-26544ba9/Paper "More than 1000

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53:22

Human consumption of microplastics with Dr Garth...

Ocean Protect Podcast ·

2022/05/01

Dr Garth Covernton is a University of Toronto Arts and Sciences Postdoctoral Fellow working as part of thepELAstics project, which aims to understand how microplastics pollution might affect various ecosystem processes. We talk about the human consumption of microplastics - like "how much?", "where from?", and the potential consequences to human health. Useful links:https://garthcovernton.wordpress.com/ Garth on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/garth-covernton-26544ba9/Paper "Human

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49:47

Frontline Action on Coal with Andy Paine

Ocean Protect Podcast ·

2022/04/17

Andy Paine is from an organisation called Frontline Action on Coal, who use non-violent direct action tactics to try to stop the construction of polluting coal mines. Late last year, Andy and a colleague locked themselves to a train line to disrupt the first full trainload of coal from Adani's Carmichael mine in central Queensland, Australia. We talk about the Adani project, the effectiveness of 'frontline action', and what it's like to be locked to a train line. Useful links:Frontline Action on

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1:04:27

Dr James Sippo on blue carbon accounting

Ocean Protect Podcast ·

2022/04/03

Dr James Sippo is Postdoctoral Researcher in blue carbon at Southern Cross University, and is part of a team that has developed a new blue carbon accounting system that calculates the amount of carbon sequestered when tidal zones are returned to their natural state. We talk about blue carbon, its potential within coastal land for mitigating climate change, and reducing our own personal carbon footprint.Useful links:James on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/james-sippo-585a26191Article "Blue

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