Janina is a self-proclaimed activist that has turned her passion for art into action for the ocean. Do you love reading ocean-inspired books to your children? Or admiring mesmerizing fine art? Because Janina Rossiter's journey includes self-published books for children, working together with schools, and spreading the plight of our oceans through social media. Her Instagram is a snapshot of the beauty she creates and her love for the ocean is palpable through her drawings.

55 How art can turn into ocean activism with Janina Rossiter

How do you find work in ocean conservation? Are there internships and job opportunities available? How should people get involved if they want to help the sea? These are just some of the topics we cover with Abbie Hine from Wise Oceans. This incredible woman has built a business in ocean conservation and has dedicated the past 10 years of her life to help others do the same. With her projects spanning the world and encompassing education, coral plantations, and science communication her work is exactly what we need more of. Even in a Covid world, there are still chances for you to get involved and learn from people like her.

56 How to Find work in Marine Conservation with Wise Oceans

This podcast is a repost from the Youtube channel Ocean Pancake. I wanted to share my thoughts on the recent documentary named Seaspiracy that has been making waves since it has appeared on Netflix. Did the documentary accurately present facts? Did it put blame on the correct parties? Did it provide achievable solutions to the problems facing our oceans? This podcast is the problem with Seaspiracy from an ocean activist. As a conclusion the problem is it's very nuanced and cannot be solved by one solution. We should all start by not eating fish and continue to vote for the future we want to live in.

57 The Problem With Seaspiracy From An Ocean Activist

Why is seagrass crucial for our planets natural carbon cycle? How do we protect the biodiversity of seagrass? How is seagrass affected by fertilizer? What can we do to help protect our coastal environments? In todays episode with Mark Parry who is the Development Officer at the Ocean Conservation Trust, we chat about all things seagrass. This has been one of the head projects that focuses on education, conservation, and collaboration. Seagrass has recently gained some notoriety and is finally getting the attention it deserves. While it may not be as topical or well known within conservation as Coral Reefs, the Ocean Conservation trust has worked with scientists and divers to create citizen science projects and improve our knowledge and understanding of the sea.

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58: Why seagrass is vital to slow Climate Change with Mark Parry

Women Mind the Water is an organisation to high light the stories of women and the ocean. Pam Ferris used her many skills and connections to build a community of ocean loving women to promote our seas. Through stories, art, and collaboration Pam highlights the amazing work female ocean activists do in their own communities to share the love for the ocean. With designs featuring famous sea animals, Women Mind the Water is a podcast and place to bring people with the same mission together.

59 : How Women Mind the Water uses storytelling to Protect Oceans

Do you love walking and talking about Science? Scott Chavi took the quarantine situation in the UK and turned it into a country wide Non for Profit. The Plover Rovers is an organization that has scientists and science students walk the coast of the United Kingdom to raise awareness and community knowledge about our coasts/ With the four prong approach, Plover Rovers focus on Heritage and Storytelling, Science Communication, Art and Emotion, in addition to activism. Learn how you can get involved and use the collaboration between individuals to protect our coasts.

60 Walk the UKs coast for Marine Science with Plover Rovers

How does freediving contribute to conservation? How does community work together to boost sustainability? How does tickling seagrass help replant seagrass meadows? Tania Douthwaite from Blueback Freediver and Yoga, Ozfish Seeds for Seagrass and the Fremantle Film festival joins us on Ocean Pancake to share her knowledge and wisdom about how the community is key to building sustainable marine systems.

62 How Tickling Seagrass Can Help Restore a Marine Ecosystem with Tania Douthwaite

How much waste do we really create? Can we live in modern society in a concious manner? How do we tackle consumerism and climate grief? Laura in Waterland used to be a shoppaholic. Could you believe that? I hardly could. After some soul searching and research, she transformed her view of materialism to become a concious consumer. Now she is a driver of change and an ocean activist that reminds us every day, that little things when combined can make a difference. In this episode, we catch up with Laura (she was on episode 8) and what she has been working on for the past few years.

61 Laura in Waterland from Shopaholic to Conscious Consumer?

How do polar regions impact our climate? What microorganisms are hiding beneath the surface? How come polar tourism has increased so much in the past few years? and What jobs can you do to help our planet that are not science? Emily Chen joins us today taking a break from her PHD work at the Ocean Institute in Poland to discuss her passions for mixing social and hard sciences. She is an advocate for collaborative thinking in face of the wicked problems of marine conservation and climate change. She shares her experience on her academic journey, the fascinating project she is working on and some insights into polar science.

63 How Polar Regions and their Micro Organisms are crucial in Climate with Emily Chen

Why are coral reefs so crucial to the health of our planet? How does coral restoration help remote communities? What are the problems facing our reefs? What is being done to protect and bring back healthy reefs?

In this episode of Ocean Pancake Podcast, Patricia Zwolinski is a Master's student and an eager ocean conservationist chats about all things coral reefs in the Philippines and Florida. Patricia believes in education and collaborating between different individuals to strengthen our understanding and connection with the ocean. Learn all about NGOs and how outreach can help our world's marine systems.

65 Why is Coral Restoration crucial Patricia Zwolinski?

How does Tiktok help with marine conservation? How can creating connections with our audience help bring people to scuba diving? How does someone get involved in Aquarium aquaculture? Are Aquariums a positive thing for conservation? How Olivia from Fully Submerged joins the Ocean Pancake Podcast to share her experience as an 

Aquarium Safety Diver and a Staff Instructor. Katt and Olivia chat about all things instructor life, what it's like quitting the dive industry and scuba diving for fun.

64 All About Aquarium diving with Fully Submerged

How is scientific illustration different from creative art? What animal in the ocean is the most inspirational for artists? How to become a scientific illustrator with Janavi Kramer? How does someone become an ocean storyteller? How does art help up protect our oceans?

66 How to Become a Scientific Illustrator with Janavi Kramer

What makes someone passionate about removing plastic from our production chains? Is it possible to create sustainable alternatives to plastic? Why is plastic so ubiquitous in our world? How do different countries deal with plastic? Are we really recycling it? These are just some of the many questions Katt from Ocean Pancake and Tom from Honest Ocean discuss in todays episode. The Ocean Plastic Recovery has a long way to go, but Honest Oceans is dedicated in creating a cyclical industry with more transparency in consumer products. Removing Ocean Plastic from the sea is really hard, and Tom explains all the costs and steps to cleaning up our seas.

67 How Ocean Plastic Recovery is an on going battle with Honest Ocean

Growing coral from fragments to mature corals that are reproductively viable is one of the core missions of Reef Restoration Foundation. How do they choose what corals they will grow in their nurseries? How do they know where to outplant them? How can people join in and contribute? Ryan, the CEO of Reef Restoration Foundation joins us for a special episode to discuss the first-ever coral spawning on the Great Barrier Reef from corals that have been grown and outplanted by Reef Restoration Foundation. Building resilience on our reefs to protect them from future bleaching events is one of the key goals of RFF.

68 First Coral Spawning from Outplanted Corals by Reef Restoration Foundation

Great White Sharks have gripped the pop culture mindset since the release of JAWS. Now they're the most feared and revered apex predators in our ocean. Doctor Heather Bowlby has been studying Great White Shark life cycles, mortality, and populations in Canada for the past several years. What is a Great White Shark Lifeline? What are the Mortality rates? How do we study Great White Sharks? Why are they crucial to our ocean ecosystems.

69: Great White Shark Life and Death with Doctor Heather Bowlby

Did you know we live in Kelp country? That you can eat all kelp? That Giant Kelp is the home to thousands of species yet 95% of the Giant Kelp Forests have gone missing in Tasmania. In this mini series featuring Tasmania's Giant Kelp, Dr Aaron Eger shares a snippet of his knowledge. We also now have a Youtube Channel!

70: You're living in a Kelp Country and do not even know it with Dr Aaron Eger

Why are giant kelp forests so important to our ecosystems? What can we do to help protect them? Dr Scott Bennett shares his insights as one of the founders of the Great Southern Reef foundation and a Marine Scientist at the University of Tasmania.

70 Giant Kelp Forests can grow half a meter per year with Dr Scott Bennett

Join Scuba Instructor and conservationist Katt Andryskova who speaks to Marine Biologist Maria Pinto about her PhD studies and take on the ocean crisis. 

Can bacteria be a potential solution to solve the plastic crisis? 
What does a day in her life look like?
Do you know in which moment plastic leaches into water?

Here on Ocean Pancake we discuss environmental topics with eco conscious thought leaders, who lend their expertise to give us the best tips on how to live a more turquoise life.
Blue for our ocean, green for our earth..  get it?

Can Bacteria solve the Plastic Issue? With Maria Pinto

1: Can Bacteria solve the Plastic Crisis? With Maria Pinto

What is the connection between sharks, livers, and killer whales? This week Phillip Oppermann shares probably my favourite ocean facts with me while discussing experience in Shark Conservancy in South Africa. How did a non marine biologist get the opportunity to work with sharks? What does a typical day look like for volunteers? How does tagging great whites look like? Learn how you can get involved and help save sharks today. Part 1

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5: Study and Save Sharks in South Africa with Philipp Oppermann

Have you always wanted a career in ocean conservation? In this week's Ocean Pancake Podcast, Philipp Opperman discusses how he got into working with Shark Conservancy and other conservation efforts without being a Marine Biologist. We also touch upon seeing Great White Sharks underwater, treating yourself as a brand to maximize your potential to help the planet, along with worthwhile investments into your future. Is a university degree necessary to help our planet? Are eco-volunteering opportunities valuable? What should people look into if they want to jump into working to save our seas? This is part 2 of the interview, and you should definitely check out part 1 where Philip lets us in on what it's like working with sharks in South Africa.

6: How to Work in Conservation with Philipp Opperman

Which should you pick? University or becoming a scuba diving instructor? How can you boost your value in the dive industry? Is it a worthwhile career? What really makes a good dive course. This, and many other topics are what David Girsh and I cover in this weeks episode of the Ocean Pancake Podcast. David is an SSI, SDI, PADI Instructor along with a world traveller, photographer, ocean conservationist, and earth lover. He shares how he started from a notice diver to someone who gets to travel the world to dive and work with humpback whales, manta rays, and spectacular locations. @david_girsh
Thank you to @grahammoes for his epic music

7: How to Stand Out in the Dive Industry with David Girsh

Sea Shepherd's Apex Harmony campaign aims to protect sharks to help preserve the balance in the oceans. Jonathan Clark is the coordinator for this campaign and joins me today to tell us all about shark nets, drum lines, nonlethal shark methods, and what the data tells us. The Queensland Government is spending upwards of $4 million dollars every year on the shark control program, which has no scientific evidence that it makes our beaches safer while killing thousands of protected species since the 70s. Listen in to learn exactly what is happening off the coast of Queensland, why we need to defend sharks, and what you can do to help.

9: Do Shark Nets Make Our Beaches Safer With Sea Shepherd's Jonathan Clark

Have you heard about the disease that might wipe out coral reefs around Florida? The Stony Coral Tissue Loss disease flared up in 2014, and since then has progressed despite scientist's attempts to stop its spread. Tanya Ramseyer is the Coral Rescue Project Coordinator who is working with a team and holding facilities all over the USA to collect healthy coral samples and keep them safe until this disease disappears. Tanya describes how her and her team collect healthy coral from the reef, and then transport it to land-based facilities. This helps them create a gene bank of coral reefs just in case the disease does not stop spreading. This will help preserve genetic diversity, and the team has so far collected 1,700 out of 4,400 samples of coral fragments that can spawn. Learn more about how this disease is affecting over 20 species of coral, why a gene bank of corals is important, and the impacts of nutrients, fertilizers, and runoff have on our ocean's reef.

20: The Coral Disease that's wiping out Reefs in Florida with Tanya Ramseyer

Can we still eat fish and consider ourselves environmentalists? If we do want to protect the oceans, should we be eating wild or farmed fish? How do fisheries manage to get out into the high seas to fish the target species? And what measures have governments taken to protect our seas. These and more questions are just some of the things we touch upon with Rebecca Daniels from Marine Diaries. In this episode of Oceans Today, you will learn about the dangers of farmed fishing, what methods are the most sustainable, and what you can do as a consumer to protect our oceans. As always, we learn about by catch, laws, target species, and the impacts on our planet as a whole.

27: Oceans Today : Why No Fishing is Sustainable

Is working in animal conservation always on the front lines? Do you get the opportunity to work with animals? Are university degrees neccessary to get work in this field? What are the biggest sacrifices you have to make for animal conservation? Working in animal conservation isn't always what you imagine, at the front lines like Jane Goodall. With Biologist and earth warrior Sarah Ghys we discuss her journey of working with animals all over the world and how people can achieve similar jobs. She has worked with everything from cheetahs to sea turtles. Join us today to learn what it will take if you want to create positive change for animals on our planet. Thank you to Graham Moes for the Music.

28: The Sacrifices You Make For Working in Animal Conservation with Sarah Ghys

Did you know about the longest running marine cull spanning from 1937 to now along the East Coast of Australia? It has been targetted to kill sharks, but not any sharks, 19 target species. Holly Richmond, Marine Biologist, and Adre Borell join forces to create the Envoy Cull film to shed some light on this event.  Andre Borell is the Creative Director, while Holly Richmond is one of the faces of shark protection. She has her own documentary The Shark Net Film. In this episode we talk about shark nets, drum lines, why protecting sharks is vital, how fish and shark numbers relate, and what people are doing to protect our oceans. We also touch upon commercial fishing and recreational fishing, the side effects of baiting hooks, and how small caught sharks may actually attract larger sharks.

36: More Sharks Means More Fish In The Ocean With Envoy Cull

Did you know that farmed fish is still fed wild caught fish? This means your carbon footprint of consuming fish may be larger than you imagined. We chat to Rachel Mulrenan from Changing Markets about their report 'Caught Out : How UK retailers are tackling the use of wild fish in their aquaculture supply chains'. We discuss what supermarket chains do to push farmed sea food, how transparent they are with supply chains, and the economical, environmental, and social impacts of wild fishing.

37: How much Wild Caught Fish is Farmed Fish Consuming with Changing Markets?

Humpback Whales are the face of successful conservation. Why is that? What changed people's minds from killing whales to protecting them? How did people learn about humpback whales intelligence? How do Humpbacks communicate, mate, and give birth? and what can filming these incredible creatures teach us about the beautiful underwater world? Chris Cilfone from Koloha Film project joins us to chat about all things humpback whales and takes us on an adventure learning about these magnificent creatures.

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41 : How Humpback Whales Wrote a Song to Save their Species

Did you know that improving herbivore numbers on reefs can significantly boost coral reef health? Horse shoe crabs are one of these key species, and they can boost coral growth 3 to 5 times! Samantha Glover takes us through her research and experience with Coral Reefs and Fisheries. In this weeks episode we chat about all things fisheries laws, conservation strategies, and breeding horse shoe crabs!

53: Horse shoe crabs can boost reef health with Samantha Glover

Have you considered your carbon footprint? We may look at our driving habits, our food consumption, our plastic use, or purchasing history. However, why is it that so many of us refuse to look at the footprint caused by our travel? Earthwandress decided to ask herself that question, and now lives what she preaches. For the past several years any travel she has undertaken, she has organized by land. Buses, trains, bikes, and abstaining from overseas holidays is how she achieved this. Today we talk about what brought her to this decision, how she does travel, and how else she minimises her carbon footprint. This is an absolute must listen to episode!

54: Stay On The Ground And Quit Flying With Earthwandress

Dive into conservation, sustainability and the conversation with fellow eco-warriors. Ocean Pancake is a place to learn, question and create waves of change together. Katt Andryskova works to bring people together to protect the marine ecosystems, find alternatives to plastic and find sustainable solutions. If you love the ocean, then this is the podcast for you!

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