HOST Damond Benningfield
DISCUSSION
Doctors sometimes run tests even when they know you’re just fine. The tests tell them how your body works when it is fine, making it easier to figure out what’s […]
Radio Program
Our regular Science and the Sea™ radio program presents marine science topics in an engaging two-minute story format. Our script writers gather ideas for the radio program from the University of Texas Marine Science Institute’s researchers and from our very popular college class, Introduction to Oceanography, which we teach to hundreds of non-science majors at The University of Texas at Austin every year. Our radio programs are distributed to commercial and public radio stations across the country.
HOST Damond Benningfield
DISCUSSION
Life can find a niche just about anywhere, from tall mountaintops to the bottom of the deepest parts of the ocean. And it doesn’t stop there. Microscopic organisms live in […]
HOST Damond Benningfield
DISCUSSION
The tasty fish known as red drum can be one of the loudest fish around — sometimes loud enough to hear from above the water. In fact, that’s where it […]
HOST Damond Benningfield
DISCUSSION
The world’s oceans just keep getting more polluted. That’s not good for anything living in them or near them — including people. In fact, ocean pollution may cause millions of […]
HOST Damond Benningfield
DISCUSSION
It’s a case fit for Sherlock Holmes: the case of the disappearing sharks. Almost 20 million years ago, about 90 percent of all sharks, and 70 percent of shark species, […]
HOST Damond Benningfield
DISCUSSION
A heat wave a few years ago off California’s Monterey Peninsula presented sea otters with a smorgasbord: an eruption of one of their favorite foods, sea urchins. And the otters […]
HOST Damond Benningfield
DISCUSSION
It’s illegal to own or transport many types of marine life. That’s usually either because a species is endangered, or because it could cause problems if it’s introduced into a […]
HOST Damond Benningfield
DISCUSSION
Blue whales are hidden giants. They’re the largest animals on the planet. But they’re shy, and they inhabit some of the most remote locations on the planet, so they’re hard […]
HOST Damond Benningfield
DISCUSSION
Every six hours or so, there’s a watery traffic jam in a narrow channel that connects two fjords in Norway. As the water piles up, it creates powerful currents and […]
HOST Damond Benningfield
DISCUSSION
Keeping a close eye and a firm hand on fish stocks seems to keep them in pretty good shape. On the other hand, not keeping an eye on them, and […]