HOST Damond Benningfield
DISCUSSION
Hundreds of submarines glide through the world’s oceans. Most of them are military, but some sail for science. They measure temperatures and currents, sample the water, map the sea floor, […]
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
There’s an old saying that if life gives you lemons, make lemonade. Some folks in northeastern Canada are following that advice — with a twist. When life gives them icebergs, […]
HOST Damond Benningfield
DISCUSSION
Biologists have been sampling life in the Gulf of Mexico for decades. Yet they’re a long way from getting acquainted with everything that lives there. Consider a tiny shark that […]
HOST Damond Benningfield
DISCUSSION
A massive tsunami in northwestern Sumatra wiped out coastal villages for miles. Only one survived. But by a century later, its influence began to wane — the result of a […]
HOST Damond Benningfield
DISCUSSION
For the flashlight fish, school doesn’t end at night. In fact, the schooling is just getting started. The fish is one of the few known to congregate in schools at […]
HOST Damond Benningfield
DISCUSSION
When Hurricane Harvey hit Texas in 2017, it killed almost 70 people and inflicted more than a hundred billion dollars’ worth of damage. Not all of the damage was visible, […]
HOST Damond Benningfield
DISCUSSION
With a top speed of a few hundred feet per hour, the giant tortoise won’t win many races. Compared to some of the longest waves in the oceans, though, it’s […]
HOST Damond Benningfield
DISCUSSION
One Hurricane Katrina or Hurricane Harvey is a disaster. But having two such hurricanes hit the same area within a few weeks of each other is catastrophic. Coastal infrastructure is […]
HOST Damond Benningfield
DISCUSSION
For more than three months, giant kelp off the coast of California bobbed up and down like a pumpjack in an oil field. The goal of that motion was to […]
HOST Damond Benningfield
DISCUSSION
The Pacific coast of South America is a bit like a medieval castle surrounded by a moat. The “castle” is the Andes Mountains, which hug the coast. And the “moat” […]