HOST Damond Benningfield
DISCUSSION
Pass the salsa and the bean dip, please! It’s time to try the latest chips. They’re crunchy and healthy. There’s just one little catch: They’re made from jellyfish. Few people […]
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
Plastic junk floats atop all the world’s oceans — cups, bottles, wrappers, bags, and a thousand other products. These bits of trash can be found just about anywhere, drifting with […]
HOST Damond Benningfield
DISCUSSION
One of the sleekest-looking dolphins is also one of the most elusive. It inhabits far-southern waters, where there are few people around to enjoy its beauty. Because of that, it […]
HOST Damond Benningfield
DISCUSSION
For some, “getting away from it all” might mean a trip to the South Pacific — some delightful tropical island far from the cares of everyday life. But really getting […]
HOST Damond Benningfield
DISCUSSION
A type of fish found off the southeastern coast of Australia isn’t much of a swimmer. Instead, it prefers to crawl along the ocean floor on fins that look a […]
HOST Damond Benningfield
DISCUSSION
People try to predict all kinds of things, from the weather to football scores — all with mixed results. Predictions of one phenomenon are usually pretty accurate: the tides. But […]
HOST Damond Benningfield
DISCUSSION
In January of 2013, at an auction in Tokyo, a sushi-restaurant owner paid one-and-three-quarter million dollars for a Pacific bluefin tuna. Not a boatload of them, mind you, but a […]
HOST Damond Benningfield
DISCUSSION
In July of 1969, a small submarine and its six-man crew got stuck. They didn’t run aground, though. Instead, they were caught in a swirling eddy in the Gulf Stream, […]
HOST Damond Benningfield
DISCUSSION
Seagrass beds provide a home for many species of fish. The fish can hide from predators in the blades of grass, and find food in the sand and mud on […]
HOST Damond Benningfield
DISCUSSION
You don’t need hurricanes, tropical storms, or nor’easters to get coastal flooding. It can happen in the middle of a sunny day, with not a storm cloud in sight. These […]