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Our changing oceans : from Ancient Waters to Modern Crisis - Episode 1

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 Our changing oceans : from Ancient Waters to Modern Crisis APECS Podcast - Episode 1/3 Welcome to the first episode from the Polar Times mini-series: “Our changing oceans: from ancient waters to modern crisis”. This three-episode podcast series explores the complex relationship between humans and our polar environments. In the next episode, four guests from the British Antarctic Survey will discuss microplastics. Technical details : Podcast host : Nastasia Freyria, Nadia Frontier, Nathalie Nickells, Emilie Pillon and André Reis Editing : André Reis and Nadia Frontier Mastering : Nadia Frontier and Emilie Pillon Recorded on Monday 31st March 2025 with Riverside FM (thanks to BAS) Covert art : modified by Nastasia Freyria from original idea by Matthew Nelson, Nicholas Parlato, and Damien Ringeisen Music : "Scuba" by Metre, Nul Tiel Records, UK (unaltered) CC BY-NC-SA ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Nadia: Hello and welcome to another episode of Polar Times, bringing you science and stories from literally the coolest places on the planet! I am one of your co-hosts, Nadia Frontier, a masters student at the University of Glasgow and I used to work at the British Antarctic Survey where I was studying the fate of coastal seaweeds and invertebrate biology. In this episode I will be joined by four lovely people, Emilie: Hi I’m Emilie Pillon PhD student in Anthropology from Paris Nanterre University. I’m exploring the relationship between scientists and Antarctica. Natalie: Hi I’m Natalie Nickells, PhD student from the British Antarctic survey. I specialise in humpback and fin whale foraging ecology:basically, what kind of krill swarms do they like to eat? Nastasia: Hi I’m Nastasia Freyria postdoctoral researcher from McGill university in Montreal. My research focuses on the natural attenuation of Arctic microbial communities and the development of optimal bioremediation strategies for the remediation of potential oil spills on Arctic beaches. André: Hello I’m André Torres Reis, I’m a marine arctic biologist and I am currently working as a cetacean wildlife guide and science communicator. Natalie: We will start with an opening quote to introduce the theme of our episode about polar microplastics from Rachel Carson's Silent Spring Book written in 1962. Natalie: “The most alarming of all man's assaults upon the environment is the contamination of air, earth, rivers, and sea with dangerous and even lethal materials. This pollution is for the most part irrecoverable; the chain of evil it initiates not only in the world that must support life but in living tissues is for the most part irreversible. In this now universal contamination of the environment, chemicals are the “sinister” and little-recognized partners of radiation in changing the very nature of the world--the very nature of its life.” (Carson, 1962: 6) Let’s reflect a little on that quote… André: Well, when hearing this passage from over 60 years ago now, it’s just only seems too unreal, to me, that we continue to remain plagued with the very nature of what Rachel “brought to light” so eloquently in her book- although, now, this has slightly shifted from major concerns around unknown ‘chemicals’ and radiation, to an increased concern around plastic pollution….What does that make you think Nadia. Nadia: When we think about plastic, we might conjure up the emotive images of plastic straws impacting turtles survivability which flooded social media after they were featured in Blue Planet 2’s final episode in 2017. This seemed to kick off public awareness of ocean plastic pollution, and individuals began to move towards reducing single use plastic in their daily lives in order to protect marine life. As scientists, we all are aware that what's visible is only the tip of the iceberg, see what we did there!, and that the causes and effects of environmental pollution are complex, multifactorial and deeply damaging to humans and the very ecosystem which supports us . Emilie: In the first episode of Our Changing Oceans, we will discuss issues surrounding sources of pollution impacting polar oceans. Nastasia: Today, we're diving deep into how human activities have transformed our oceans, from ancient times to our modern crisis. We will be your guides through this journey of discovery and science facing our uncertain futures. In this first episode, we will briefly retrace how scientists and the general public first became aware of pollution facing our oceans and the extending reach into the most inhospitable places on earth… the polar regions. André: It was in 1962, when Rachel Carson first published Silent Spring. A book, a journey where she unveils the impacts and damages of chemical products on bird ...
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