Podcasts
23 August 2011
In this Planet Earth podcast Sue Nelson will ask why
scientists are working with the National Trust to restore the chalk
grasslands around Stonehenge, how scientists are using satellites
to study microscopic plants and the etiquette of dining and
bullying in baboons.
Dr Peter Miller, a PML Remote Sensing
Scientist, explains why measuring plankton blooms from
space tells scientists much more about how healthy the oceans are
than they could find out from close up in a boat.
October 2010
Richard Warwick, PML Fellow, talks to Jaclyn
Pearson from the Isles of Scilly Wildlife Trust about an all taxon
biodiversity inventory for the marine life of the Isles of
Scilly.
31 August 2010
In this Planet Earth podcast, Sue Nelson goes to the Eden
Project in Cornwall, southwest England and to the South Downs in
southeast England to find out what butterfly research is telling us
about climate change. As you might expect, there's some bad news to
report, but surprisingly there's also hopeful news – at least for
the silver spotted skipper.
Meanwhile Richard Hollingham goes to PML to
hear how long-term monitoring buoys in the English Channel have
helped reveal, among other things, that the water has gradually
been getting warmer.
16 August 2010
Everyone loves a rockpool, and Sue Nelson nearly takes a dive
into one in this week's podcast while finding out about the riches
they contain. She visits the Anglesey coast of north Wales to learn
what these mini marine laboratories can tell us about the value of
biodiversity.
The effects of climate change range from rising temperatures and
higher sea levels to extreme weather and mass extinctions. Richard
Hollingham reports from PML where scientists are
investigating another, hidden process – increasing ocean
acidification. And finally we learn how scientists are using pan
scourers to find out how communities of marine creatures might
respond to chemical changes in our oceans.
25 May 2010
It seems that hardly a week goes by without a major earthquake
striking somewhere in the world, which may be why many people have
been asking scientists at the British Geological Survey
(BSG) if earthquakes are getting more frequent. Science writer
and broadcaster Richard Hollingham talks to expert seismologist
Brian Baptie from BGS and we also hear from PML
scientists, on a boat off the coast of Cornwall (UK),
sampling seawater and sediment from the seafloor to try to
understand how marine ecosystems change from one month to the next,
coming across many weird and wonderful creatures in the
process.
11 December 2009
As the world talks global warming, scientists go to one of
the chilliest places in Europe to find out what evidence there is
for manmade climate change. Science writer and broadcaster Richard
Hollingham, talks to the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) and
PML's Science Communicator, Kelvin Boot.
30 November 2009
With climate change and the talks in Copenhagen dominating the
news right now, we find out how satellites have revolutionised our
understanding of climate change. Science writer and broadcaster,
Richard Hollingham, talks to ocean acidification experts Dr
Ian Joint and Dr Jack Gilbert at PML to find out how the
acidity of the oceans has changed in the last three decades and
what this means for ocean life.
21 May 2009
Possibly one of the world's best known geneticists, Dr J. Craig
Venter with his Sorcerer II yacht crew
visited Plymouth and PML during his
expedition to build a complete genetic map of the ocean. Science
writer and broadcaster Richard Hollingham talks to Venter
and PML ecologist Jack Gilbert.
05 January 2009
Science writer and broadcaster Richard Hollingham
meets with Ian Joint and Jack Gilbert
from PML to find out more about ocean acidification
and how using new genetic techniques are helping scientists
uncover adaptation in marine organisms.
21 November 2009
Science writer and broadcaster Richard Hollingham talks
to Steve Archer and Mark Breckels from
PML about the role of marine algae in atmospheric
cooling.
21 October 2009
Carole Llewellyn and Steve Skill from PML
tell science writer and broadcaster Richard Hollingham about their
hopes that algae can help solve a number of environmental
problems.