Aquaculture Ecology (SUSTAINABLE OCEAN FOODS) with Ben Halpern

Oh hey, it's the waitress who forgot your margarita, Allie Ward, and you are here to learn about farming stuff in the ocean or your home or lake or whatever. Last week we got to the bottom of how kelp sticks to the seafloor and what seaweed is and how it's not plants, but you can eat it. And this week, as promised, we are diving into aquaculture, which is apparently Very heated topic. So I'm talking to a wonderful marine biologist I was lucky enough to meet and spend time with two years back.

I was on Catalina Island at USC's Wrigley Institute for Environment and Sustainability. There is a storymakers symposium they do where I was left on an island with a bunch of climate scientists. via Liz Neely and Ed Young to give this talk on Scicom to some people who are just trying to save planet Earth. It was a good time. They were all cool as hell.

And I've interviewed several for this show, including this one, who studied biology at Carleton College and then went on to get a PhD in ecology, evolution, and marine biology at UC Santa Barbara. They are the lead scientist for the Ocean Health Index project. They co-founded the conservation aquaculture research team. They're a professor at UC Santa Barbara's Brenn School of Environmental Science and Management and the director of the UCSB National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis.

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