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Into the Blue, produced by the National Oceanography Centre in the UK, aims to dive deep into subjects relating to our ocean and it's seas by speaking to experts from the world of oceanography all with the goal of helping the ocean and life within it flourish.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · June 2026
Into the Blue ties ocean science to field experience, climate systems and measurement problems in a way that makes the stakes practical.
NOC Into the Blue Podcast is an ocean science show built around interviews, field experience and the systems that shape life at sea. The sampled episodes move between marine carbon dioxide removal, AMOC decline, sea surface temperature records, round-the-world travel,…
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Coral, ocean acidification, and diving stories shape a grounded conversation about the ocean.
Coral and ocean acidification stay at the center of this episode, with Dr Sarah Fowle's diving stories giving the discussion its shape. The conversation works best when it moves from underwater memories into the science, because the ideas land through lived experience rather…
A patient geology story that turns deep-sea clues into a lost tropical island.
This episode follows a marine geologist and colleagues as they piece together red clays, lava flows, tropical weathering, kaolinite, and possible fossil roots to argue that a tropical island once rose where the Rio Grande rise now sits, about a thousand meters below sea level.
A practical look at the logistics that let ocean science leave port.
Ocean science is framed less as a story of breakthrough than as the careful planning that makes the work possible. Dr Zoe Jacobs and Dr Ella Darlington walk through expedition logistics as a set of linked decisions: matching vessels and kit to the science, keeping data flow…
A grounded look at ocean carbon, deep-sea life, and the climate questions that connect them.
Marine life is treated as part of the climate picture, not a side note. Dr Adrian Martin traces how carbon moves through the ocean and why fish, migration, and depth quickly become climate questions. The science comes through as steady rather than flashy, which suits the subject.
El Nino is framed as a coupled climate process with Pacific-centered roots and wider weather effects.
The episode treats El Nino as a coupled ocean-atmosphere system and keeps the science easy to follow. It moves from the warm pool in the western Pacific to its spread toward Peru, then shows how that shift can alter rainfall far beyond the Pacific through tele-connections.
A grounded look at whether marine carbon removal can work, and what it would take to do it responsibly.
Marine carbon dioxide removal is framed as a practical ocean policy problem rather than a clean technology story. It starts with the ocean's role as a major carbon reservoir, then works through the central tradeoffs: how much CO2 different approaches could remove, what they…
A sailing record question turns into a grounded look at warming oceans, shifting ice, and a longer route.
Dee Kafari's question gives the episode a clean, practical frame: if the ocean and ice keep changing, can the Jules Verne record still fall next year?
A steady conversation about why ocean risk is easier to miss than to measure.
Philippe Graval makes a clear case for why ocean risk is so easy to miss. On land, damage is usually plain to see; in the sea, pollution, climate change, and tipping points can stay hidden until the effects are already moving.
Documentary storytelling on ecology and Indigenous land stewardship, hosted by Mendel and Adam.
BBC World Service reporters explain climate mechanisms and policy from the Amazon to Delhi to the Alps.
Books, systems, and the questions that unlock them.
Soil life, climate repair, practical regeneration.
Coastal science, patiently and beautifully reported.
Marine geologist Professor Brownlee Merton recounts how a 2018 expedition to study mineral deposits on the Rio Grande Rise accidentally discovered evidence of a lost tropical island the size of Iceland, now sitting 1000 meters beneath the South Atlantic.
Dee Kafari opens by asking whether a new Jules Verne round-the-world record attempt can really be done next year.
Dr Socrates Lukaides discusses the critical role of monitoring carbon in oceans to combat climate change, highlighting projects like George for sensor development and Chalke for studying cocolithophores.
In this Christmas special, host Dr Zoe Jacobs interviews Dr Chelsea Baker about marine snow and its importance.
Will Dixon speaks with Phil Bishop and Liz James about how the Boer Blue Ocean Research Alliance came together and what it is doing.
Dr Zoe Jacobs speaks with Dr Ella Darlington about what it takes to plan a scientific expedition.
Dr Zoe Jacobs talks with Dr Sarah Fowle about ocean acidification and what corals can tell us about our ocean.
The episode opens with the oceans as the largest carbon reservoir at the surface and follows a marine geochemist at the National Oceanography Centre from geology into questions about how ocean processes may connect to climate change.
Coastal flooding is the subject, and the conversation keeps circling back to the real world.
Zoe Jacobs opens with a playful ocean question and welcomes Dr Joelle Hershey to the show.
Dr Zoe Jacobs speaks with Dr Elizabeth Keds about an apparent cold feature in early 20th century sea surface temperature data.
Will sits down with underwater photographer and filmmaker Lewis Jeffries.
This episode explores the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) through discussions with oceanographers Rita Markina and Tillis Petit.
Dr Katya Popova introduces the emerging field of socio-oceanography, which integrates natural and social sciences to tackle ocean-related challenges.
Host Will interviews Hannah Muir, a PhD researcher at the National Oceanography Centre, about her upcoming 1,450km bikepacking journey along the Rhine River from the Swiss Alps to the North Sea.
Will Pearson, co-founder of Ocean Bottle, discusses how his childhood experiences and witnessing plastic waste as a deckhand led him to create a company that funds plastic collection in developing countries.
Marine life sits at the center of this conversation.
James Ketchell is chasing a rare kind of circumnavigation.
Dr Zoe Jacobs opens the AMOC mini-series by talking with Olly Tooth about what he studies and why it matters.
The host puts Dr Zoe Jacobs in the guest seat to talk about marine heatwaves in UK waters.
This episode features an interview with Professor Penny Holliday, NOC's Chief Scientist, discussing 20 years of research using the RAPID array to monitor the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC).
Dr Zoe Jacobs interviews climate scientist Dr Hemant Katri about the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), exploring whether it's weakening, what climate impacts would result, and addressing common misconceptions.
The episode opens with a simple problem: ocean damage is harder to see than damage on land.
Professor Merrick Schroppos discusses a study on the unusual Madagascar phytoplankton bloom, which occurred earlier and was three times larger than normal due to iron-rich particles from a Southern African drought.