2025. Holy Mola was that a long year. I made a concerted effort to appear on more podcasts last year across more topics than I usually do. Excepting the weekly ocean science podcast I’m a part of, I hit a little more than 1 podcast a month throughout the year.
If you need an expert to talk about deep-sea mining, low-cost ocean sensing, deep-sea ecology and exploration, or teaching with Dungeons & Dragons, drop me a line on Bluesky and let’s chat.
Deep-sea Mining
Not surprising, but the vast majority of podcast interviews I did this year were about deep-sea mining. We kicked off 2025 with a look back on 2024 in deep-sea mining (and enjoy How to Protect The Ocean’s pivot to video, in which I was unaware and spent the entire episode sideways to the camera).
I talked about deep-sea mining for Public Health on Call:
Chatted with Beth Pike and Angelo Villagomez for the Marine Conservation Institute:
Hopped back over to How to Protect the Ocean to talk about the US push to mine the CCZ:
Covered the strange and covert history of the industry for Outside/In:
Joined my friends on Marine Conservation Happy Hour to have a pint and a gripe:
Went back to How to Protect the Ocean to talk about my big report on knowledge gaps about the impact of deep-sea mining on marine species:
And closed the year on Ocean Science Radio talking about what we don’t know about deep-sea mining.
The Documentary
We also premiered Clare’s polymetallic nodule documentary, featuring me, at the International Seabed Authority this summer.
Dungeons & Dragons
I took a break from the heavy stuff to talk with educators and adventurers about using Dungeons & Dragons to teach environmental science. And, of course, to promote my adventure campaign The Last Hunt for the Jabberwock.
Including another trip to How to Protect the Ocean:
And Marine Conservation Happy Hour:
And, of course, there’s always our long running Dungeons & Dragons and Ocean Science Podcast, Dugongs an Sea Dragons, now entering it’s eighth year.
Wild Cards
I touched on a few other topics throughout the year, including a frank and not so happy discussion about the current state of marine science careers:
And my own project to deploy a DIY tide gauge in our town to better assess the impacts of sea level rise and tidal flooding.
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