Sylvia Earle has spent more than 6,000 hours underwater, including two weeks in a small structure fifty feet below the water's surface. So when she warns about the sad state of our oceans, people tend to take notice. Earle joins us to explain why the health of our seas is so precarious, and what can be done to restore them before it's too late.
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Oceanographer Sylvia Earle
Listen Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2009 at 1:32 p.m. in Books, Environment
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Sylvia Earle
Oceanographer; National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence; Author, "The World Is Blue: How Our Fate and the Ocean's Are One"
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Superb show! It would be great to learn how one trains to become an oceanographer, what scholarship opportunities are available to young people, and how individuals interested in making a career change might be able to move into this field. Certainly, with the oceans at risk and the underwater universe being the "final" frontier, we as a nation should be encouraging more people to get into this discipline. Any chance of a follow-up program that goes into detail about the various ways one might become an oceanographer?