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Mikki McComb-Kobza
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eTown
eTown Time Capsule - The Ballroom Thieves - Ron Sexsmith - Dr. Mikki McComb Kobza
Martin Earley and Calin Peters are The Ballroom Thieves and, this week, they travel to eTown to share the bill with Canadian songsmith, Ron Sexsmith. Also on the show, Nick discusses sharks and the environmental impact of pollution on our waters with Dr. Mikki McComb-Kobza, Chief Scientist and Executive Director of the Ocean First Institute. That's all this week on eTown! Visit our Youtube Channel to see artist interviews, live recordings, studio sessions, and more!
2024-05-01
58 min
Rising Tide: The Ocean Podcast
Rising Tide #93 – Mikki's Shark World
On this episode of Rising Tide we talk with Mikki McComb-Kobza of the Ocean First Institute. A long time diver and conservation biologist Mikki has studied sharks all around the world. She’ll talk about her discovery on how Hammerhead sharks see, how sharks are the wolves of the sea, why that’s a good thing and how she uses DNA sampling and measures white sharks using underwater lasers. And of course how ‘Jaws’ changed her life. Join us.Rising Tide, the Ocean Podcast is co-hosted by Blue Frontier's David Helvarg and the Inland Ocean Coalit...
2023-10-09
27 min
ELEVATE Podcast
#58. Fear & Fascination | Mikki McComb-Kobza
Imagine hopping on a bike only to find the bell missing. Ok, so you can’t ring when you pass your friends, but, you can still wave. But what if the baskets missing too? Where do you put your book, your baguette, your raincoat? Not ideal. But what if there are no peddles, or handlebars, or seat? At some point, the machine we call a bicycle is no longer a bicycle. It’s more like a static, lifeless artifact from the past. The same is true for the environment. When you begin to remove seemingly insignificant elements, eventually the enti...
2023-04-04
1h 00
Big Deep - An Ocean Podcast
Survival of the Strangest: Mikki McComb-Kobza On Her Passion For The Undersea World of Hammerheads
In this episode, I speak with Dr. Mikki McComb-Kobza, Executive Director of the Ocean First Institute, an organization dedicated to preserving the world's oceans, and a woman with a deep passion for sharks and particularly hammerheads. When I spoke with Mikki , I found her to be not only a dedicated shark researcher but also an entertaining interview. And she talked openly about how her life has been shaped by a few seminal moments, from seeing a movie with her brother as a child to a chance encounter with the ocean icon Dr. Sylvia Earle, and how it...
2021-01-12
19 min
Ask a Scientist
Dr. Mikki McComb-Kobza - Sharks
Have you ever wanted to know more about sharks? In this episode, Dr. Mikki McComb-Kobza, Executive Director of Ocean First Institute, talks to us about sharks! She tells us all about the world's oldest sharks, the biggest sharks, the smallest sharks, and what it's like to see a shark in person! We talk about why sharks are scared of orcas and how it is challenging to keep great white sharks in captivity. So grab your scuba gear and get ready to dive into the world of sharks!! For a transcript of this episode and more...
2020-07-21
39 min
KGNU - How On Earth
The Ocean Is Us #1 : Teens4Oceans – Marine Science Education
high school students measuring a juvenile green sea turtle off of Virgin Gorda in the British Virgin IslandsPhoto courtesy of Mikki McComb-Kobza Teens4Oceans (starts at 9:15): Today, we’re kicking off a series of interviews on the show called The Ocean Is Us. We’ll explore how all of us living in land-locked Colorado are connected to the ocean — whether it’s through our watershed that flows into the Gulf of Mexico, or the fish we buy at the grocery store, or the carbon dioxide we emit that acidifies the oceans. Teens4Oceans is a nonprofit...
2014-06-26
23 min