The Deep-Sea Dilemma: Balancing Climate Solutions and Ecosystem Health

April 16, 2023

Unraveling deep-sea impacts, climate change solutions.

In this episode of the American Shoreline Podcast, co-hosts Peter Ravella and Tyler Buckingham are joined by Dr. Lisa Levin, a distinguished professor at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. The conversation revolves around Dr. Levin's recent paper, "Deep-sea impacts of climate interventions: Ocean manipulation to mitigate climate change may harm deep-sea ecosystems". They discuss the potential implications of ocean-based climate interventions on deep-sea ecosystems and the urgent need for an integrated research framework to include these impacts in mitigation planning. Explore the challenges of governance and the importance of considering deep-sea ecosystems in our quest for climate change solutions.

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Peter Ravella & Tyler Buckingham

Peter and Tyler joined forces in 2015 and from the first meeting began discussing a project that would become Coastal News Today and the American Shoreline Podcast Network. At the time, Peter and Tyler were coastal consultants for Pete’s firm, PAR Consulting, LLC. In that role, they worked with coastal communities in Texas, Florida, and North Carolina, engaged in grant writing, coastal project development, shoreline erosion and land use planning, permitting, and financial planning for communities undertaking big beach restoration projects. Between and among their consulting tasks, they kept talking and kept building the idea of CNT & ASPN. In almost every arena they worked, public engagement played a central role. They spent thousands of hours talking with coastal stakeholders, like business owners, hotel operators, condo managers, watermen, property owners, enviros, surfers, and fishermen. They dived deep into the value, meaning, and responsibility for the American shoreline, segment-by-segment. Common threads emerged, themes were revealed, differences uncovered. There was a big conversation going on along the American shoreline! But, no place to have it. That's where CNT and ASPN were born.