Season 1

Nicole Kennedy
Epidsode 1

Nicole grew up on the Bay of Fundy working for her family's whale watching tours. The choice to pursue marine science was an easy one for her! 
Listen to Nicole's episode: HERE
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Liv Williamson
Episode 2

Liv is a PhD Student at UMiami specialising in coral reefs! Liv talks all about how she got into coral sciences and what you can do to help!
Listen to Liv's episode: HERE

Lauren Rowsey
EPISODE 3

Lauren is a PhD Student at University of New Brunswick studying thermal regulation in fish! Lauren talks in this podcast all about how she got into this ,what makes her a water woman and how she spends her time on the water!
Listen to Lauren's episode: HERE

Kaitlin Casey
EPISODE 4

Jill's best ocean friend talks today about their shared love of marine biology, and Kaitlins recently started masters. This episode offers a unique perspective on women in ocean science from two students! 
Check out Kaitlin's episode: HERE

Holly Richmond
EPISODE 5

Holly Richmond, a marine biologist and ocean lover, share  how her passion for the sea helped to develop a documentary that brings the dark side of shark nets to light. Holly discusses the wonders of the ocean, as well as the threat to the animals that lies just off the shore.. 
Check out Hollys Episode: HERE
Watch the Shark Net Film: HERE

Nan Hauser
EPISODE 6

Nan Hauser is known as the whale lady, she spends her time researching humpback whales in the Cook Islands! In this episode Nan talks about how she transitioned from nursing to whale studies, raising her kids on the ocean, the research done at the Centre for Cetaceans Research and Conservation that Nan founded, and most importantly, Nan's insane dive with a Humpback whale who rescued her from a Tiger Shark!! 
Check out Nan's Episode: HERE

Melissa Marquez 
EPISODE 7

Talking about all things Sharks and Crocs, and Latina representation is Melissa Marquez, who has found herself traveling globally to research Chondrichthyes! Melissa has spoken publicly not only about the research she does, but why she feels its important to have representation in STEM of diverse women,
Check out Melissa's episode: HERE
Check out her website: HERE

Kim Davies
EPISODE 8

​Kim is a oceanographer, and in her episode she explains what an oceanographer does, and how she protects the North Atlantic Right Whale but studying the changes in the ocean! 
Check out Kim's Episode: HERE

Kelsey Korner
EPISODE 9

Kelsey studies paleooceanography? That's a big word to say that she uses sediment samples from the ocean to study and better understand how  the climate is changing.
Listen to Kelsey's Episode: HERE 

JEssica Irwin
EPISODE 10

Did you know you can study Archeology UNDERWATER? That is exactly what Jessica does! She knew that studying history was something she always wanted to do and found a way to partner her love of history with her love of the underwater world! 
Listen to Jessica's Episode: HERE

HAnnah Wallace
EPISODE 11

Taking a quick detour from the world of water to chat with virology PhD student Hannah about what is going on in the world right now - COVID19. Hannah explains the virus in an easily digestible way and lays out a plan of what we can and NEED to do in order to get back to a healthy normal.
Listen to Hannah's Episode: HERE 

​Francesca Trotman
EPISODE 12

Francesca is the founder of LOVE THE OCEANS and how she has used her live long passion for the ocean to create this foundation, and how this foundation is working to spread information about the ocean and creating a new MPA
​Listen to Francesca's Episode: HERE
Check out love the oceans: HERE

MAds St. Clair Baker
EPISODE 13

Mads is the creator of the viral Facebook group Women in Ocean Science. Mads love using her passion for the marine sciences to help women all over the world collaborate and network using this amazing Facebook group
​Listen to Mads Episode: HERE
More about WOS: HERE

Rebecca Daniel
EPISODE 14

Rebecca is one of the co-founders of the global organisation The Marine Diaries, which promotes outreach and introductions to the ocean via different media platforms!
​Listen to Rebecca's Episode: HERE
​Learn more about The Marine Diaries: HERE

Vanessa Zobell
EPISODE 15

Vanessa is a second year PhD student studying whales, specifically their sounds! Vanessa channels her love for whales into her studies and explains how listening to these whales can help us better understand the impact that shipping noise can have on these animals!
​Listen to Vanessa's Episode: HERE

​Heidi Mcilvenny
EPISODE 16

Heidi is a shark conservationist studying sharks in the deep seas off Northern Ireland!  Along  with  studying sharks, Heidi works with Sea Deep NI to advocate for and educate locals about the Northern Ireland shark population! 
​Listen to Heidi's episode: HERE
Learn More about Sea Deep NI:  HERE

Sarah McCulloch
EPISODE 17

If there is one thing in life Sarah loves, its the ocean. More specifically, whales. Sarah uses this love she has while working with humpbacks & high-rises, a not for profit group based in Queensland Australia who's studies focus on the behaviour, and ecology of the humpback whale populations around the area! 
Listen to Sarah's episode: HERE
More about Humpbacks & High-rises: HERE

Caitlin Mccall
EPISODE 18

Caitlin has always felt a connection to the water and decided in her early 20s to use her background in marketing and communications to spread her passion. Since this decision she has chased her ocean loving dreams and obtained her SCUBA diving instructor certificate, and has launched the eco-conscious diver podcast and platform!! 
​Listen to Caitlins episode: HERE
Checkout more about Eco-Conscious diver: HERE

Madyson Miller & Michael Farnham
EPISODE 19

Madyson & Michaela are what we consider mothers to women in ocean science ambassadors. They work with the Women in Ocean Science program (hello Mads!!) coordinating and helping lead ambassadors! Coming from different backgrounds and places, Madyson & Michaela bonded over their shared love of the ocean! 
​Listen to their episode: HERE

​Jamie Nakatani
EPISODE 20

Jamie is what you would call a wildlife warrior and an eco-conscious person! She first learned about micro plastics and the problems they cause in classes, and decided to be more aware of what she was using! She also decided she wanted to help and has taken to creating small little crochet animals out of plastic bags in an effort to reuse them! 
Listen to Jamie's episode: HERE
Buy one of Jamie's Animals: HERE

MElissa Staines
EPISODE 21

Melissa is a PhD student studying turtles, and their migration and population dynamics, she loves sharing her love and knowledge about turtles including explaining how temperature can affect the gender of a turtle, and how that is being manipulated to ensure population safety!! 
​Check out more from Melissa: HERE

Leoni Dickerhoff
EPISODE 22

Leoni is completely obsessed with conservation and doing her part. She grew up not really passionate about the ocean, but after reading more about it, found her love. Throughout quarantine her passion project, the sirene project has grown immensely and highlights a new conservationist woman each week!
Check out her episode: HERE
Read about the Sirene Project: HERE

Dr. Claire Simeone
​EPISODE 23

Dr. Claire Simeone is a large mammal vet, her goal is to teach all about how we can learn more about our mental health from marine mammals. She also talks about the exciting times she had working as a vet, and all about her new company she plans to start!
Listen to Claire's Episode: HERE
​Learn More about Claire: HERE

Tamara Adame
​EPISODE 24

Born and raised in a fishing village on the coast of Quintana Roo, Mexico, Tamara grew up in the water and experienced nature since a very young age!
Tamara started teaching diving in 2014, and became aware that most divers, including guides and instructors, didn't know much about the ocean and its inhabitants and there was a huge lack in connecting people to the environment they visit when diving and also began working on a documentary showing plastic pollution problem.
Listen to Tamara's Episode: HERE
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Carlee JAckson
​EPISODE 25

Carlee is a grad student who is studying the effect of ecotourism in sharks, and has also spent many summers working with Gumbo Limbo as a sea turtle specialist! Not only is Carlee invested in her studies, but she also aims to create more opportunities for women of colour within shark science and has recently launched Miss Elasmo with some partners to do so! 
Listen to Carlee's Episode: HERE
Learn about Miss Elasmo: HERE

Inka Cresswell
​EPISODE 26

Inka has been a water women for as long as she can remember. What started as a way to practice her buoyancy while diving soon turned into a lifelong passion for Inka to pursue! Since discovering her love for oceanographic photography and videography, Inka has gone on to work with large streaming services to show the beauty of the world below the waves!
Listen to Inka's Episode: HERE
​Learn more about Inka & Watch her films: HERE

Rose Santana
​EPISODE 27

Rose spends her time in the lab trying to better understand what impacts copper is having on the ecosystems by using fish and studying how they react to different dosages of it! 
Check out Rose on Water Women: HERE
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Emily Higgins
​EPISODE 28

Emily is part of the Reef Life foundation, who is working to create moderns intelligent reefs to help stimulate the growth of coral by using different material, and in some cases make it interactive!! How Cool! 
Listen to Emily's Episode: HERE
Check out more from Emily: HERE
Learn more about reef life at their website: HERE

Kelly Morgan
​EPISODE 29

Now part of the water women team, Kelly started out as the intern for water women and loves sharing her passion through the water while sharing others stories! 
Listen to Kelly's Episode: HERE
​Check out Kelly's photos: HERE

Bianca Uyen
EPISODE 30

Bianca has spent lots of time in and on the water and found her passion in being a scientific communicator and loved sharing the background of science to people and helping them understand what was happening in the water and decided to pursue a master in wildlife filmography so she could share science and her passion.
Her first major film created focuses on the effects that the major feature film BLACKFISH had in regards to the outlook humans have on cetaceans in captivity.
Listen to her episode: HERE

Molly gray
EPISODE 31

Molly fell in love with dolphins at a very young age, so when she found out about the horrors of dolphins in captivity, and the behind the scenes of how they get there she decided to dedicate her life to help show the truth behind it. Now working with the Rick O'barry dolphin project Molly wants to help make people aware of what these dolphins go through and the brutal capturing of them that occurs in Taiji, Japan. 
Listen to Molly's Episode: HERE
Learn more about the Dolphin Project: HERE

Dr. Kelly Bushnell
EPISODE 32

Dr. Kelly Bushnell is a teacher and school of ocean literature, history and culture! She spends her time trying to educate student and people as to why the ocean plays such an integral role in our lives by focusing on past works of historic literature and relating it to the ocean. She is also an avid water woman and spend PLENTY of time in around an advocating for the oceans & creatures in them! 
Listen to Dr. Kelpy's Episode: HERE

Chloe Darwinn
EPISODE 33

Chloe works with the Maldives Whale Shark Research project helping to carry out whale shark surveys with volunteers, process the data and carrying out public engagement activities with our local island community! Chloe and the MWSRP are studying a very unique resident population of whale sharks in the Maldives!
Listen to Chloe's episode: HERE
Check out the MWSRP: HERE

Karli Rice Chudeau
EPISODE 34

Karli is a PhD student at UCDavis where she is working at the nexus of animal welfare and conservation with non-profit organizations and facilities to improve behavioural development and improve survival of animals that are in need of protection and support! By studying these behaviours, Karli's aim with this is  to provide these seals with enrichment rehabilitation that makes an easier transition from rehab back into their natural environment!
Listen to Karli's episode: HERE

Joëlle De Wert
EPISODE 35

Joëlle is a Belgian marine marine biologist pursuing a PhD in Marine biology at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium. She started her career as a marine mammal biologist in 2010 and started her own research project with the non-profit organization Association ELI-S (@Eli.scientific) she founded in 2016. The Cetacean conservation project of Nicaragua is a community-based conservation project based on a scientific program that gathers baseline data on whales and dolphins occurring along the pacific coast of Nicaragua (Central America).
Listen to her episode: HERE

Hannah Rudd
EPISODE 36

Hannah's love for the ocean lead her to pursue scientific communication as her passion, sharing information about sharks of course! 
In this episode Jill and Hannah talk about sharks and why their conservation is important and how you can protect them!
​Listen to her episode: HERE 

Rachel Crane
EPISODE 37

Rachel is a Marine Ecologist, PADI Master Scuba Instructor, and USCG 100-ton licensed Captain living  in the Florida Keys.  She works as an independent contractor in a variety of roles, she is a captain for the Coral Restoration Foundation and travels the world and work as a naturalist/undersea specialist/expedition diver aboard Lindblad Expedition and National Geographic vessels (when there isn’t a global pandemic), and is the the head of the training department for Diveheart, a scuba diving training agency that focuses on getting children, adults, and veterans with disabilities scuba diving.
​Check out more: HERE

Hanna Partoft
EPISODE 38

Hanna found her passion for the marine environment back in 2012 when she was working as a deckhand on board the tall ship Soren Larsen for its 7-month voyage of the South Pacific Ocean. Hanna's time sailing the South Pacific led her to start a degree in Animal Biology at Stirling University in Scotland. Since this Hanna has started a degree in qualitative analysis and statistics. 
Hanna currently runs the account Sustainable Biologist on Instagram where she shares  knowledge of conservation and the marine environment in hopes to raise awareness of issues related to both marine and terrestrial animals
Listen to her episode: HERE

Mimi Ausland
EPISODE 39

Mimi Ausland is the co-founder of free th oceans, a click to donate site that uses fun trivia questions to help remove plastic from our oceans! In this episode you can hear all about how mimi and the team came up with this idea, and how they implement and actually are removing this plastic and how you can help!!
Listen to her Episode: HERE

Skylar Bayer
EPISODE 40

A Maine Native, Skylar is a marine ecologist who studies population dynamics, & marine conservation, with a specific background in bivalves, in this episode we talk all about Skylars phd, how she measuring reproduction of sea scallops, and her upcoming book with colleague Gabi, Uncharted which details the struggles of different people with different disabilities and their experience in the STEM field.
Her episode can be found: HERE

Amanda vincent
EPISODE 41

Dr. Amanda Vincent was the first person to study seahorses underwater, the first to document the extensive trade in these fishes and the first to initiate a seahorse conservation project. Her team with project seahorse and their research and advocacy work for marine conservation have earned Dr. Vincent multiple awards! Jill and Amanda use this episode to learn more about seahorses, the threats they are facing, and what you can do to help!!
Check out project seahorse: Here
​Listen to her episode: HERE 

Jillian Morris
EPISODE 42

Jillian Morris-Brake was born and raised in Maine, so love for the ocean started at an early age and has continued to play a huge part role in her adult life. She is a co-founder of Sharks4kids, a shark education program for children (and people of all ages) that provides free online educational materials, person visits, full educational tours, snorkeling trips and shark tagging expeditions. Connecting with over 60,000 students in 44 countries and 48 US States through in person visits, Skype Lessons and Google Hangouts Sharks4kids has made a huge impact in introducing sharks to kids in a fun and safe way!. They are now partnering with research groups, conservation organizations and aquariums around the world to create new materials and provide even more opportunities for students!
Learning more about sharks4kids: HERE
Listen to Jillians Episode: HERE

Alisha Postma
EPISODE 43

Alisha is a Canadian scuba diver and underwater photographer, along with her husband she is also a co-owner of dive buddies for life! DB4L is a SCUBA based website that aims to educate, inspire, and foster ocean literacy in he diving world for people of all ages! 
In this episode, Jill & Alisha talk about some of the coolest projects dive buddies has going on, including a 13 part Canadian splash where Alisha and her husband dive in EVERY SINGLE Canadian province and territory and documenting it to share the beauty of Canadian diving! 
Check more out from dive buddies: HERE 
Listen to Alisha's episode: HERE

Trashy Girls Collective
EPISODE 44

What started as three friends cleaning up the beaches when they went diving has since turned into a movement of ocean conservation! These three AMAZING ladies chat today about their love for the ocean, how they found each other, and how trashy girls began!! 
Learn via these infectious laughs and fun facts what the biggest threat to our oceans are and how you can help!! 
Catch up with the episode: HERE

Lucy McMahon
EPISODE 45

Did you know that blue carbon was a thing? We didn't either until Lucy came to school us on what it is and HOW important it is!! Listen in as Lucy tells us all about how she is studying blue carbon in relation to salt marshes and how that relates back to us as people!! Lucy Loves education, and sharing her passion for the ocean and its well being, join her and Jill as they dive into everything they love about the ocean!
Learn more about blue carbon and Lucy on her instagram: @ocean_luce 
Check out her episode: HERE

Imani Black
EPISODE 46

Imani Black farms oysters... yes you read that right. She is an oyster farmer, and on todays episode she fills us in on all the behind the scenes of oyster farming to show you how those oysters end up on your table! Imani and Jill also dive into being a minority in aquaculture and in STEM fields in general, and how Imani is working to change the narrative behind that with her new group, minorities in aquaculture!
Check out her episode: HERE
Learn more about MIA: HERE

Lauren bell
EPISODE 47

Lauren is a PHD student studying remotely in Alaska, her work including monitoring growth of seaweeds and looking at just how they are being impacted by climate change and how kelp forests at high altitude can almost tell us the future……
​Check out her episode: HERE

Imari Walker
EPISODE 48

We're talking Dirty, as in plastic pollution of course! PhD Student Imari Walker is here to explain to us just how insanely common it is to find plastic in everyday objects you probably didn't think of! She also helps us break down whats actually in these plastics, why each thing is an issue, and exactly how it's affecting us as humans! 
Check out Imari On Youtube: HERE
Listen to her episode: HERE

Katie Watson
EPISODE 49

Katie is a jack of all trades when it comes to the water, growing up on an island she knew she wanted to study the water from a young age! And in todays episode she and Jill talk about the different projects she's done and helped with, how she manages to dive even though she hated it at first and gets sea sick.... 
​Listen to her episode: HERE

Cassidy D'loia
EPISODE 50

Jill catches up with one of her old professors, Dr. Cassidy D'Aloia , who studies dispersal and how we can learn more about dispersal using genetics of different species! Cassidy and Jill discuss different topics and methods of dispersal, Cassidys journey as a water women, and how behind they are on the social media! 
Check out her episode: HERE

Alice cimino
EPISODE 51

With Alice, we discuss everything from sustainability and how that relates to our food choices, to captivity of animals! 
Jill and Alice share their passions for the ocean and their different journeys to get where they are! 
​Listen HERE

Jill Corey
Episode 52

Jill wraps up Season 1 by reflecting on the past year and creation of Water Women Podcast.