Changing Ocean Asia

Auteur(s): Climate Impact Asia
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  • This podcast series accompanies the Changing Ocean Asia documentary series made in collaboration with Curiosity and Earth Observatory of Singapore. Changing Ocean Asia is a four-part series which explores key themes around the impacts of the changing ocean: Sinking Cities, Extreme Weather and Powerful Tsunamis, Urban Oceans and Super Corals, and Sea Level Rise and Engineering Solutions. Southeast Asia is a unique part of the world, featuring low-lying countries, pristine islands and vast coastal habitats. 600 million people across the region live in low elevation coastal zones, all vulnerable to sea level rise, flooding, storm surges and extreme weather events like tsunamis and typhoons. Scientists at The Earth Observatory of Singapore and engineers are working together to design and develop sustainable solutions to ensure the region’s prosperity this century. The ocean is our planet’s life support system. It regulates our climate, absorbing huge amounts of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, and provides us with vast stores of food. But the ocean is in trouble. Population growth, rapid developments in infrastructure, climate change, and events happening far away in polar regions are impacting oceans, affecting all aspects of life across Southeast Asia. Changing Ocean Asia explores four key themes around the impacts of the changing ocean, and looks at the challenges and solutions being explored by scientists including the Earth Observatory of Singapore, government and business. At least 4 billion people in the region rely on the Ocean for their livelihood. The ocean provides us with over 70% of our oxygen, is the fundamental element of the climate system, and drives economic and social development across Southeast Asia. As human activity has significantly increased, so have greenhouse gas emissions. The ocean has moderated the effects, absorbing more than 90% of excess heat and over 30% of excess carbon emissions, but their capacity to buffer our changing climate system is impacting the health of the ocean and the dynamic mechanisms which drive geohazards and rising sea levels in the region. This series looks at the effects of a changing climate system on geohazards and ocean dynamics in Asia, and the research work being undertaken by the Earth Observatory of Singapore to help identify adaptive solutions that will benefit future generations in the region. Changing Ocean Asia is written and directed by well-known international filmmaker Liz Courtney. She is best known for her 6-part series The Tipping Points of Climate Change, Earth’s Survival, Cool School Antarctica, and Youth for Plant. A resident of the Asia Pacific region and Artist in Residence at the Earth Observatory of Singapore, Liz is keen to explore key factors that will challenge the Southeast Asian region in the coming decade.
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  • Extreme Weather with Associate Professor Adam Switzer

    Extreme Weather with Associate Professor Adam Switzer
    Feb 1 2022

    Today, host Liz Courtney talks to Associate Professor Adam Switzer, a Principal Investigator at the Earth Observatory of Singapore, about extreme weather and powerful tsunamis in Southeast Asia – with a particular focus on a new weather phenomenon – meteotsunamis.
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    9 min
  • Sinking Cities with Associate Professor Emma Hill

    Sinking Cities with Associate Professor Emma Hill
    Jan 28 2022

    Today, host Liz Courtney talks to Associate Professor Emma Hill on the subject of Sinking Cities. Emma Hill is a leading scientist at the Earth Observatory of Singapore studying the impact of geohazards like tectonics and earthquakes combined with sea level rise that is causing cities to sink in the region.
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    11 min
  • Urban Oceans with Assistant Professor Kyle Morgan

    Urban Oceans with Assistant Professor Kyle Morgan
    Jan 25 2022

    Today, host Liz Courtney talks with Assistant Professor Kyle Morgan on the impacts the changing ocean is having on coral reefs, why coral reefs are so important to ocean health and the research work he is doing to look at the resilience urban corals off the coast of Singapore are showing in the face of climate change impacts on the ocean. What can we learn from these super corals to help more pristine coral reefs like the Great Barrier Reef in the future?
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    22 min

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