Solving-FCB Podcasts

In the Solving-FCB Podcast, Work/Learn student Duncan Murray talks to scientists around the world about their work with the Solving-FCB Partnership. And, in Deep Dive, our Core Publications are analysed and discussed by a pair of Generative AI co-hosts.

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Solving-FCB Podcast

The Solving-FCB Podcast, hosted by Duncan Murray, explores why it’s crucial to address the issues arising at the meeting point of food, climate, and biodiversity. This series will feature conversations with scientists from around the world about their ongoing research within the Solving FCB project, and will also touch upon the progress of different case studies within the partnership.

Solving-FCB Podcast: Episode 2

March 24, 2025

Costa Rica’s Gulf of Nicoya: Fisheries, Ecology, and Community, with Fresia Villalobos-Rojas and Dr. Christian Birkel


Episode 2 of the Solving-FCB Podcast explores the unfolding ecological and socioeconomic crisis in Costa Rica’s Gulf of Nicoya, where climate change, overfishing, and agricultural runoff are driving a dangerous decline in fish populations and threatening local livelihoods.

Solving-FCB Podcast: Episode 1

March 24, 2025

Tackling Sustainability at the Food, Climate, and Biodiversity Nexus, with Dr. William Cheung


The podcast’s first episode features an interview with the project’s co-director, who explains the project’s importance and its efforts to address these complex interactions, drawing on his personal experiences with changing marine environments.

Deep Dive

Deep Dive is an experimental AI-generated podcast series that brings our core publications to a wider audience in an engaging and accessible way. Each 10-15 minute episode features a dynamic two-host discussion, breaking down key concepts from a selected paper in a conversational format. While episodes are reviewed to ensure alignment with the paper’s findings and accuracy, minor inaccuracies in language or scientific terminology may occasionally occur due to the nature of generative AI.

Deep Dive: Aquaculture

A traits-based approach to assess aquaculture’s contributions to food, climate change, and biodiversity goals.

Deep Dive: Climate Change & Impacting the Beaufort Sea Shelf

Historical climate drivers and species’ ecological niche in the Beaufort Sea food web.

Deep Dive: UN High Seas Treaty & Climate Action

The new UN high seas marine biodiversity Agreement may also facilitate climate action: a cautiously optimistic view

Deep Dive: Climate Change & Heart Health in Indigenous Communities

Potential impacts of reduced seafood consumption on myocardial infarction among coastal First Nations in British Columbia, Canada.

Deep Dive: Ocean Forecasting – FishMIP 2.0

Detecting, attributing, and projecting global marine ecosystem and fisheries change: FishMIP 2.0.

Deep Dive: How Climate Change is Impacting Fish

Comparative analysis of climate-induced changes in distribution of representative fish species in the Yellow Sea

Deep Dive: Seaweed Farming

Global estimates of suitable areas for marine algae farming.

Deep Dive: The Future of Seafood

The WTO must complete an ambitious fisheries subsidies agreement.