Videos - Research Videos
In addition to our signature Synthetic Sea series, we have produced several other videos pertaining to our research.
Plastic Debris, Rivers to Sea
DVD, NTSC, $5.00
This recently-released DVD describes the land-based sources of plastic debris and trash in the marine environment. This informative presentation describes the results of recent research, public and private responses in California, and new actions that provide hope that marine debris can be stopped.
Research Clips
DVD, NTSC, 26 minutes, $20.00
Often we are asked if we have shorter versions of our programs on marine research. Not everyone has the luxury of time. AMRF has condensed four programs that depict our research, and collected into a single DVD. Contains four segments of 7 minutes or less.
The segments are:
- Plastic Debris, Rivers to Sea
80% of marine debris originates on land, therefore the importance of understanding watersheds cannot be understated. The program brings industry into the equation, as well as public officials charged with keeping the environment and American waterways clean. - Giant Sea Bass
Anecdotal evidence has suggested that California’s Giant Sea Bass have recovered from near extinction. Protected by the CA legislature since 1978, divers are seeing more of these behemoths around California’s Channel Islands. However, Dr Michael Domieir of the Pfleger Institute of Environmental Research, in Oceanside CA helps us understand how “bioactive” feeding preferences may be restricting their overall reproduction success in Southern California waters. - Kelp reforestation
For many years the Algalita Marine Research Foundation has been improving and expanding kelp habitats in the coastal waters of Southern California, in fact that is the origin of AMRF’s name Algalita, which is Spanish for small kelp plant. . This program depicts the ingenious design of the kelp reforestation process. Narrated by AMRF advisor, and kelp project chief engineer Gordon Lehman. - Synthetics Sea
the program that placed the subject of plastic debris in the public conscience. The program is now slightly shorter with the critical message of marine debris dilemma intact. Synthetic Sea is a great way to begin the discussion of bioactive marine debris connected to human generated trash issues.
Giant Sea Bass
DVD, NTSC, $12.00
Dr Michael Domieir, of the Pfleger Institute of Environmental Research, is California’s principal investigator of the Giant Sea Bass. His findings paint a picture of unsuccessful reproduction due, he believes, to endocrine disruption, since these fish feed on the bottom where heavy metals, PCBs and DDT have infiltrated the food web. We see the adults. But where are the babies? It is a good question that remains to be answered.