Press and Recorded Presentations
27-Oct-2022
I enjoy opportunities to discuss some of what I think are the world’s most pressing (environmental) issues. But, more importantly, it is critical to get scientific and engineering knowledge out of our labs and universities! Here are a few of my favorite clips. (Sorry if the links stopped working; many of the older ones have since been removed by their original posters and I can no longer find valid links.)
SELECTED MEDIA COVERAGE
2023
- PBS North Carolina: UNCW’s Seahawk-1 Opens a New Eye on the Ocean
- Port City Daily: CFCC and UNCW partner in oceanography education
- StarNews: New studies show ‘unprecedented’ sea-level rise along the North Carolina coast
- StarNews: How a snap happy UNCW satellite is helping fight climate change
- News & Observer: Sea level rise along the NC coast has picked up pace in the last decade. Why?
2022
- WRAL News: Sunny day flooding: NC coastal communities threatened by rising tides
- WECT News: UNCW nanosatellite captures 5,000th photo from space
- UNCW News: Next Phase of Seahawk-1 Ocean Color Satellite Research Takes Flight with $2.2 Million Moore Foundation Grant
- WECT News: Surfers help scientists study changing ocean temperatures by catching waves with a ‘Smartfin’
2021
- Waterloop: conversations about water solutions: Waterloop #99: Sensing the Coast with Phil Bresnahan
- Interview on coastal science and wave physics to be included in Holland America Line’s cruise entertainment
2020
- Washington Post LTE: Trump’s environmental rollbacks are an American attack on American lives
- Life to the Max Podcast: Episode #1: How Surfers Are Saving The World
2019
- SonTek Sound Stream Podcast: Surf’s Up for Science
- San Diego Union Tribune: Someone San Diego Should Know: Phil Bresnahan
- CBC Mainstreet NS: Be a citizen scientist while you surf… Smartfins turn surfboards into ocean monitors
- South by Southwest 2019: SXSW 2019 - Smart Oceans: Tech from Surf to Seafloor
- CBS 8 Live Interview: Smartfin Project: Turning surfers into scientists by catching waves
- Macrofab Podcast: Surfing for Science: Phil Bresnahan of Smartfin
- BBC Sounds: Surfing with a technology packed fin, how citizen science is helping to fill in the gaps in costal ocean surveys
2018
- Creative Mornings: The Science of Community
- NPR All Things Considered: Surfing For Science: A New Way To Gather Data For Ocean And Coastal Research
- BBC Earth Unplugged: How Surfers Help Scientists Study the Ocean
- Seeker (full version): Waves Can Tell Us A Lot About Climate Change, But You Have to Catch Them First
- Seeker (short 1’ clip): With Smartfin tech, surfers are collecting crucial data on our oceans as citizen scientists
- thisweek@ucsandiego: Campus Summit Encourages Collaboration to Solve Environmental Woes
- Top of Mind with Julie Rose: Hang Ten for Oceanography
- Particle.io’s blog: Wiping out climate change with Smartfin, an Electron-connected surfboard fin. The same article was also picked up by Hackernoon
- The Liquid Grid: Smartfin: Crowdsurfing Ocean Data
2017
- Forbes: How Surfboards and IoT Are Making Waves In Climate Change Research
- Science: Scientists put a ‘smartfin’ on my surfboard. Is it the next wave in ocean monitoring?
- Surfer: Smartfin turns surfers into citizen scientists
- Scripps Institution of Oceanography: Around the Pier: Scripps Scientists Help Create and Distribute a “Smartfin” that Turns Surfers into Citizen Scientists
2015
- Scripps Institution of Oceanography: Around the Pier: Standing Up for Science
- CBS8, Innovate 8: SUP, Science
- KCET: Scripps WavepHOx: Science Meets Adventure
2008
- Lehigh University: Water to row, water to purify, water to study