oh we're going to kwmr i'm going to do
my radio show ocean currents
in 15 minutes
so this is the community radio station
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my name is jenny stock and i'm the
education and outreach coordinator at
cordell bank national marine sanctuary i
was driving to work and listening to the
community radio station
and they were saying that they love
having volunteer programmers come in and
pitch shows and i thought huh maybe we
should do a show about the ocean
welcome
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so i just started to pursue it and i
thought why don't i do this and so i
went to the station i told them what i
wanted and they said yes and i started
the show 11 years ago
a show is called ocean currents and i
focus on all ocean topics and i try to
focus as much as i can on local national
marine sanctuary topics to bring the
things that are happening in the world
to the local listening audience but also
it goes nationally
you're listening to kwmr point reyes
station
and i want to give you a quick weather
report before we dive into ocean
currents this afternoon radio station
broadcasts online and i also save each
show as a podcast so anybody can listen
i grew up on long island and i got to
spend a lot of time on the long island
sound in the atlantic ocean my dad was a
science teacher and an environmental
educator and i learned all about nature
and ecology through him
i
just slowly grew to realize that the
salt water and the ocean was like the
place that i was most interested in
started working for the national park
service as an interpreter and realized
that my love was
really in sharing my love of nature and
the ocean and salt water habitats with
people
and so i started developing my career
around education and interpretation
having the opportunity to come to
sanctuaries was like a dream come true
to be able to just land in one place and
develop a career around it
working as education coordinator has
been very challenging and rewarding the
challenging part being that my sanctuary
is totally offshore it's a place that's
really not easy to visit the real
reason it is a national marine sanctuary
is because the amazing biology the
biodiversity
and the incredible habitats that are
there not necessarily for the things
people can do there but what i love is
the challenge of bringing that place to
people through different arts and media
and exhibits and really showing people
the intricate nature of this amazing
offshore world
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so cordell bank is this rocky geographic
feature on the sea floor
that's about four and a half miles wide
by eight and a half miles long
the rocky structure of it actually
originated as part of the southern
sierra nevada mountains it moved and
shifted and so that's where it is now is
right off the coast of bodega bay
and this rocky structure makes a great
place for animals to land and to build
habitats around it's very diverse and
surrounded by soft sediment and so it's
it's kind of like this needle in the
haystack on the seafloor having this
rocky structure that supports so many
animals
my favorite part is
when i actually get to go out there
we've been able to do a couple missions
offshore with the exploration vessel
nautilus and that was a real career
highlight because we're doing this
incredible
deep sea research learning about this
habitat we've never actually seen before
which was so exciting but actually being
able to communicate with people and
share
live was really rewarding for me because
i work so often in
telling people how amazing it is but
they can't see it themselves so it's
really cool to be there and interacting
with audiences on land
so many places around the world that are
really touched by humans this place
seemed to be untouched by humans
it's just so wild and beautiful
so it's very exciting to be able to work
for a place that we're still kind of
discovering and it's always a treat to
actually get to see it
the ocean supports our lives i mean the
air that we breathe it's the
temperatures that make this life
habitable the water that we need in our
daily lives is moved around through the
ocean
i think also is the sense of peace
and calm that comes with the salt water
is something that is just needed in my
soul
and i've had that ever since being a kid
and for me it feels like home to me
whenever i'm anywhere near salt water
and that's you know through work but
also through play
i love helping other people
learn something new about a place that i
value and treasure
and see them build their awe of the
ocean and special places like cordell
bank national marine sanctuary
one of the things that i've loved about
this place is that just off our coast we
have this incredible slice of
biodiversity that is really hard to
match from the abundance of life and the
diversity of species the fact that
species travel from all around the
pacific to come eat here it's really
just this hot spot
and i really hope that as we move
forward 30 years from now that it stays
as biodiverse and as exciting and
abundant as it is right now
thanks so much for listening enjoy the
ocean bay or whatever body of water you
can get into safely this has been ocean
currents here on community radio for
west marin kwmr
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