RALEIGH \u2014 Once a year, in late August and early September, an extraordinary confluence of some of the world\u2019s most charismatic marine creatures occurs. Visit the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences for a live look at California\u2019s Monterey Bay and watch one of nature\u2019s great \u201creality\u201d shows, featuring humpback whales, blue whales, sea lions, dolphins, elephant seals, sea otters, great white sharks, shearwaters and brown pelicans. This broadcast of \u201cBig Blue Live,\u201d presented in collaboration with UNC-TV, takes place Monday, August 31 at 8-9pm ET in the Museum\u2019s WRAL Theater. Museum doors open at 7pm with additional Museum programming starting at 7:30pm. Free.<\/p>\n
Delivered through state-of-the-art filming technologies and live reports from air, sea and below the waves, this new production from PBS and the BBC is a rare glimpse into the once endangered and now thriving ecosystem of Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary. The multi-platform event will be anchored by four on-air correspondents from a reporting hub at the Aquarium and from aboard NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) Office of National Marine Sanctuaries’ research vessels.<\/p>\n
The on-air correspondents include Dr. M. Sanjayan, the host of \u201cEARTH: A New Wild,\u201d recently on PBS, and currently the senior scientist at Conservation International; Liz Bonnin, a science broadcast journalist based in the UK known for her work on the BBC science programs \u201cBang Goes the Theory\u201d and \u201cStargazing Live\u201d; Dr. Joy Reidenberg, the host of \u201cSex in the Wild,\u201d recently on PBS, and a comparative anatomist with expertise in marine mammals, will be on location as a primary science contributor, providing insight into the anatomy of the wide range of marine life that populates Monterey Bay; Steve Backshall, an award-winning naturalist, writer and TV anchor known for his work on BBC\u2019s \u201cDeadly 60.\u201d Matt Baker, a UK-based news anchor known best for his work on \u201cThe One Show,\u201d a daily magazine program airing on BBC will appear on the BBC live broadcast. Leading scientists and other experts will provide additional insights on different aspects of marine life and ecology.<\/p>\n
Show up early for a presentation about fish biodiversity on America’s Pacific Coast by the Museum\u2019s new Research Curator of Ichthyology, Alex Dornburg, at 7:30pm. Dornburg will also be taking questions from the audience following the showing of \u201cBig Blue Live.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBig Blue Live\u201d airs on PBS \u2014 in North Carolina it will be shown on UNC-TV, North Carolina’s statewide public television network\u2014 over three consecutive nights, August 31-September 2, at 8pm ET. The show will have multi-platform support from digital and social media, as well as from PBS Learning Media and UNC-TV Learning Media at www.unctv.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1712,"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/1711"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/1711\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}