How does the ocean help shape our world? - with Helen Czerski

The ocean is a giant, complex machine that drives the world we live in - and we ignore it at our peril. Find out why with 2020 Christmas lecturer Helen Czerski.
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Discover the rich diversity of life and movement in our oceans, from ancient navigators to permanent residents of the deep. Explore the vast currents, invisible ocean walls, and underwater waterfalls that shape our oceans' complex systems. Understanding the workings of the global ocean system is essential now that it is under significant threat, so we must put this knowledge to use in order to save our blue machine.
With her passion and expertise in marine science, Helen offers a thrilling and captivating account of our oceans' intricate workings and its significance to our future. Don't miss this opportunity to gain a deeper understanding of our oceans and their fundamental role in our world.
This talk was filmed at the Ri on 1 June 2023
Helen Czerski is a former Christmas Lecturer, physicist and oceanographer with a passion for investigating the interesting things in life. Helen graduated from the University of Cambridge in 2001 with a first in Natural Sciences (Physics), and in 2006 with a PhD in experimental explosives physics.
In 2010, Helen returned to the UK after four years spent working in the USA at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography and URI’s Graduate School of Oceanography. Her academic home now is the Department of Mechanical Engineering at University College London, where she studies the physics of breaking waves and bubbles at the ocean surface.
As a regular science presenter on the BBC for ten years, Helen has covered the physics of the natural world in BBC2 landmark documentaries, and of everyday life in a range of BBC4 documentaries. Helen is also a regular contributor to Horizon, and most recently she presented the BBC show ‘Ocean Autopsy’, examining the damage that humans have caused to the ocean and its habitants.
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[@Video2Webb]

What a fantastic presentation! I was gripped from start to finish! Helen Czerski can definitely inspire people and I hope she goes on ever further to awaken us to the huge significance of our amazing oceans. I feel like the entire presentation needs to end with an 'Amen'. And I am not religious.

[@mrcookies409]

As a peruvian that only hears the economic side of the fishmeal trade, seeing this from a scientific pov is incredibly illuminating, thank you!

[@CarolynFahm]

Helen Czerski is an absolutely brilliant lecturer.

[@arthurmontana8791]

My first time witnessing Dr. Czerski. She is magnificent.

[@TheGuruNetOn]

Her book on Popular Science "Storm in a Teacup" is full of interesting stories linking all of them together to show how totally unrelated seeming phenomena are linked together with basic principles of physics.

[@maedilein6802]

I thought I'd give this a listen for a few minutes and it was so fascinating that I stayed for the whole thing, wanting even more. Well done, Helen Czerski. Now I'll have to buy the book.

[@rturney121]

Why only half audience?! This was my favourite lecture in a long time

[@angel21991]

Love how she brings in the context of discovery of the Hamboldt Current and clarifies it as the first observation in the western world .

[@digiryde]

Oh, how I would love to be in these audiences!

[@garydecad6233]

Wonderful and a most enthusiastic lecturer.

[@space-time-somdeep]

She is such a good teacher 💙

[@allybally2368]

I loved listening to her! She’s a great speaker and kept me focused for the whole talk! Which is saying something! I wish that I had lectures like her when I was in uni.

[@abcde_fz]

. EXCELLENT INFORMATION PRESENTED VERY ENTHUSIASTICALLY By someone very knowledgeable and passionate about The World Ocean!!!

[@andytidnits]

Excellent lecture.

[@imager8763]

The best video from this channel in a long time!

[@henrikmartikainen8472]

Tämä luento on yksi parhaista katsomistani 💯👍❤️ Ei on yksi parhaista sisällön tuottajista❤

[@henrikmartikainen8472]

Korjaus: Ri on yksi parhaista sisällön tuottajista

[@maddi62]

Excellent. Many thanks

[@alex79suited]

Great video, nice analogy 👍. Thank you prof Helen for the insight. It's controls our environment and if climate change is occurring, then that's where we should be looking and trying to correct it. We don't have a climate without the big blue. So don't throw garbage into it, please, or plastics. Let's help the ocean help us and all upon the marble. Peace ✌️ from Canada, eh?

[@toonmoene8757]

Thanks a lot !

[@gateme3247]

love those stuff

[@alvaug2]

How fast she talks! Very interesting!

[@muzikhed]

Brilliant.

[@Roddy1965]

The ocean of course isn't quiet, but Frisk wrote a paper demonstrating that sound levels went up about 3.3 dB decade since the 1950s (3dB is a doubling of sound energy) due to economic activity, that is, container shipping, tying ocean ambient noise levels due to shipping to the global GDP. Despite some of the harms Cousteau may have committed, he also inspired thousands of people to go into ocean science.

[@TheGuruNetOn]

Isaac Asimov's book "New Encyclopedia of Science" talks about the salt water conveyor belt and how it generates the world climate.

[@BankofAmerica12]

Wow wow! What a sight!

[@hochathanfire0001]

Love the Conservation definition: Start from the waste and go from there 🥳🥳🥳💃💃💃💃🍶🍶🍶🍶‼️

[@zapfanzapfan]

Helen, who's enthusiasm launched 1000 ships 🙂

[@user-pw7zk9hh4e]

Wonderfully informative and a little uncomfortable, thank you though RI.

[@solotrotrotro2530]

i am very surprised to see an ocean specialist saying that a moon is just a featureless rock... there are many good theories that defend the ocean currents swells and tide are linked by moon, and we can assume that made a crucial paper in evolution of life, some argue that without the moon the life wont be surged . and, YES , point by point, we know much more about the moon than the oceans, its not just about maping or geography. Lets say we know 95% of moon and 35% of the ocean (just an exemple). The thing is, the ocean is much more complex, big , and hard to study than the moon , and because of that we have more info on the moon. And NO , the Artemis program nothing have to do with 'look back to blue marble Earth ' again , it just a checkpoint base to Mars and a validation plataform for a new long space exploring equipments.

[@Fractus]

A lot of points in here.

[@iampdv]

And of enormous and amazing stuff....

[@classica1fungus]

I have a really sharp point atm

[@user-nm8gx1lp5p]

Good MiLF

[@vansf3433]

It is a good idea to use the natural mechanical. forces of ocean waves to generate electricity to serve human purposes, besides natural and clean thermal energy from sunlight About 3/4 of the Earth's surface are covered by ocean water, and since the Earth's rotational motion is endless, and always under influence of the Moon's pulling force, forces from ocean waves are also endless. They should have been used, instead of burning fossil fuels and building nuclear power plants

[@Bguitarney]

Maybe the ocean is that stuoiditly terrifying deep. Because there's something down there. That needs to stay there

[@andylaweda]

"England" - the Bass Rock (home to a massive number of gannets, very similar to boobies) is in Scotland...

[@addermoth]

'England' - Baird, Bell, Fleming, Kelvin, Maxwell, Watt et all will be spinning in their respective graves.

[@akaDustyn]

You could BEE anything to me.

[@Andre-qo5ek]

the ocean is a literal thermal-chemical-mechanical-biological battery 🔋🔋

[@badlaamaurukehu]

With external input.

[@5Andysalive]

The Humboldt biography from Andrea Wulf would have been a lot better without the constant political lecturing. Fascinating man, very forward thinking in many areas where this was not ususal at the time. But he could (and did) speak for himself. He doesn't need to be abused as a vehicle for awfully far fetched crowbarriing into our politics. Her agenda takes way too much space up in the book.

[@avg4015]

All very interesting and I learned a lot but can someone please tell her to take some calming meds before she starts a talk? Enthousiasm is thumbs up. But following a person who is verbally jumping around and totally losing words and even sentences is absolutely exhausting.

[@badlaamaurukehu]

The problem with the "blind man analogy" is that everyone assumes that blind men are idiots while also believing that Hellen Keller wasn't a hoax.

[@TheCommuted]

It looks like a kidney

[@TronSAHeroXYZ]

Water costs money......= Monopoly

[@matejbludsky8410]

Fascinating but the speaker needs to get better and giving lectures really, talks way too fast and disorganized. Doesn’t build any connection to the audience

[@800Viffer]

She is normally a very good narrator \ orator. She's excellent in the BBC programmes she narrated.

[@toma5153]

Why not set up your own YT videos about how to be a better narrator/presenter?

[@matejbludsky8410]

@@toma5153 why not take constructive criticism without putting labels and pointing fingers ? :) Clearly i don’t need to have a YT channel to teach how to present topics for me to give constructive criticism, or do I ??

[@toma5153]

@@matejbludsky8410 I dunno man. That lecture was fine by me. Don't know where you got lost in the weeds. See some of the other positive comments about the lecturer in the comments section. No need for a Michael Sugrue in every YT vid.

[@matejbludsky8410]

@@toma5153 the fact that you liked it does not mean it was good really. Same for me i thought it could be better, doesn’t mean it wasn’t good for you. But constructive criticism is thew way all day. If no one points out your mistakes you are not going to improve on them are you ?

[@markxxx21]

This speaker's lecture is very disjointed. She needs some public speaking classes. Also outside of the War of the Pacific, no wars of any size were fought over guano. And that was was more of a land grab by Chile anyway. Her basic message is the world is interconnected. Yeah? That message has been around for hundreds of years.

[@JoJoBoOzK.O.]

JoOo? ! ?

[@KayveMusic]

I like the way you rant about anuses and poo.