American Shoreline Podcast Network

It has been a jam-packed month in the Nation's capital. Howard Marlowe and Dan Ginolfi bring us the latest news and analysis from inside the halls of Congress. Will there be more coastal funding coming to the American Shoreline? Tune in and find out!

In this episode of Delta Dispatches, Jacques and Simone talk about the restoration of the “longest Main Street in the world!” First up, we catch up with Ryan M. Perque, Executive Director of the Friends of the Bayou Lafourche. He talks about the history of the waterway and the work his organization and others are doing to restore it. In the second half of the show, we continue our conversation abo...

In this episode, in celebration of Independence Day around the American Shoreline, Peter Ravella and Tyler Buckingham welcome ocean education and communication pioneer Peter Neill to the show. Peter Neill is an author and an editor on environmental and ocean issues, and the founding Director of the World Ocean Observatory , a web-based place for education and information exchange on the health of...

On this month’s episode of The Ocean Decade Show, Taylor is joined by aquanaut, communicator, educator, and 3rd generation ocean explorer Fabien Cousteau and Northeastern University’s Dr. Brian Helmuth on an episode guaranteed to make you smile. The trio discuss the importance of the “Inspiring and Engaging” goal of the Ocean Decade and how Cousteau’s proposed “international space station under th...

Welcome to the Rising Sea Voices Podcast (RSVP) on the American Shoreline Podcast Network! Hosted by Oregon Sea Grant 2021 Resilience Fellow Felicia Olmeta-Schult, RSVP will highlight the work of undergraduate and graduate students and early-career professionals in coastal, estuarine, and ocean science and engineering. In this inaugural episode, Felicia will tell you more about RSVP goals and miss...

On this episode, Peter Ravella and Tyler Buckingham continue their coverage of the offshore wind energy boom occurring around the American Shoreline, this time focusing on the exciting plans already in the works to bring offshore wind to the Golden State. Joining the show is the Executive Director of Offshore Wind California, Adam Stern, a California-based environmental and climate leader with mor...

On this special rerun of the Beach Shack (recorded on New Year's Day 2020), Tyler sits down with Lucy Bellwood at his favorite beach shack in Ventura, CA to discuss the power of cartoons in education, in particular in the areas of science and maritime culture. Lucy is a professional Adventure Cartoonist, author, and educator based in Portland, Oregon. Her work brings enthusiastic tales of explorat...

Welcome to  North Coast Chronicles: Tales from the Great Lakes  with host, Helen Brohl. Born and raised along the southern shores of Lake Erie, Helen will share experiences, observations, and charming characters from the Great Lakes and region. The first episode is called "March of the Mayflies" with Dr. Carmen Trisler, an aquatic entomologist from Wittenberg University who teaches us ab...

As summer kicks off and tourism ramps back up in Louisiana, Simone and Jacques welcome Jared Sternberg, founder of Beyond the Bayou eco-tours, to discuss how and why he founded his business as well as their tour offerings, eco-tourism as a tool for coastal education, and a new partnership with the Old 77 Hotel in New Orleans to bring more people out into the swamp.

On this episode, hosts Peter Ravella and Tyler Buckingham are joined by guest host Taylor Goelz ( host of ASPN's Ocean Decade Show! and Program Manager of the Shipping Decarbonization Initiative at The Aspen Institute ) to discuss the exciting future trends of maritime shipping decarbonization. Joining the show is Bryan Comer, the Marine Program Lead at The International Council on Clean Transport...

On June 19, 1865, just after the end of the Civil War, Union General Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston, Texas and read General Order No. 3 informing Texas slaves that the Emancipation Proclamation had been signed two and a half years earlier by President Lincoln. June 19th has long been referred to as "Juneteenth" in the African-American community and is the oldest national commemorati...

We believe every month is ocean month, but each year the American Shoreline Podcast Network, along with the broader ocean community, spends the month of June amplifying messaging about ocean and coastal issues to raise awareness and ramp up stewardship and action in honor of National Ocean Month. This is why we've decided to call June National Ocean ACTION month. Join Jenna, she'll need company, a...

In this episode, host Admiral Tim Gallaudet explores Tourism & Recreation, major components of the America’s Blue Economy. Our topics will include such cool coastal activities  as surfing, sailing, boating, diving, foiling, and fishing, as well as ocean and coastal conservation which is essential to sustaining the beauty and health of these special places. We will also discuss the role of...

On this episode we go deep, very deep, to the bottom of the sea to discuss the future of seabed with Phil McCabe, an activist on this issue of seabed conservation from New Zealand. For five years, Phil served as the Chairperson of Kiwis Against Seabed Mining (KASM), during which he led a ground-up, cross-sector movement successfully challenging three global precedent-setting seabed mining applicat...

On this special rebroadcast, Brian Yurasits sits down with Rocco Costa to chat about recreational fishing in New York. Rocco descends from a classic Italian fishing family who has navigated New York's waterways for 3 generations. When he's not chasing bottom-fish offshore, Rocco works as a charter boat deckhand and runs a Facebook community group called Cod On The Rod. This Italian Stallion h...

In this episode of Going Coastal, your co-hosts Jon and Marissa will introduce you to the president and vice president of the SNP Chapter: Eve Eisemann and Taylor Zimmerman! We’ll give you a behind-the-scenes view of these dynamic leaders, their early experiences with ASBPA, and how they came to be in their current positions. Eve and Taylor will fill you in on how the SNP went from being a committ...

We have a whole 10 years to celebrate the ocean during the Ocean Decade, but we're doubling up this month as June is officially World Ocean Month and June 8th is World Ocean Day! This month's episode of The Ocean Decade Show is combining these celebrations and digging deep into the first Decade Actions that have been endorsed as part of the Ocean Decade. Julian Barbière of the IOC, the "godfa...

On this episode, Peter Ravella and Tyler Buckingham welcome Helen Brohl to the show to talk about her new show coming out on ASPN later this month, "North Coast Chronicles: Tales from the Great Lakes." Carved 14,000 years ago, the Great Lakes are the freshwater seas of America's North Coast. Over 1200 miles from the mouth of the entrance to the St. Lawrence River to Duluth, Minnesota, they offer d...

On this special rebroadcast of the Sea Change podcast, Jenna Valente is joined by Danni Washington, the co-founder of Big Blue and You,  co-creator of Sea Youth Rise Up, a science communicator, an ocean advocate, and a television personality. A Miami native with Jamaican roots, Danni Washington is deeply passionate about oceans and science communications. She dreamed of studying the oceans si...

The Serra de Tramuntana mountain range in Mallorca, Spain is a UNESCO world heritage site under the ‘cultural heritage’ category. With centuries of rich history and multiple cultures shaping the people and physical landscape of the Mediterranean island it’s no wonder the mountain range and the communities that live around it boast some of the best festivals and outdoor recreation experiences. Join...

Howard and Dan team up with Derek Brockbank from the Coastal States Organization to break down the President’s FY22 budget proposal. The big question: How well does the proposal do to address sea level rise and climate change?

This week, Peter Ravella and Tyler Buckingham welcome Dr. James Sullivan back to the show to discuss the condition of Florida's harmful algal blooms, most notably Cyanobacteria (blue-green algae) and Karenia brevis (red tide). Dr. James Sullivan — nicknamed "Dr. Doom of the Algal Bloom" by his wife — is a leading algal researcher and Executive Director of Florida Atlantic University’s Harbor Branc...

In this special rebroadcast of the first of Changing Waters' 2019 series on the plight of southern resident killer whales, National Fisheries Conservation Center's Deputy Director Julia Sanders interviews NOAA researcher Laurie Weitkamp about the food web effects caused by recent heat waves in the Pacific ocean, including the "warm blob." These changing conditions have caused major disturbances al...

On The Capitol Beach, Derek Brockbank looks at the Federal Flood Risk Management Standard (FFRMS) with Chad Berginnis from the  Association of State Flood Plain Managers (ASFPM)  and Joel Scata with  NRDC . The FFRMS was an Obama-era Executive Order (EO 13690) that required any infrastructure project that received federal flooding to demonstrate some level of flood risk pr...

If there’s one thing we can count on along our dynamic coasts, it’s change. With rising seas, warming waters, and extreme storms reshaping our shores, now more than ever, coastal communities need reliable data to make sense of the changes they can see, and those they can’t. In this episode, Reserve scientists Dr. Jude Apple (Padilla Bay) and Dr. Kari St. Laurent (Delaware) take host Peter Ravella...