American Shoreline Podcast Network

On this episode, Peter Ravella and Tyler Buckingham speak with Dr. Victoria Herrmann, the President and Managing Director of the Arctic Institute, a Washington D.C.-based "think and do tank" that seeks to shape policy for a "secure, just, and sustainable Arctic through objective, multidisciplinary research". In addition to managing the Institute and Board of Directors, Dr. Herrmann's focuses her r...

Pristine coastlines, turquoise waters, dream vacations. It’s the Mediterranean, baby. Before we get too lost in daydreaming let’s ground ourselves in the reality of mass tourism in this incredible region. Is ecotourism a plausible model for countries like Spain, Italy, Greece and Albania? Are conservation organizations knocking on the door of the tourism industry? Is the tourism industry answering...

On this week’s episode, we talk with Samantha Carter, Outreach Manager with the National Wildlife Federation to talk about her new project, the Coastal Community Cookbook ! Inspired by the paper bound cookbooks passed around by our grandmothers, the Coastal Community Cookbook is designed to promote our favorite seafood recipes and raise awareness of the issues found along our coast. You can submit...

On this episode, Peter Ravella and Tyler Buckingham talk with Dr. Chip Fletcher, the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Professor at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, Vice-Chair of the  Honolulu Climate Change Commission , and the leader of the Coastal Geology Group, which recently published a study that found that Hawaii's beaches were at an even bigger threat to due to sea level...

This week on episode 4, hosted by Spencer Harper, Ming Wang, and Edgar Velasquez Moreno, we will introduce you to one of the largest coastal marsh restoration projects in the United States.  At one time, we used these lands to make table salt, but now managers are working hard to make the space healthy for marsh grasses and critters.

Peter Ravella and Tyler Buckingham sit down to debrief Peter's trip to the high plains of New Mexico.

Growing up amidst a pandemic, changing climate, mass extinction, and a scourge of pollution isn't easy. Teens today are faced with the monumental task of helping to shape a sustainable future, with the constant reminder of global tragedies weighing heavy on their minds. On this episode of Shaped By The Sea, host Brian Yurasits explores how teens across the globe are stepping up to the plate to add...

On this episode, Peter Ravella and Tyler Buckingham have a packed show beginning with Derek Brockbank, Executive Director of the American Shoreline and Beach Preservation Association to preview the upcoming ASBPA virtual National Conference. Then 2020 Morrough P. O’Brien Award winner Joan Pope joins the show to talk about her legendary career with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, trends in the fi...

This week on ASPN-U, it's episode three of the Oregon State University Living Shorelines Series.  Hosts Ehsan Yazdani and Andy Thanom-wong introduce you to a chronic coastal problem around the world – dune erosion – and a new, cutting edge engineering solution that we may be able to use to protect our coasts.  Subscribe to ASPN-U and catch this four-part series with Oregon State Universi...

What can we learn from 35+ years of public policy and environmental management experience in the public and private sectors? A lot. Join Jenna on this episode as she sits down with one of her role models, Nick DiPasquale, former Director of the EPA's Chesapeake Bay Program, to learn about his lifetime of service and dedication to conservation, effective leadership, and progress.

Join Arica Sears and her guest Jeremy Sampson, CEO of the Travel Foundation, on this episode of Big Tourism. Have you ever wondered who pays the price of upgrading infrastructure beyond resident needs to meet tourism demand, the cost to protect public spaces and natural habitats, the cost of increased exposure to climate change risks, and/or the cost to locals of rising house and land prices drive...

On this week's pod, Peter Ravella and Tyler Buckingham welcome Joseph Scarborough and Cris Weber to the talk about the Coasts, Oceans, Ports, and Rivers Institute (COPRI) Created in 2000, COPRI is a semi-autonomous institute of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), the country's oldest national engineering society. COPRI's services are designed to complement ASCE's traditional civil engi...

This week on Episode 2 of our special ASPN-U kickoff featuring Oregon State University, hosted by Chris O’Day, Kiernan Kelty, and Josh Deaver, we will introduce you to unique artificial islands in Florida where ecologists, engineers, and managers are using mangroves to make the islands into ecosystems.

Two years ago the world watched in sadness as an orca pushed her dead calf through Puget Sound for 17 days. The event brought attention to the unique “Southern Resident Killer Whale” pods that are believed to be starving as their primary food source of king salmon declines. In response to customer concerns, some grocery stores stopped selling king salmon, but that came with unintended consequences...

In the wake of the destruction of Hurricane Laura, we sit down with Chip Kline, Executive Assistant to the Governor for Coastal Activities and Chairman of the CPRA Board. Chip talks about the work CPRA is doing to protect the people who call South Louisiana home, what it’s like in Louisiana’s Emergency Center, what he saw when he toured southwest Louisiana, the importance of coastal restoration in...

This week we sit down with two guests to reflect on where we've come in the years since Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. First we talk to Sidney Coffee, who headed the Governor’s Office of Coastal Activities in 2005 at the time of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. She would go on to be the first chair of the CPRA and has been instrumental in shaping that agency, the Coastal Master Plan, and coastal restora...

On this special Labor Day episode of ASP, Peter Ravella and Tyler Buckingham talk to with the amazing Danni Washington about the state of science communication, reaching the public, and advocating for the ocean realm.  Danni is a force of nature building a media communication empire to build public support for better ocean and coastal policies.  Nothing but ocean love on this special Lab...

This week on Episode 1 of ASPN-U, Oregon State University takes center stage to talk about engineering with nature. Hosted by OSU Grad Students, John Dickey, Meredith Leung, and Jake Light, they introduce you to the little creatures that we love to eat, that clean our water, and that surprisingly can be used to protect our coast – oysters.

It's no longer a surprise that plastics are polluting our world's oceans at unprecedented rates and people are demanding change all across the world. Will businesses rise to the occasion and meet the demands of the next generation? Hosts Brian Yurasits and Arica Sears connect from across the continent to learn about the steps businesses are taking to defeat plastic in the hospitality industry. &nb...

Dan Ginolfi and Howard Marlowe are back with the inside line on the comings and goings up on Capitol Hill, at least as it relates to federal coastal policy and funding.  Always informative!

On this episode, Peter Ravella and Tyler Buckingham take a deep dive into the massive risk of an economic and environmental disaster in Galveston Bay if -- and when -- the "Big One" hits.  Galveston Bay is ringed by massive oil refineries, chemical and petrochemical  facilities, storage tanks filled to the brim with oil, chemicals, fuels, and distillates and these facilities are not stor...

The craze for plant-based products like the Impossible Burger is just getting started and seafood alternatives are next. We talk with a startup CEO in Vienna that is making plant-based fish that looks just like a fillet of salmon after a high-tech 3-D printing process. Dr. Robin Simsa makes the case that there are reasons to supplement your seafood diet with these kinds of plant-based analogs and,...

Fresh off his sailing trip to the Florida Keys, Tyler Buckingham sits down with Peter Ravella to talk about the trip. 

On this extra special, lagniappe episode of Delta Dispatches, we welcome Congressman Garret Graves back to the show. We reflect on the coming 15 year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina and how coastal restoration has played a role in preparing Louisiana for future storms. Rep. Graves also talks about how he sees bipartisan work to create cleaner energy and community resilience in Louisiana.

This week on Delta Dispatches, we speak with Jessica H. Schexnayder about her book, Fragile Grounds , which compiles stories and photographs of endangered cemeteries throughout Louisiana's coastal zone and beyond.