American Shoreline Podcast Network

Jacques and Simone start the show talking about the hottest debate in coastal Louisiana: is dipping crawfish a crime against humanity or merely deeply unsettling. Once that’s settled, they talk to Stacy Ortego with the Louisiana Wildlife Federation to talk about the progress made on one of our favorite restoration projects: the River Reintroduction into Maurepas Swamp. Finally, they dig deep with...

On this episode, Peter Ravella and Tyler Buckingham are joined by Kimberly Miller, the Chair of the American Planning Association's Harvey Recovery Task Force and Senior Planner at Halff Assocates. Kimberly is organizing a symposium on coastal planning titled "Navigating a Wetter World: A Resilient Rebirth of the Texas Coast" which will take place at the Saltwater Pavillion in Rockport, Texas on F...

Join two Oregonians, Big Tourism show host Arica Sears and her guest Andrew Grossmann, Destination Development Manager at Travel Oregon, as they open up a conversation about destination management through the lens of tourism. Does the tourism industry have an official definition for ‘Destination Management’? What unique partnerships can be formed to address tourism challenges? How can out-of-the-b...

On this special episode of the Shorewords! podcast, host Lesley Ewing is joined by the guest editors of the latest issue of Shore & Beach Magazine, Tiffany Roberts Briggs and Lindino Benedet. The issue is dedicated to 2017 and 2018 hurricane season and the the scholarly work and scientific research that came about in their wake. Tiffany Roberts Briggs is an Assistant Professor in the Departmen...

On this special episode of the American Shoreline Podcast recorded live from the Social Coast Forum 2020 in Charleston, South Carolina, Peter Ravella and Tyler Buckingham are joined by a panel of authors of America's Third Coast a series that offers important insights on Gulf Coast history, life, and culture. In particular, the Series is designed to highlight the economic activities and the enviro...

Live from the Social Coast Forum 2020 in Charleston, South Carolina, Peter Ravella, Tyler Buckingham, and Bill O'Beirne sit down with Dr. Christine B. Feurt, the Coastal Training Director for the Wells National Estuary Research Reserve and the Director of the Center for Sustainable Communities at the University of New England. Her work in the Gulf of Maine watershed focuses on community based ecos...

Live from the Social Coast Forum 2020 in Charleston, South Carolina Peter Ravella, Tyler Buckingham, and Bill O'Beirne talk to Margaret Allen, the Fellowship Coordinator NOAA Office for Coastal Management. The Coastal Management Fellowship was established in 1996 to provide on-the-job education and training opportunities in coastal resource management and policy for postgraduate students and to pr...

Live from the Social Coast Forum 2020, Peter Ravella, Tyler Buckingham, and Bill O'Beirne sit down with Ginger Hinchcliff, the chief of the Learning Services Division for NOAA’s Office for Coastal Management and one of the principal organizers of the Social Coast Forum. We talk about the importance of social science in coastal management, the history of the Social Coast Forum, and what the future...

Live from the Social Coast Forum 2020, Peter, Tyler, and Bill sit down with Skip Stiles,  Executive Director of Wetlands Watch, a statewide nonprofit environmental group based in Norfolk, VA.  Sea levels in Norfolk are rising faster than any other place on the American shoreline.  Well beyond Clapper Rails and Spartina, Wetlands Watch is engaged in the difficult issue of managed ret...

Live from the Social Coast Forum 2020, Peter Ravella, Tyler Buckingham, and Bill O'Beirne sit down with Jeanne Herb, the Executive Director of the Environmental Analysis & Communications Grou p, at the Rutgers University Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy.  Coastal management is people management and, as Jeanne explains, it is critical to incorporate strong community engagemen...

Both coastal adaptation professionals and their stakeholders are increasingly asked to deal with uncertainty, surprise and difficult transformative change as they face growing threats from climate change, including sea-level rise and extreme events. They also face a growing psychological crisis. The list of traumatizing disasters grows longer every year: Katrina, Irene, Sandy, Matthew, Maria, Harv...

Nicole LeBoeuf is the Assistant Administrator of NOAA's National Ocean Service (NOS), the nation’s premier ocean and coastal science agency.  Its mission is to provide science-based solutions through collaborative partnerships to address evolving economic, environmental and social pressures on our marine environment.  NOS is a powerhouse agency and Nicole is the leader helping shape...

Live from the Social Coast Forum 2020, Peter and Tyler sit down with Rebecca Roth, Executive Director of the National Estuarine Research Reserve Association (NERRA), a national nonprofit established in 1987 to advance the work of the Reserve System.  NERRA is the host organization for the Social Coast Forum, the most innovative coastal conference we've attended.  And, we take a look at t...

Live from the Social Coast Forum, Peter and Tyler sit down with the keynote speaker from the opening plenary, Surili Sutaria Patel, Director of the  Center for Climate, Health & Equity at the American Public Health Association.  From her unique vantage point, Patel documents how climate change is impacting community health today and that the coming changes will likely affect us all,...

Peter Ravella, Tyler Buckingham, and Bill O'Beirne kick off ASPN's coverage of the Social Coast Forum 2020.   Get a feel for what's in the cue, learn what this unique conference is all about, and stretch your mental mussels with an entirely new topic.  We have lots of great content coming your way on ASPN, so stay tuned this week!

On this episode, Peter Ravella and Tyler Buckingham talk to Dr. Frederick Steiner, Dean of the University of Pennsylvania Stuart Weitzman School of Design. Dr. Steiner is at the vanguard of resiliency thinking and is also the author of Design with Nature Now, a celebration of the 50th anniversary of Ian McHarg’s seminal book, Design with Nature , which set forth a new vision for regional plan...

Howard Marlowe and Dan Ginolfi are back with the January DC update. On this show they discuss the status of the Corps work plan, narrower beaches by design, the Great Lakes coastal resiliency study, California going solar, and finally the Democrats' infrastructure proposal.

Welcome to Delta Dispatches with solo host Jacques Hebert. Today’s first guest is Erik Johnson, Director of Bird Conservation of Audubon Louisiana. Erik talks about the restoration of one of Louisiana’s most important pelican rookeries, Queen Bess Island. They also discuss some of the great work Audubon Louisiana is doing across the coast including an upcoming beach-nesting bird volunteer opportun...

Peter and Tyler are joined by Derek Brockbank (Executive Director of the American Shore and Beach Preservation Association and host of the Capitol Beach podcast), Shannon Cunniff (recently retired from the Environmental Defense Fund and board member of ASBPA) and Annie Mercer (ASPBA Fellow) to discuss the recently released white paper titled "Local Funding for Coastal Projects: An Overview of Prac...

This week Jacques and Simone are joined by filmmakers Dom and Nadia Gil with Encompass Films to discuss "Last Call for the Bayou" their 5 short documentaries about Louisiana's land loss crisis. The films are currently being shown at festivals around the country. One film, "On a Wing and a Prayer" was released online by CNN's "Great Big Story," while the other films will be released online later th...

On this episode of the American Shoreline Podcast, we preview the 2020 Social Coast Forum coming up in Charleston February 3-6.  Peter and Tyler welcome the organizers, Rebecca Roth, Executive Director of the National Estuarine Research Reserve Association (NERRA), and Lisa Auermuller, President of NERRA and a manager at the Jacques Cousteau National Estuarine Research Reserve (JC NERR) in Tu...

On the first episode of 2020, Simone and Jacques speak with Brad Barth, Operations Assistant Administrator for the Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority (CPRA). Brad talks about one of Louisiana’s cornerstone restoration projects: the Mid-Barataria Sediment Diversion. The CPRA recently completed modeling that showed this project protecting 47 square miles of land over 50 years.

On this episode of the American Shoreline Podcast, Peter and Tyler sit down with Kathleen Ligon, Special Assistant to the Administrator of the Texas Water Development Board (TWDB), the state agency responsible for water planning and administering the state revolving funds for drinking water and clean water (i.e. sewage treatment) facilities.  In the good old days, flood planning, mitigation,...

Howard and Dan break down the most pressing coastal issues working their way through the Nation's capital. On this episode kicking off the 2020 calendar year, they discuss the federal appropriations bill and work plan, the US dredge budget, BUDM pilot projects, legal issues related to Hurricane Harvey, and conclude with a discussion about all politics being local. Don't miss it!

On this episode of The Capitol Beach, host Derek Brockbank dives in to “GOMESA,” speaking with former Louisiana Senator Mary Landrieu, Director of Mississippi Department of Marine Resources, Joe Spraggins, and Mobile, Alabama County Commissioner, Connie Hudson. The Gulf of Mexico Energy Security Act of 2006 directed federal funding generated from offshore oil production in the Gulf of Mexico to be...