American Shoreline Podcast Network

On this episode of the Local Control podcast, Peter welcomes his good friend Reuben Travino to the show give an update on the flurry of beach work happening in Galveston, Texas. Reuben is the master of all things sand in Galveston, serving as the Director of Operations or the Park Board of Trustees, the entity charged with maintaining the Island's beaches. Reuben walks us through the Sand Manageme...

In this episode of The Capitol Beach, Derek Brockbank interviews Mark Osler with NOAA. As Senior Advisor for Coastal Inundation and Resilience, Mark works across all of NOAA (its four “Services”, two “Departments” and all sub-units) to coordinate and advance coastal resilience throughout the agency. He has a critical behind-the-scenes role with a great perspective on nearly all of NOAA’s coastal w...

On this episode, Jacques talks with one of the most celebrated coastal scientists in the country, Dr. Don Boesch, Professor and President Emeritus at the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science. They talk about his distinguished career including his time as the first director of LUMCON, and his experience on the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore...

On this episode, Peter and Tyler conger up their childhood dreams of diving deep into the sea in a submersible.  We have the ultimate guide:  Shanee Stopnitzky, a real life submarine designer, builder, and pilot and founder of the Community Submersibles Project, a non-profit organization dedicated to inspiring a sense of exploration in our oceans.  Sure, its about technology and wha...

Host Dan Martin welcomes Doug Marcy, Coastal Hazards Specialist at NOAA's Office for Coastal Management. Dan and Doug discuss the amazing work that NOAA and other federal agencies do to gather data and develop tools to make the data usable for the private sector and NGOs. Its a great show!

Howard Marlowe and Don Ginolfi break down the latest from inside the Beltway, including a scathing dunk on climate deniers. It's a can't miss show! 

On today’s episode of Delta Dispatches, Jacques and Simone talk with Lauren Averill, Jefferson Parish Coastal Zone Director, and ASPBA Central Gulf Coast Board member. Lauren discusses the history and importance of coastal management in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana’s most populous coastal parish, and highlights a number of restoration projects underway in the parish.

On this special episode, Peter and Tyler welcome Brad Pickel to the show to introduce the audience to the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway Association (AIWA), the national, non-profit organization started in 1999 with the mission of securing funding and support for the maintenance of the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway (AIWW). The AIWW extends more than 1,100 miles from Norfolk, Virginia to Key West,...

Here are some field notes from Tyler's recent trip to Odessa, Ukraine -  a coastal, port city on the norther shoreline of the Black Sea. 

A floating macroalgae called Sargassum is exploding and forming huge mats of weed across the Caribbean Sea.  It washes ashore on pristine beaches prized by tourists, wreaking havoc on the environment and the economy.  Scientists believe the explosion is driven in large part by a massive nutrient influx from the Amazon River, higher water temperatures, and increased availability of dissol...

On this week’s episode of Delta Dispatches, we’re celebrating #NationalEstuariesWeek! Our friend Kristi Trail, executive director of Lake Pontchartrain Basin Foundation, drops by to talk about one of our favorite estuaries, the Lake Pontchartrain Basin! Learn more about this vital ecosystem and work LPBF is doing to protect it 30 years after the organization's founding. Later in the show, Simone a...

In 2018, Florida suffered through the worst harmful algal bloom in recent decades.  Millions of fish died, washed ashore, and the "stink, stank, stunk" up the beaches and ran off the tourists.  Red Tide and Blue-Green were awash on both the Gulf and Atlantic shorelines with toxic aerosols filling the air and fouling the water in many communities.  Dolphins, manatees and even a few w...

Patrice McCarron, Executive Director of the Maine Lobstermen's Association, joins Peter and Tyler for Part 2 of our series on the conservation effort to save the North Atlantic Right Whale. Patrice shares her organization's perspective on the process, the science, and the ongoing negotiation between the Lobstermen, NOAA and state regulators, and advocates.  Most significantly, Patrice takes i...

Tony McNeal has served the Florida Department of Environmental Protection for 34 years and will be retiring in 2020 as the Administrator of the Coastal Construction Control Line Program that regulates construction along Florida's 825 miles of coastline.  It is a huge job, high stakes, and occasionally -- maybe more than occasionally -- contentious.  Tony was the CCL Program lead for 20 y...

On the American shoreline, there are an army or professional consultants that design, evaluate, assess, permit. and build coastal projects -- everything from hotels, to houses, to parks and beaches.  Peter Ravella, co-host of the American Shoreline Podcast (his co-host, Tyler Buckingham, is at a Ukrainian wedding and will be back next week) sits down with two women to discuss what it takes to...

FSBPA President, Pepper Uchino, joins Peter Ravella on the American Shoreline Podcast. Pepper is two-weeks on the job and promises to bring new and dynamic leadership to this venerable organization of coastal professionals and stakeholders.  We talk about what brought Pepper to FSBPA, what draws us all to the coastline, and the challenges ahead in Florida, including rising seas, more powerful...

From the FSBPA Conference:  Managing eroding beaches is an expensive proposition.  Lots of money, technical challenges, and then there are the permits and the community support to secure.  Doug Smith has been at it almost 20 years as a veteran Martin County Commissioner.  Doug joins Peter Ravella on the American Shoreline Podcast to talk about how to maintain beaches, protect p...

R. Harvey Sasso has been a practicing coastal engineer for more than three decades and now leads one of the many superb firms that serve along the American Shoreline.  As they say, he's been there and done that.  In this episode from the Florida Shore and Beach Preservation Association meeting, Harvey joins Peter Ravella on the American Shoreline Podcast to talk about what's changed over...

Bill Worsham, head of the Coastal Division at LJA Engineering, and long-time lead coastal engineer for Jefferson County, Texas joins Peter Ravella on the Local Control Podcast.  The topic:  mastering the state and federal partnerships necessary to successfully complete big coastal projects.  It is often said, "No person succeeds alone," and that is certainly true when it comes...

It's National Estuary Week on the America shoreline so Peter and Tyler take you to the Florida panhandle's beautiful Emerald Coast with its stunning beaches and incredible estuaries. ASP welcomes Jim Trifilio, Director of the Pensacola & Perdido Bays Estuary Program; Melinda Gates, Estuary Coalition Manager and Coastal Resource Liaison for Walton County; and, Jim Muller, Bay Cou...

Thane co-hosts the Changing Waters Podcast on ASPN with Brad Warren, both from the Pacific Northwest.  Like many parts of the American shoreline, there is a lot to talk about there and the Changing Water hosts are tracking it down.  Thane joins Peter and Tyler to talk about an upcoming show with the leader of the Chinook Tribe on the reemergence of indigenous "canoe cultur...

On The Capitol Beach, Derek Brockbank interviews the three co-executive directors of the US Coastal Research Program (USCRP): Julie Rosati with US Army Corps of Engineers, Hilary Stockdon with US Geological Survey, and Nicole Elko with American Shore & Beach Preservation Association. The USCRP is a multi-agency, academic and stakeholder partnership created to leverage and expand collaboration...

On this week's episode of Delta Dispatches, we're talking fish! Today’s first guest is Chris Macaluso, Director of the Center for Marine Fisheries for the Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership. He reflects on the state of Louisiana's fisheries after a historic year of Mississippi River flooding. Simone and Jacques also talk with another prolific fisherman, Todd Masson, host of the Marsh Man...

On this episode, Peter and Tyler speak with Dr. Michael Asaro, Marine Mammal and Sea Turtle Group Lead at NOAA Fisheries. The subject of discussion is NOAA's effort to safe the North Atlantic Right Whale, of which only some 400 individuals are living. They discuss the current state of the whale, what NOAA is doing to save the species, and the current political situation with the Maine Lobstermen's...

Jenna celebrates her 20th episode of the Sea Change Podcast by sitting down for a lively conversation with her dear friend and colleague, Sarah Winter Whelan. Sarah is the Ocean Policy Program Director and Healthy Oceans Coalition Director for the American Littoral Society and brings a wealth of ocean policy experience and expertise to this conversation. Join these two as they navigate the in...