American Shoreline Podcast Network

Gabby Goss and Kaden Anderson are both Bay Area high school students and filmmakers. Peter and Tyler sat down with Gabby and Kaden to discuss their films and how they decided to dedicate themselves to making films about the ocean. Kaden's film is Why Seagoers Hate the Color Purple - 1st Place High School. Gabby's film is Plastic Sea, 2nd Place High School. 

One of the highlights of the festival was getting the opportunity to meet and speak with student filmmakers.  Arjun and Abi Subramanian made the film The Ennore of Today, a rich film about their grandmother's coastal hometown of Ennore, India, which has undergone a tremendous transformation as three coal-fired power plants have been built along the shore.   These two young filmmaker...

While at IOFF, Peter and Tyler sat down with Hendrik and Claudia Schmitt of The Jetlagged. These adventurers/underwater photographers/filmmakers from Germany have attended the the past four festivals. This year, the festival screened Fragile - Why Turtle Hatchlings Need The Sea. Here is our (quiet) conversation at the Firehouse.  

Gaelin Rosenwaks is a marine scientist, explorer, photographer, and filmmaker. Always fascinated by the marine world, Gaelin began diving at 14 and has since continued exploring ocean ecosystems. She began her career at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution where she researched over-wintering patterns of Southern Ocean zooplankton. Gaelin earned her Master’s Degree in Coastal Environmental...

Gerry Cushman (F/V Bug Catcha)   is a lifelong resident of Port Clyde, Maine and remains a tireless advocate for keeping community-based fishermen on the water with viable fishing businesses. His father was a groundfish fisherman, and Gerry is committed to having a healthy Gulf of Maine ecosystem and a healthy fishing fleet in the future. You can find Gerry fishing for lobster...

On this episode of Local Control, Peter Ravella speaks with Robert Young, the Director of the Program for the Study of Developed Shorelines, a joint Duke University/Western Carolina University venture.  He is also a Professor of Geology at Western Carolina University and a licensed professional geologist in three states (FL, NC, SC). The Program for the Study of Developed Shorelines (PSDS) is...

Welcome to Delta Dispatches with hosts, Jacques Hebert and Simone Maloz. On today’s show, Kristi Trail of the Lake Pontchartrain Basin Foundation talks to Jacques and Simone about the unprecedented opening of the Bonnet Carre Spillway for the third time in four years. Chip Kline, chairman of the Louisiana Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority (CPRA) also stops by to talk about the Bonnet Ca...

Peter, Lesley, and Tyler sit down with Elaine Forbes, Executive Director, Port of San Francisco. Elaine leads the Port to responsibly manage the waterfront as the gateway to a world-class city and advances environmentally and financially sustainable maritime, recreational, and economic opportunities to serve the City, Bay Area region, and California. At the recommendation of the Por...

It's the final day of the International Ocean Film Festival. Peter and Tyler break down some of the memorable moments from the past 24 hours and then are joined by Ana Blanco, the Executive Director of the fest to look ahead to the final night. 

On this special episode of the American Shoreline Podcast, Peter Ravella, Lesley Ewing, and Tyler Buckingham sit down and discuss the goings on at the International Ocean Film Festival, some of our favorite films so far, and who we look forward to speaking with on the podcast network over the next day of the fest.

Peter and Tyler are tucked away behind the Cowell Theater for a quick edition of the Friday Happy Hour.  Topics of discussion include our first impressions of the film fest so far and a look ahead to the coverage we have in store for the rest of the festival! Cheers, everyone!

Lesley Ewing kicks off the Shorewords! podcast with Dr. Gary B. Griggs, longtime Professor of Earth Sciences at the University of California, Santa Cruz and author of a dozen books, over 100 articles, and several scientific reports.  Join us as Gary talks about how books changed his life, the coastal topics that have dominated his writing, his approach to writer’s block, and his favorite type...

On this episode of the Capitol Beach, Derek Brockbank welcomes Bradley Watson, Executive Director of Coastal States Organization (CSO) to the show. ASBPA and CSO are close allies and frequently partner on policy issues. The conversation includes discussion about ASBPA and CSO's joint policy position, the history of the Coastal States Organization including how the Coastal Zone Management Act helpe...

On this episode of the American Shoreline Podcast, Peter Ravella and Tyler Buckingham welcome Dr. Joseph G. Kunkel to the show. Joe, as he prefers to be called, is the professor emeritus at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and Research Professor University of New England in Biddeford, Maine. As part of our ongoing coverage of the American Shoreline's fisheries, we have been following the "m...

Welcome to happy hour. On this Millennial Edition of the show, Tyler Buckingham and Jenna Valente grab drinks and chat about what's on their Millennial minds. Jenna gets the first round, and tells us about a cool birthday party she went to recently in Boston. The party was unique in that all the attendees were required to deliver a presentation on a subject of their own choosing. Of course, Jenna...

Howard Marlow and Dan Ginolfi sit down for their monthly federal update on ASPN. On this episode, Howard and Dan discuss whats going on with the boarder wall and the USACE, and how the ripples created by the President's decision to direct money towards the wall have spread as throughout the Defense Department.  They then how discuss how public private partnerships and other "alternative" fina...

On today’s show Kara Lankford, Director of Gulf Coast Restoration at National Audubon Society, stops by to about Audubon's latest Comprehensive Gulf Restoration Plan. The report highlights projects and programs critical to helping the region. Later on the show, Erik Johnson, Director of Bird Conservation for Audubon, Louisiana, joins the show to talk about the elusive Black Rail and why coastal re...

On this episode of the American Shoreline Podcast, Peter Ravella and Tyler Buckingham sit down with Dr. Susan Hovorka, Senior Research Scientist at the Bureau of Economic Geology, Jackson School of Geosciences, at The University of Texas at Austin. She has worked on diverse topics related to water quality protection, waste storage in bedded salt, and reservoir characterization. Her current researc...

On this episode of Sea Change, Jenna Valente catches up with her longtime friend Erika Zambello, Communications and Marketing Coordinator for the Choctawhatchee Basin Alliance . Choctawhatchee Basin Alliance is a non-profit organization responsible for sustaining healthy local waterways through monitoring, education, restoration, and research. We learn about the Choctawhatchee Basin and broader re...

Welcome to the Changing Waters podcast, a new show on ASPN about the ocean, the people who depend on it, and the people who are working to keep it healthy. On this special inaugural episode we are treated to a conversation with the former President of Ireland, Mary Robinson, a self-proclaimed climate justice activist. The interview is conducted by Camorah King, a graduate student at the Middlebury...

On today’s show, Peter Ravella and Tyler Buckingham stop by to tell listeners about Coastal News Today and the American Shoreline Podcast Network, which will now be featuring the Delta Dispatches podcast. Listen in to hear all about the work Tyler and Peter are doing for the coast and what’s coming up in Delta Dispatches.

On this episode of the American Shoreline Podcast, Peter Ravella and Tyler Buckingham speak with Ana Blanco ahead of the 16th Annual International Ocean Film Festival. Ana, the Festival's Executive Director, explains how the festival was started and how its evolved over the years. Then she give us a sneak peak into this year's festival, March 7-10 in San Francisco. Since its launch in 2004, IOFF h...

On this episode of the Catch Curve, Robert Jones is joined by Emily Muehlstein, Public Information Officer for the Gulf Fisheries Management Council, and Patrick Banks, the Assistant Secretary of the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries, for an introductory discussion into the world of fisheries management. Unlike the management of terrestrial resources which can be more easily observed,...

On this episode, Dan Martin is joined by Greg Weykamp of Edgewater Resources. Greg Weykamp has more than 24 years of experience in the planning and design of the public realm, with an emphasis on implementation of sustainable built landscapes and urban waterfront environments.  His project experience spans waterfront parks, marinas, master planned communities, urban revitalization, stree...

On this special episode, Peter Ravella and Tyler Buckingham welcome Jacques Hebert and Simone Maloz to the show to introduce themselves and their show, Delta Dispatches, to the ASPN audience. Delta Dispatches has been telling the story of the Louisiana coast over a year, discussing its shoreline, its people, wildlife and jobs, and why restoring it matters. Jacques P. Hebert works as the National A...