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 has an encyclopedia of local fishing knowledge stored in his brain. Brian picks Rocco's noggin' to learn what makes someone a 'hardcore' fisher in New York, why recreational fishers distrust the science behind regulations, and how fishers can help support a healthy ocean for future generations to enjoy. And of course there are some salty sea tales mixed in for your listening pleasure! It's important that we open our ears to the people on the frontlines of ocean issues, and Rocco has some seriously useful insight.

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 committee to a chapter, and offer some tips on how students can start a local student chapter at their university or college. They also discuss the Coastal Universities Guide, a new online resource to help students and professionals at all levels identify coastal-related degrees and programs within our universities. Check out the link below to access the Guide! Eve and Taylor can be reached at asbpa.snp@gmail.com for all who wish to join SNP, learn more about establishing a local student chapter, or have questions about the Coastal Universities Guide!

Learn more about ASBPA at: https://asbpa.org

The Coastal Universities Guide can be found here: https://asbpa.org/get-involved/coastal-universities-guide/

Join the SNP Facebook Group: https://asbpa.org/about-us/chapters/students-new-professionals/

Follow Jon on Instagram and Twitter: @StevensCoastal

Connect with Marissa on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mtorres480/

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 "godfather" of the Ocean Decade, is our guest and and provided an overview of these Actions and great insight into what it takes to run this 10 year initiative!

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 diverse ecology, flora, fauna, fish ~ and human experiences. On her new show, Helen will explore all of these elements of the Great Lakes with experts and local characters, bringing the North Coast to life. Helen Brohl was appointed as the first Executive Director of the US Committee on the Marine Transportation System in July 2006 by Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta. As a career Senior Executive, Ms. Brohl manages the CMTS partnership, that joins over 25 Federal agencies to address our Nation’s waterways, ports and intermodal connections. Working with senior political, military and civilian leaders, Ms. Brohl directs development of interagency policy coordination related to Federal infrastructure investment; system performance measures; navigation technology integration and coordination; and system resilience.

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 since she was six years old. In 2008, Danni graduated from the University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine & Atmospheric Science with a B.S. in Marine Science/Biology.

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 host Arica Sears and her guest Bartomeu Deya Canals as they discuss his family’s historic olive grove in Soller and their dedication to keeping traditions alive. His impressive background as the former Director of the Tourism Mallorca Board as well as his current role of economist and heritage consultant provide just the insight we need to better understand working with stakeholders to balance the tourism economy and community traditions. Only on ASPN.

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 Branch Oceanographic Institute.  He currently serves on the Governor's Blue-Green Algae Task Force, As the state faces a warmer and wetter future,  that many believe conditions will worsen and blooms and their impacts will be worse.  And, there are no sick or easy answers. James walks us through the science, the risks, and how to understand our changing coastal waters. Great show only on ASPN!

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 all the way up the food web: starting with microscopic plankton and ending with our beloved Orca whales. Learn more about what's happening in our changing waters as temperatures rise and fisheries face abrupt disruptions -- including the Chinook salmon that southern resident killer whales rely on.

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 preparedness, with a focus on future flooding and sea level rise. This would have meant significant changes to how coastal projects are planned and/or funded, but it was revoked by the Trump administration before it could be implemented. However, the FFRMS was reinstated by the Biden Administration on May 20th as part of its Executive Order on Climate Related Financial Risk, with direction to federal agencies to continue implementing it using the previously developed guidelines. This podcast explains what the FFRMS does, why it’s important to coastal managers, and what we might expect now from federal agencies that basically pressed pause for 4 years in implementing the policy.

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 on a tour of the NERRS System-wide Monitoring Program (SWMP)—the only national network to integrate the needs of coastal management with standardized, site-based monitoring. This capacity for long-term monitoring across a national system allows Reserves to track early warning signals and inform proactive strategies for climate change adaptation and other coastal resource management priorities.

On this jam-packed show, Peter Ravella and Tyler Buckingham are joined by Brad Warren, host of ASPN's Changing Waters podcast and Executive Director of the National Fisheries Conservation Center, to discuss three fascinating topics on the American Shoreline. First, they take up the water crisis on the Klamath River, going into the history of how the river was managed over the past 100 years, and how tribes, fishermen, and farmers are all "in the same boat" as climate change impacts the river's flow. Then, they head north to Washington to discuss the new cap-and-trade climate legislation just signed into law. Might this be a prototype to be adopted nationally? And finally, they discuss the state of fishery community culture at this moment on the American shoreline, and consider how communities that rely on fisheries will adapt to changing seas. Its a great show, only on ASPN!

On this rebroadcast of the Ship to Shore podcast from May 2019, host Robert Frump is joined by Gilbert M. Gaul to discuss his (then) new book, The Geography of Risk, Epic Storms, Rising Seas, and the Cost of America's Coasts.  Gaul reveals what he characterizes as the confounding array of federal subsidies, tax breaks, low-interest loans, grants, and government flood insurance that shift the risk of life at the beach from private investors to public taxpayers, radically distorting common notions of risk. Gaul argues that these federal incentives have resulted in one of the worst planning failures in American history, and the costs to taxpayers are reaching unsustainable levels.

Gaul twice won the Pulitzer Prize and has been short-listed for the Pulitzer four other times. For more than thirty-five years, he worked as an investigative journalist for The Washington Post, the Philadelphia Inquirer, and other newspapers. He is the author of three previous books and lives in New Jersey.

Join Jenna on this episode of the Sea Change Podcast as she welcomes back her pal and friend of the network, Willis Brown. Some of you may remember Willis from the Surf. Sail. Seafood audio adventure highlighting his summer sailing journey along the coast of Maine with friends Spike Smigelski and Ben Hayden as they survived on the water, learning from locals about sustainable seafood and regenerative farming along the way, all while catching waves in Vacationland's finest surfing havens. During this conversation, Jenna catches up with Willis to learn more about what he's been up to since returning to shore and Seagreen Sustainables, a kelp coffee alternative company born from ocean exploration and in pursuit of a sustainable future.

In this month's episode of the American Blue Economy Podcast, we explore the Marine Transportation System (MTS) and how to make it more sustainable, productive, and efficient. Our guests include Coast Guard Rear Admiral Richard Timme, Chair of the Coordinating Board for the US Committee on the MTS, Helen Brohl who is the Executive Director of that committee, Cary Davis of the American Association of Port Authorities, and Julie Thomas of the Southern California Coastal and Ocean Observing System. We'll talk technology, shipping, ports, charts, and the weather and ocean information that ships depend upon to safely sustain the free flow of maritime commerce. We'll begin with an assessment of the grounding of the M/V Evergiven in the Suez Canal in March and how the event highlighted that marine transportation is the lifeblood of the American Blue Economy.

This week, host Peter Ravella and Tyler Buckingham head out to the West Coast to look at coastal management in the Golden State. Joining the show is Dr. Charles Lester, the director of the Ocean and Coastal Policy Center in the Marine Science Institute at UC Santa Barbara. Dr. Lester previously worked for the State of California and the California Coastal Commission for twenty years, including serving as the agency’s fourth executive director from 2011 to 2016. Charles is an expert in integrated coastal management and California coastal law and policy. He has extensive experience in California, including managing or directing hundreds of coastal planning and regulatory projects for the Coastal Commission. In 2015, he led the agency's completion of California's first comprehensive land use guidance for addressing sea level rise and coastal protection on the outer coast (Sea Level Rise—Adopted Policy Guidance). Charles speaks regularly on coastal management, adaptation and resilience, including recently as part of a Congressional briefing on “west coast resilience” (Charles Lester at EESI).

On this special rebroadcast of the Catch Curve, host Robert Jones sits down with legendary outdoor writer Shannon Tompkins to discuss the environmental, political, and policy changes he has observed over his 40-year career with the Houston Chronicle. Tompkins is a past president of the Texas Outdoor Writers Association and his reporting has won national and state awards to include the Sierra Club’s Lone Star Environmental Reporting Award, multiple Excellence in Craft awards from the Texas Outdoor Writers Association and the Outdoor Writers Association of America, and an award from the Texas bureau of The Associated Press.

Are the oceans being emptied out by overfishing or are fish stocks recovering thanks to recent efforts to strengthen the sustainability of harvests? And who gets to decide? On this episode, Suzanne ludicello, a founding board member of the National Fisheries Conservation Center, talks with Brad Warren about a tool she co-developed with a team at the leading marine resource consultancy MRAG Americas. It is designed to enable nations and fisheries (and others) to rigorously gauge their own performance in governing fisheries. Commissioned by the Walton Family Foundation, the Fisheries Governance Tool (FGT) “puts power in the hands of managing agencies, environmental organizations, funders/investors, and other key stakeholders,” according to the MRAG team. Iudicello offers an inside story about why this tool seeks to enable people close to the resource to  set their own goals and judge their own progress.  Learn about this innovativeness approach to fisheries assessment.  Only on ASPN!

Welcome to Episode 1 of the ASBPA Students and New Professionals (SNP) Chapter podcast: Going Coastal! This podcast is for all things coastal for current and emerging coastal professionals across the nation. In this pilot episode, the three co-hosts of the podcast - Heather Wade, Jon Miller, and Marissa Torres - will introduce you to the podcast as a whole, what SNP and Going Coastal is all about, who your hosts are as professionals and as people, and what you can expect from us in the future. Tune in and enjoy!

Check out ASBPA at https://asbpa.org/ to learn more about the organization as a whole, all of its corresponding chapters, and other offerings or follow the SNP group on Facebook.

Heather Wade Social: @coastalplanner on Twitter, @coastal.planner on Instagram

Jon Miller Social: @StevensCoastal on Instagram & Twitter

This week on Delta Dispatches, Jacques brings back our friends from the Coalition to Restore Coastal Louisiana James Karst, director of communications and marketing, and Emily Vuxton, policy director. James talks about the upcoming State of the Coast conference (registration open now!) and Emily talks about things to keep an eye on in this year’s Louisiana state legislative session including the 2021 Coastal Annual Plan.

This episode of the Sea Change Podcast features activism in action! Join Jenna as she checks in with Diane Wilson, a 4th-generation shrimper, activist, and author who is currently on a hunger strike to pressure the Biden Administration to stop the dredging of the mercury-contaminated Matagorda Ship Channel on Texas' Gulf Coast. Diane fears, and the Army Corps of Engineers acknowledges, that mercury contamination from the nearby Alcoa Superfund site could be unearthed and devastate fisheries that local communities are working to restore and revitalize. Tune in to this episode to learn from Diane's 30+ years of activism experience. Trust us, you don't want to miss this one.

On this special rebroadcast of the American Shoreline Podcast from March 2019, Peter Ravella and Tyler Buckingham revisit their first show with Dr. Joseph G. Kunkel. 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 "mass migrations" of sea life seeking preferred water temperatures. Lobsters are no exception, and scientists, like Joe, are trying to understand how climate changes are impacting the fishery and if policy changes might be able to preserve the fishery for future generations. One primary concern is Lobster Shell Disease. On this show Dr. Kunkel deep dives on the issues facing the American Lobster, a multi-billion dollar industry facing an uncertain future. 

This month's episode of The Ocean Decade Show is all about baseline data! Dr. Salvatore Aricò from the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission helps us dive into the Global Ocean Science Report 2020 (GOSR2020). Based on data collected from around the world and co-authored by over 60 ocean science and sustainable development experts, GOSR2020 offers a holistic, global record of how, where and by whom ocean science is conducted. In order to know how the Ocean Decade makes a difference and if we've reached our goals, we have to know where we are today in terms of ocean science data, infrastructure, research, and funding. To read the report and learn more, visit https://en.unesco.org/gosr.

Everyone in Washington is talking infrastructure, but where is the talk about water? On the next episode of the WaterLog podcast, Howard and Dan wade through how Congress and the new Administration are planning to take on water and coastal priorities in the nation’s infrastructure initiative. The Senate has decided it will bring back earmarks alongside the House, which has already closed it’s deadline for earmark requests. Meanwhile, Republicans are scrambling to find out how they will counter Democrats’ legislative tactics. Finally, Howard & Dan talk about the new nominee for the Assistant Secretary of the Army for Civil Works, the Administration official in charge for the Corps of Engineers.

This week, Peter Ravella and Tyler Buckingham have the pleasure of welcoming the hosts of the newest shows to the American Shoreline Podcast Network:  "Going Coastal" and "Rising Sea Voices."  Co-hosted by Marissa Torres, Heather Wade, and Dr. Jon Miller, the Going Coastal podcast is the official pod of the American Shore and Beach Preservation Association's Student and New Professional Chapter. In this episode, we get to know these three great co-hosts and learn what Going Coastal will be all about. 

We also thrilled to introduce the ASPN community to Dr. Felicia Olmeta-Schult, host of the new "Rising Sea Voices" podcast.  Felicia is Resiliency Fellow with the Oregon Sea Grant program.  Felicia's show will focus on the stories, viewpoints, and coastal research of minority and under-represented coastal professionals, bringing an essential perspective of the American shoreline to our listeners. Stay tuned for these two great new podcasts coming soon to ASPN!

On this special rerun, late 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!

Individuals have been drawn to the coastline for centuries, evident by the number of thriving metropolitan cities located adjacent to waterfronts all over the world. In the United States, 40% of the population resides near the water. Not to mention, the blue economy has grown at a rate that is faster than the overall GDP for the country, as it has proven to be a primary driver of jobs, innovation and economic growth.  Our strong desire to be near the water might be simple to see, but quantifying this importance is no easy task. The Blue economy is a vast network with land, people, places, real estate, tourism, ports, fishing, shipping, maintenance, military- all dependent on this vital resource and interconnected. On this show, we are going to explore the Blue Economies of two Atlantic coastal states -- Rhode Island and South Carolina.  Our guests are going to guide us through the process their coastal states have undertaken to access valuable information and not only assess the current activities on their coastline, but also plan for the future of the working waterfront. An economist will also introduce us to a new and innovative strategy aimed at valuing non-market features on the waterfront such as wetlands, sand dunes, open space, oyster reefs and other types of mariculture.

This week on Delta Dispatches we’re talking about the inspirational new exhibit at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art which features works from John Taylor, storyteller, environmentalist, self-taught artist and life-long resident of New Orleans’ Lower 9th Ward. Here to talk about the exhibit is Mikhayla Harrell, the Museum Educator and Teen Intern Coordinator at the Ogden Museum and Amanda Moore Deputy Director, Gulf Program for the National Wildlife Federation. This exhibition features a variety of works by Taylor, including eight walking sticks carved from wood found along the banks of the Mississippi River and eight photographs of the Bayou Bienvenue Wetland Triangle as well as historical information about Louisiana wetland loss, and provides a number of ways people can get involved with restoration efforts.

This episode, Peter Ravella and Tyler Buckingham welcome Russ Boudreau (Principal, Coastal Fronteers) to the show to discuss the intricacies of coastal engineering through the lens of a project in Maui, Hawaii concerning the Wailuku-Kahului Wastewater Reclamation Facility, the island's primary wastewater treatment plant. Located on the island's coast (think gravity), the facility was identified to be vulnerable to earthquakes, tsunamis, winter waves, flooding, and inevitable sea level rise due to its low-lying beachfront location on the world-renowned high-wind and big-surf North Shore. Russ talks us through how this problem was tackled from an engineering perspective, resulting in an armored living shoreline solution that has shown to be effective.

On this special rebroadcast episode of Changing Waters, the late, great Thane Tienson sits down with Randy Fisher, Executive Director of the Pacific States Marine Fisheries Commission (PSMFC). Established in 1947 by consent of Congress, PSMFC is an interstate compact agency that helps resource agencies and the fishing industry sustainably manage the valuable Pacific Ocean fisheries in California, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and Alaska.