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Coastal Conversations Radio Program: Lobster in a changing fishery

Coastal Conversations show: August 22, 2025WERU 89.9 in Blue Hill and 99.9 in Bangor Host This show was produced by Tiegan Paulson, student at College of the Atlantic This episode In recent years there have been some concerns that lobstering was headed for a string of seasons that produced lower landings, raising questions about the […]

Two men in work boots sort fish on a dock, with fishing boats tied alongside. One man is in rubber overalls, the other in jeans and a T-shirt. The dock is covered in fish, most about two feet in length. All fish appear dead.

Coastal Conversations Radio Program: In Pursuit of Cod

This month we will take a look at why Europeans came to New England, the adaptations their ancestors made to keep fishing, and how Maine ultimately lost the cod fishery

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Coastal Conversations Radio Program: Bird Songs, Part One

Coastal Conversations show: May 2025WERU 89.9 in Blue Hill and 99.9 in Bangor Hosts Catherine Devine, ‘23 Cathy and Jim Gero Acadia Early Career Fellow in Science Communication, Schoodic Institute This Episode In this episode of Coastal Conversations, we feature a Schoodic Institute Sea to Trees podcast about the birds in Acadia, their songs, and […]

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Coastal Conversations Radio Program: Acadia Summits

Coastal Conversations show: April 25, 2025WERU 89.9 in Blue Hill and 99.9 in Bangor Hosts Catherine Devine, Cathy and Jim Gero Acadia Early Career Fellow in Science Communication, Schoodic Institute This Episode In this episode of Schoodic Institute’s Sea to Trees podcast we discuss the degradation occurring on Acadia’s summits, and a community-driven effort to […]

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Coastal Conversations Radio Program: Ferrying Frogs & Measuring Mice

Coastal Conversations show: March 28, 2025WERU 89.9 in Blue Hill and 99.9 in Bangor Guest Host Trevor Grandin, Cathy and Jim Gero Acadia Early Career Fellow in Science Communication, Schoodic Institute This Episode In this episode of Coastal Conversations, we feature Schoodic Institute’s podcast, Sea to Trees. We’re searching Acadia’s roads for amphibians in the […]

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Coastal Conversations Radio Program: Historical Aerial Photography

Coastal Conversations show: February 28, 2025WERU 89.9 in Blue Hill and 99.9 in Bangor Guest Hosts Trevor Grandin, Cathy and Jim Gero Acadia Early Career Fellow in Science Communication, Schoodic Institute This Episode In this episode of Coastal Conversations, we feature Schoodic Institute’s podcast, Sea to Trees, and we’re taking twentieth-century flights over Mount Desert […]

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Coastal Conversations Radio Program: How Fame Changed MacArthur’s Warblers

Coastal Conversations show: January 24, 2025WERU 89.9 in Blue Hill and 99.9 in Bangor Guest hosts Trevor Grandin, Cathy and Jim Gero Acadia Early Career Fellow in Science Communication, Schoodic Institute This Episode In this episode of Coastal Conversations, we feature Schoodic Institute’s podcast, Sea to Trees, and revisit a monumental piece of research that […]

A white sign with red lettering in the foreground reads "Commercial Fishermen Only." The background is green grass and benchs by the water.

Coastal Conversations Radio Program: From the Sea Up – Cape Elizabeth

Coastal Conversations show: December 27, 2024WERU 89.9 in Blue Hill and 99.9 in Bangor Host Galen Koch, Island Institute + College of the Atlantic This episode In the town of Cape Elizabeth, in Southern Maine, there’s one last strip of commercial access on the waterfront. This access, situated within Kettle Cove State Park beside neighboring […]

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Coastal Conversations Radio Program: From the Sea Up: Deer Isle and Stonington

Coastal Conversations show: November 22, 2024WERU 89.9 in Blue Hill and 99.9 in Bangor Host Galen Koch, College of the Atlantic and First Coast This episode This program features an episode of Island Institute’s podcast, From the Sea Up. Nestled within an archipelago in Penobscot Bay, the towns of Stonington and Deer Isle share an […]

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Coastal Conversations: The River Herring Network

Coastal Conversations show: October 25, 2025WERU 89.9 in Blue Hill and 99.9 in Bangor Host Natalie Springuel, Maine Sea Grant This Episode Every spring streams, rivers, and ponds around Maine shimmer with thousands of silver fish. These little fish, called river herring or alewives, spend most of their lives offshore but “run” back to the […]

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