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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: 23 May 2025 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 what we can do to keep them […]

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Coastal Conversations Radio Program: Acadia Summits

Coastal Conversations Show: 25 April 2025 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 bring vegetation back. The effort, called Save Our […]

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Coastal Conversations Radio Program: Ferrying Frogs & Measuring Mice

Coastal Conversations Show: 28 March 2025 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 dead of night and trapping small mammals in […]

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Coastal Conversations Radio Program: Historical Aerial Photography

Coastal Conversations Show: 28 February 2025 Guest Hosta: 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 Island. For years, thousands of aerial photographs have […]

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

Coastal Conversations Show: 24 January 2025 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 took place decades ago in Acadia National Park. […]

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: 27 December 2024 Host: Galen Koch, Island Institute + College of the Atlantic 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 Crescent Beach, is, at high tide, just wide enough to […]

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

Coastal Conversations Show: November 22, 2024 Host: Galen Koch, College of the Atlantic and First Coast 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 island and a public school system, deep family ties, a […]

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Coastal Conversations: The River Herring Network

Coastal Conversations Show: October 25, 2024 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 streams and ponds where they hatched to reproduce. […]

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Coastal Conversations Radio Program: Marine Debris

Coastal Conversations Show: September 27, 2024 Host: Keri Kaczor, Maine Sea Grant Everyone can make a difference to address the issue of marine debris (or trash) that enters our oceans! Keri Kaczor of Maine Sea Grant hosts a conversation with members of a Community Action Coalition who’ve come together to help tackle marine debris pollution […]

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