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Coastal Conversations Radio Program: Rebuilding Native Oyster Reefs

Coastal Conversations show: August 28, 2026WERU 89.9 in Blue Hill and 99.9 in Bangor Hosts Keegan Claunch, assistant producer and student at College of the Atlantic This Episode Imagine a construction crew that can’t move, takes no lunch break, and still somehow gets the job done. Meet the oyster. Oysters are native to Maine, and throughout […]

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Coastal Conversations Radio Program: Innovations in the Marine Economy – Workforce & Education

Coastal Conversations Coastal Conversations show: July 24, 2026WERU 89.9 in Blue Hill and 99.9 in Bangor Hosts Galen Koch for the Island Institute‘s From The Sea Up Podcast This Episode Maine’s coast is peppered with over 3000 offshore islands. Of that 3000, some are riddled with year round residents, some are uninhabited, and some are hotspots […]

Underwater diving on muddy ocean floor with jagged gravel. A red rock crab backed up against a few pieces of eel grass on the right side. Red macroalgae growing between the eel grass is next to the crab. A thin green blade of macroalgae is on the right side. A blue-green hue covers the whole image as water and depth affects what colors are visible.

Coastal Conversations Radio Program: Dive into Maine’s Changing Marine Ecology, Mid-coast and Portland

Coastal Conversations show: October 24, 2025WERU 89.9 in Blue Hill and 99.9 in Bangor Production Assistant Kristin Zunino, Graduate at College of the Atlantic 2025 This episode Dive down and let’s explore Maine’s changing marine ecology along the Mid-Coast and Portland region with local professional scuba divers. This is Kristin Zunino; graduate of College of […]

Facing the back left side of the boat, two divers are putting on gear for a dive. Extra gear is laid out behind them on a covered rubber hot tub for easy access. A dive flag on the left back corner of the boat is moving in the wind. The safety diver wearing an orange raincoat is next to the flag in front of the divers. Water surrounding the boat is Frenchman Bay and an island coastline.

Coastal Conversation Radio Program: Dive into Maine’s Changing Marine Ecology, Downeast

Coastal Conversations show: September 26, 2025WERU 89.9 in Blue Hill and 99.9 in Bangor Production Assistant Kristin Zunino, Graduate at College of the Atlantic 2025 This episode Dive down and explore Maine’s changing marine ecology along the Downeast coast with local professional scuba divers. This is Kristin Zunino; graduate of College of the Atlantic, a […]

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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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