Coastal Conversations

Coastal Conversations Radio Program: Penobscot Watershed

Coastal Conversations show: March 31, 2016 (rescheduled from March 25 due to snow cancellation) WERU 89.9 in Blue Hill and 99.9 in Bangor Host: Natalie Springuel, Maine Sea Grant Listen to the show on WERU archives The Penobscot watershed drains nearly one third of the state of Maine. From the headlands near Quebec all the […]

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Coastal Conversations Radio Program: Experience Maritime Maine

Coastal Conversations show: February 26, 2016 WERU 89.9 in Blue Hill and 99.9 in Bangor Host: Natalie Springuel, Maine Sea Grant Listen to the show on WERU archives What do the words Maritime Heritage mean to you? Do these words conjure windjammers and wooden boats, or lighthouses and whales? Do you think: island communities, shell middens, or working waterfronts? […]

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Coastal Conversations Radio Program: Where Have All the Shrimp Gone?

Coastal Conversations show: January 22, 2016 WERU 89.9 in Blue Hill and 99.9 in Bangor Host: Natalie Springuel, Maine Sea Grant Listen to the show on WERU archives This winter, you won’t find Northern Shrimp, those delectable, tiny, pinkish-grey crustaceans, in your grocery store’s seafood section or at fish trucks on the side of the […]

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Coastal Conversations Radio Program: Coastal Conversations in Acadia

Two-thousand sixteen is the 100th anniversary of Acadia National Park and America’s National Park System. In honor of this centennial, the University of Maine Sea Grant Program and WERU-FM, both official Centennial Partners, present an occasional series based on the monthly public affairs program, Coastal Conversations. The ocean surrounds Acadia National Park, which includes 47,000 […]

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Coastal Conversations Radio Program: Holiday Seafood Traditions

Coastal Conversations show: December 25, 2015 WERU 89.9 in Blue Hill and 99.9 in Bangor Host: Natalie Springuel, Maine Sea Grant Listen to the show on WERU archives Humans have long incorporated food with celebration. Ancestors of the native Wabanaki people observed seasonal changes like the arrival of winter and the solstice, and celebrated in their own […]

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Coastal Conversations Radio Program: Maine Scallops, What Makes Them So Great?

Coastal Conversations show: November 27, 2015 WERU 89.9 in Blue Hill and 99.9 in Bangor Host: Natalie Springuel, Maine Sea Grant Listen to the show on WERU archives Listen to Maine Scallops show (podcast) The end of November isn’t just about turkey, it’s about Maine scallops! Fishermen will start harvesting scallops on December 1st this […]

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Coastal Conversations Radio Program: Marine Debris

Coastal Conversations show: October 09, 2015 WERU 89.9 in Blue Hill and 99.9 in Bangor Host: Natalie Springuel, Maine Sea Grant Listen to the show on WERU archives Have you heard about that plastic trash gyre floating around in the Pacific Ocean? It is two times the size of Texas. But what about our waters here […]

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Coastal Conversations Radio Program: Phenology and Citizen Science on the Coast

Coastal Conversations show: September 25, 2015 WERU 89.9 in Blue Hill and 99.9 in Bangor Host: Natalie Springuel, Maine Sea Grant Listen to the show on WERU archives Using their backyards as laboratories, participants in the Signs of the Seasons program help scientists document the local effects of global climate change. Hundreds are trained to observe […]

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