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The full coastal conversation, many angles wide.
American Shoreline Podcast Network is a wide coastal audio network, moving between engineering, ecology, maritime history, literature, poetry, and policy. Its recent episodes range from under-ice Great Lakes research to Chicago River history, bioluminescence, nature-based shorelines, and ocean-floor carbon.
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American Shoreline Podcast Network functions as a broad coastal listening hub rather than a single-format podcast. Its recent episodes show a network built around oceans, Great Lakes, inland seas, shorelines, coastal engineering, environmental science, literature, and maritime memory. One thread follows blue technology and infrastructure, with Wave Makers bringing ecological engineering, validated biodiversity claims, and coastal construction into the same conversation. Another thread stays close to institutional science, where the American Blue Economy Podcast discusses under-ice observations, ecological monitoring, oil spill monitoring, and Great Lakes winter conditions. North Coast Chronicles works differently. It turns toward Great Lakes history, folklore, Chicago waterways, holiday maritime traditions, and the texture of regional stories. Sea Change opens a more artistic lane through seasonal poetry tied to nature and the shore. Shorewords! connects coastal writing with authors and leaders, including a conversation around Below the Edge of Darkness and bioluminescence. Going Coastal brings students and new professionals into coastal engineering and science conversations, including nature-based features, living shorelines, and urban shoreline design. The American Shoreline podcast itself can get technical fast, as in its discussion of mud, sediment, contaminants, carbon sinks, canyons, and seafloor composition. The network’s strength is that these subjects sit near one another. Policy, science, engineering, oral history, poetry, and coastal books are treated as different ways of understanding the same edge between land and water. The pacing changes by series. Some episodes carry the polished frame of a professional interview show, while others feel looser, warmer, and more reflective. The episodes show named hosts and co-hosts, but the larger identity belongs to the network’s coastal range. It is not only about beaches or storms. It is about infrastructure below the surface, organisms in deep water, public health history, working waterfronts, Great Lakes culture, and the language people use for changing shorelines. The best moments come when a technical subject becomes tangible: mud as a carbon carrier, winter ice as missing data, or raised buildings as visible evidence of a city remaking its drainage. The literary episodes broaden that frame instead of interrupting it. They show the coast as a place of imagination as well as management. That mix gives the network a distinctive editorial shape. It makes the shoreline feel like a shared field of science, labor, history, art, and consequence.
Made for: Suits a listener who wants coastal issues treated across science, history, engineering, literature, and culture. It is especially useful for someone who likes expert conversation but also wants place, story, and language in the mix.
What sets it apart: The network stands apart by placing multiple coastal series under one identity, so ecological engineering, Great Lakes folklore, solstice poetry, blue economy policy, and seafloor carbon can sit side by side. Its range is broader than a single-topic science or history podcast.
ASPN is the platform for top minds in the coastal and ocean space. Whether your interest is coastal business, policy, science, engineering or advocacy, with ASPN you'll be better prepared, better informed, and better equipped to adapt and thrive. No other platform brings together so many cross-sectional coastal experts. We believe understanding the spectrum of coastal issues and interests is the key to truly thriving on the American shoreline. Hear the complete coastal conversation on the American Shoreline Podcast Network. ASPN is a service of Coastal News Today.
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A grounded final Wavemakers conversation on coastal infrastructure, marine life, and evidence-led climate claims.
Coastal infrastructure becomes a credibility test in this final Wavemakers episode, as Tamara Khan speaks with Ido Sella about what it takes for environmental claims to hold up under measurement.
A Great Lakes episode on winter ice, missing data, and what cold-season science can reveal about the next season.
Winter on the Great Lakes becomes a practical science problem in this American Blue Economy Podcast episode, as Admiral Tim Gallaudet leads a discussion of ice observations, ecological monitoring, and oil-spill monitoring.
Chicago's river reversal emerges through raised buildings, buried streets, and sewage pressing against the city's water supply.
Chicago's reversed river comes through as a blunt civic fix to a blunt civic problem: a fast-growing city had lifted streets and buildings while sewage still threatened the lake that supplied its drinking water.
A winter solstice poetry gathering turns seasonal darkness into a shared ritual of listening.
The winter solstice takes shape as a communal art piece in this Sea Change episode, with Jenna Valente hosting a seasonal poetry celebration alongside Portland Poets System and poets beyond Portland.
A sturdy Great Lakes look at the Rouse Simmons and Chicago's Christmas tree lore.
Chicago's Christmas tree ships carry more than seasonal glow, and North Coast Chronicles treats that history with a steady sense of place. The episode follows the Rouse Simmons's last voyage in November 1912, with August Schooneman and Captain Nelson at the center, while also…
Books, life, and the tender difficult middle.
Host Leslie Ewing interviews author Rosanna Shaw about her book 'California Against the Sea' and her interest in coastal issues.
Wavemakers ends with Tamara Khan interviewing Ido Sella about Econcrete, a company that designs piers, ports, seawalls, and breakwaters to support biodiversity.
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North Coast Chronicles' "The Real History Behind Reversing the Chicago River" centers on Dick Lanyon, a former Metropolitan Water Reclamation District executive who spent 48 years on Chicago's water systems and wrote books including Building the Canal to Save Chicago and Draining Chicago.
Jenna Valente hosts a winter-solstice poetry special for the Sea Change Podcast with Portland Poets System and contributors from Portland, Maine, Somerville, Massachusetts, and elsewhere.
North Coast Chronicles on the American Shoreline Podcast Network follows Helen Burrell, Dr.
Leslie Ewing interviews marine biologist Edith Witter about Below the Edge of Darkness, a book combining bioluminescence science with memories from her career at sea.
Going Coastal co-hosts John Miller, Deb Fernandez, and Marissa Torres review the podcast's third year, including Deb's April 2023 arrival and an earthquake that interrupted producer Tyler's recording session.
The American Shoreline Podcast examines how carbon moves into seafloor sediments in the Greater Farallones and Cordell Bank National Marine Sanctuaries.
Casey Darling Niffen, an environmental advocate with the Florida Oceanographic Society, describes how South Florida’s waterways shaped her marine biology and conservation work.
Paul Scholz, NOAA’s deputy assistant administrator for the National Ocean Service, explains why its 45-page strategic plan is intended as an operational guidepost rather than a shelf document.
Peter Ravella and Tyler Buckingham review their 2023 work, including Tyler’s nine months in business development at Blue Robotics and Ravella’s launch of the Coastal Zone Foundation.
Taylor Gales interviews deep-sea explorer and marine biologist Cherisse Du Preez from the RV Falkor 2 during a seafloor-mapping expedition near hydrothermal vents at the eastern Galápagos spreading center.
Admiral Tim Galladet hosts Ian Kanga Karnes, Neeraja Havalighi, and Charlie Fox on surfing’s links to conservation, tourism, forecasting, and the American blue economy.
North Coast Chronicles host Helen Prohl interviews National Weather Service meteorologist Tom Holquist about the November 10, 1975 storm that sank the SS Edmund Fitzgerald in eastern Lake Superior.
Derek Brockbank interviews Camille Crane, who oversees FEMA's Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities program, about shifting disaster policy toward pre-disaster mitigation.
Cheyenne Twilley and Narayan Kumar discuss receiving ASBPA student awards while developing careers in coastal policy and coastal engineering.
All Swell hosts Genevieve Gary and Kira Hage summarize a Coastal Society forum at UNC Wilmington on North Carolina’s natural and community resilience, PFAS, and marine spatial planning.
Peter Rivella and Tyler Buckingham examine NOAA and Pew Charitable Trust data showing 96 billion-dollar disasters costing $546 billion from 1983–2002 versus 244 costing nearly $2 trillion from 2003–2022.
Rosanna Shaw, an environment reporter for the Los Angeles Times, explains how repeated reporting across California’s more than 1,200-mile coastline became California Against the Sea.
WaveMakers host Tamara Kahn interviews Danielle Southcott, founder of Veer Group, about building an ocean-crossing clean container ship.
Jenna Valente interviews Penn State graduate Isabella Briseño-Alalfi about ocean advocacy, community building, and the Voices of a Healthy Ocean StoryMap project.
The American Shoreline Podcast hosts Peter Ravella and Tyler Buckingham interview Coast Guard veteran Peter Dineen about maritime service, environmental science, and coastal advocacy.
The hosts discuss the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management's role in offshore wind energy leasing on the outer continental shelf.
An interview with a marine science postdoc about coastal and ocean research, including a land acknowledgement.