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On Introduced, we tell stories about the Great Lakes, introduced species and the people working to protect our waters. The podcast is brought to you by Wisconsin Sea Grant, with support from the Great Lakes Commission.
Giant zebra mussels at an art exhibit are your cue to rethink the usual lake villain story.
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A Wisconsin middle school milfoil project grows into a lasting lake-protection story.
A middle school science project leaves a surprisingly long wake in Introduced. The episode follows Wisconsin students whose work on milfoil helped spark a program focused on protecting the state's lakes, then places that effort in a wider summer culture of boating, warming…
An invasive carp story that turns a waste problem into a thoughtful experiment in creative reuse.
Introduced follows invasive carp from crowded waterways into a more surprising question: what happens when a fish often treated as waste is recast as a possible leather material?
A strange, funny exhibit gives invasive species science a more tactile surface.
Introduced takes a vivid route into aquatic invasive species science, setting its conversation inside a Milwaukee exhibit where a magical kelp forest, pink orbs, and oversized zebra mussels turn a familiar environmental issue into something stranger and more tactile.
A Wisconsin invasive-species story turns a familiar warning into a more careful question about evidence and response.
Starry stonewort gives Introduced a clean path into a larger science question: why do people so often expect a new invasive species to dominate the place it enters?
Steven Novella and a rotating panel dissect weekly science news and debunk pseudoscience claims.
Marie Stewart's seventh-grade science project in Wisconsin became Clean Boats, Clean Waters, a volunteer inspection program that now helps check nearly 150,000 boats a year.
Kimberly Bostad turns buckthorn berries into ink and invasive carp scales into earrings, bags, and fish leather on Introduced episode 24, "When life hands you carp." The idea traces back to Chicago's Field Museum, where an Isaac Mizrahi gown made from pressed bleached salmon skin showed her what a fish-based material could look like.
Introduced episode 23, A new lens, centers on the Milwaukee exhibit Deep Lake Future and its flooded Lake Michigan world built around aquatic invasive species.
Little Muskego Lake becomes the episode's test case for starry stonewort, after Wisconsin managers tried manual removal, diver-assisted suction harvesting, a seven-foot drawdown, and boat-launch education without eradication.
Astrid Hooper-Loften turns a purple-loosestrife control strategy into a four-foot fabric beetle people cannot ignore.
The hosts discuss their personal experiences buying and disposing of invasive aquatic plants for an experiment.
The episode explores the history and impact of salmon introduction in the Great Lakes, starting with the invasive sea lamprey.
This episode explores the world of snails, focusing on introduced species in the Great Lakes and the efforts to manage them.
The episode recounts a legend about rainbow smelt appearing in the Peshtigo River during the Great Depression, introducing the topic of invasive species in the Great Lakes.
The hosts discuss their experiences ordering aquatic invasive plants online and the risks of co-invasions.
This episode explores the threat of invasive Asian carp to the Great Lakes and the electrical barrier designed to stop them.
Two PhD students discuss their research on fish ecology and teaching fish identification in the Great Lakes region.
The episode tells the story of a fisherman who introduced rusty crayfish to a Wisconsin lake, exploring the consequences of invasive species.