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Stuart Carlton | Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant

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62: The G.L.O.A.T.
Teach Me About the Great Lakes
07/19/22 • 46 min
Show links:
- Petoskey stone followup:
- Great Lakes News
- Guest host Sandra Svoboda, Great Lakes Now
- https://www.greatlakesnow.org
- https://twitter.com/GreatLakesNow
- https://twitter.com/DetSandra
- https://www.youtube.com/greatlakesnow
- Story 1: https://www.greatlakesnow.org/2022/07/improving-science-literacy-means-changing-science-education/
- Story 2: https://www.greatlakesnow.org/2022/07/great-lakes-residents-advisories-eating-fish/
- Story 3: https://www.greatlakesnow.org/2022/07/detroit-toronto-time-50-greatest-places/
- The Dread Pirate Roberts
- Wikipedia: SS Edmund Fitzgerald
- Northern Waters Smokehaus

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58: Look at What the Algae Are Doing
Teach Me About the Great Lakes
05/31/22 • 24 min

31: Bathed in Their Own Liquidy, Sugary Feces
Teach Me About the Great Lakes
05/03/21 • 30 min
Links:
Jessica Ware Lab: Homepage | Twitter | Instagram
EPA: Physical Features of the Great Lakes (including their depth)
Jessica Ware’s page at the American Museum of Natural Museum
Cicadas: Missouri Botanical Garden
US Forest Service Cicada brood map
Whoa a video of a female cicada ovipositing
Dr. Chris Simon’s piece on cicadas and climate change
Central New Jersey Doesn’t Exist, But Don’t Tell Central Jerseyans That
Credits:
Host & Executive Producer: Stuart Carlton
Cohost: Irene Miles
Producers: Hope Charters, Carolyn Foley, Megan Gunn, & Irene Miles
Associate Producer: Ethan Chitty
Edited by: Quinn Rose
Podcast art by: Joel Davenport
Music by: Stuart Carlton

36: Change is Inevitable
Teach Me About the Great Lakes
07/19/21 • 34 min
Today's guest:
Vidya Balasubramanyam
Coastal Hazards Specialist
Prairie Research Institute/Illinois Coastal Management Program
Follow Vidya on Twitter!
Show links:
TMATGL 20: Humans Control Inches
Illinois Coastal Management Program
Prairie Research Institute
Illinois Beach State Park Beach-Ridge Project
Shifting Sands — Using Marinas to Drive Ecosystem Health
Interesting review articles on adaptation pathways
The Garden of Forking Paths
Managed retreat and the case for relocating entire cities (fastcompany.com)
ISGS Website https://isgs.illinois.edu/node/34440
PRI social media https://prairie.illinois.edu/illinois-issues/coastal-management-program/
Dan Egan: A Battle Between a Great City and a Great Lake
Credits:
Host & Executive Producer: Stuart Carlton
Cohost: Carolyn Foley
Producers: Hope Charters, Carolyn Foley, Megan Gunn, & Irene Miles
Associate Producer: Ethan Chitty
Edited by: Quinn Rose
Podcast art by: Joel Davenport
Music by: Stuart Carlton

35: Most Weather Weenies Will Probably Remember (re-air, new title)
Teach Me About the Great Lakes
07/05/21 • 48 min
Guest: Meg Dodson, National Weather ServiceDerecho
- NWS WFO LOT’s Page: https://www.weather.gov/lot/2020aug10
- NWS WFO IWX’s Page: https://www.weather.gov/iwx/Derecho_20200810
- NWS WFO DVN’s Page: https://www.weather.gov/dvn/summary_081020
- SPC Derecho: Facts Page here
- Derecho Climatology https://www.weather.gov/jetstream/derecho_climo
- Notable Derecho Lists:
- Hurricane Scale: The Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale
- Enhanced Fujita Scale: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enhanced_Fujita_scale
Water Safety
- NWS Beach Hazards Page (Forecasts, statements): www.weather.gov/greatlakes/beachhazards
- NWS Great Lakes Current-Incident Database: https://www.weather.gov/iwx/beach_season_summaries
- Michigan Sea Grant: Dangerous currents: www.dangerouscurrents.org
- Great Lakes Water Safety Consortium: http://greatlakeswatersafety.org/
- Great Lakes Waves and Water Safety Lesson : Center for Great Lakes Literacy
- Southern Lake Michigan Water Safety Taskforce
Great Lakes Surf Rescue Project: www.glsrp.org/statistics/
Tom Coomes (@TomCoomes) on Twitter
Oh Sweetness!! Bakery & Cafe, LLC - Bakery - Leesburg, IN
Credits:
Host & Executive Producer: Stuart Carlton
Co-host: Hope Charters
Producers: Hope Charters, Carolyn Foley, Megan Gunn, & Irene Miles
Associate Producer: Ethan Chitty
Music by: Stuart Carlton

34: A Million Little Triangles
Teach Me About the Great Lakes
06/14/21 • 33 min
Links
- NOAA Great Lakes Environmental Research Lab
- Wikipedia: Enbridge Line 5
- NOAA Lake Michigan current forecasts
- NOAA Article: Drifting Buoys Track Water Currents in the Great Lakes Straits of Mackinac
- The Awesome Power of a Fully Operational Mothership
- Whatever Happened To Orbitz, aka Lava Lamp Juice?
- OK Soda
- Audio from OK Soda’s 1-800-I-Feel-OK hotline
- Zingerman’s Deli
- Old Town Tavern
Credits:
Host & Executive Producer: Stuart Carlton
Cohost: Carolyn Foley
Producers: Hope Charters, Carolyn Foley, Megan Gunn, & Irene Miles
Associate Producer: Ethan Chitty
Edited by: Quinn Rose
Podcast art by: Joel Davenport
Music by: Stuart Carlton

37: Seventy Scouts in an Enclosed Tube
Teach Me About the Great Lakes
08/02/21 • 40 min
Please take a second to nominate some great work for the Lakies! Click here or visit http://bitly.com/lakies2021 .
Links:
An interesting article on using photogrammetry to create an immersive 3D model of a shipwreck
https://www.teachmeaboutthegreatlakes.com/14
Wikipedia: Gado class submarines
USS Cobia pae at WisconsinMaritime.org
National Parks Service page on the Abandoned Shipwreck Act of 1987
Bakery on State
Titus Seilheimer is a fun Twitter follow!
Credits:
Host & Executive Producer: Stuart Carlton
Co-host: Carolyn Foley
Producers: Hope Charters, Carolyn Foley, Megan Gunn, & Irene Miles
Associate Producer: Ethan Chitty
Edited by: Quinn Rose
Podcast art by: Joel Davenport
Music by: Stuart Carlton

30: No, They're on the Phone
Teach Me About the Great Lakes
04/20/21 • 29 min
Full show notes:
EPA's Great Lakes National Program Office: homepage | Twitter feed
RV Lake Guardian
The Guardian's Twitter feed
The R/V Lake Guardian's Yearly Survey Activities
Track the Lake Guardian on MarineTraffic.net
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mysida
Great Lakes Restoration Initiative
1972 Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement
USGS: What are zebra mussels and why should we care about them?
Tiktok TikTok is making sea shanties big again
Interesting article: Zebra Mussels’ Takeover of the Great Lakes
Lake Michigan Health: A Deeper Dive (cool story map!)
Credits:
Host & Executive Producer: Stuart Carlton
Cohost: Irene Miles
Producers: Hope Charters, Carolyn Foley, Megan Gunn, & Irene Miles
Associate Producer: Ethan Chitty
Edited by: Quinn Rose

28: Bald Eagle as a Proxy
Teach Me About the Great Lakes
03/15/21 • 28 min
One more time with the Teach Me About the Great Lakes Hotline: 765-496-IISG (that's 4474)
Bill’s paper on PDBEs in Bald Eagle nestlings
EPA: Basics of green chemistry
Here’s the TMATGL episode on diving shipwrecks...you should listen! And dive!
The Sufjan Stevens reference Carolyn made that Stuart missed

17: Flip, Float, and Follow
Teach Me About the Great Lakes
09/07/20 • 47 min
Guest: Meg Dodson, National Weather ServiceDerecho
- NWS WFO LOT’s Page: https://www.weather.gov/lot/2020aug10
- NWS WFO IWX’s Page: https://www.weather.gov/iwx/Derecho_20200810
- NWS WFO DVN’s Page: https://www.weather.gov/dvn/summary_081020
- SPC Derecho: Facts Page here
- Derecho Climatology https://www.weather.gov/jetstream/derecho_climo
- Notable Derecho Lists:
- Hurricane Scale: The Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale
- Enhanced Fujita Scale: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enhanced_Fujita_scale
Water Safety
- NWS Beach Hazards Page (Forecasts, statements): www.weather.gov/greatlakes/beachhazards
- NWS Great Lakes Current-Incident Database: https://www.weather.gov/iwx/beach_season_summaries
- Michigan Sea Grant: Dangerous currents: www.dangerouscurrents.org
- Great Lakes Water Safety Consortium: http://greatlakeswatersafety.org/
- Great Lakes Waves and Water Safety Lesson : Center for Great Lakes Literacy
- Southern Lake Michigan Water Safety Taskforce
Great Lakes Surf Rescue Project: www.glsrp.org/statistics/
Tom Coomes (@TomCoomes) on Twitter
Oh Sweetness!! Bakery & Cafe, LLC - Bakery - Leesburg, IN
Credits:
Host & Executive Producer: Stuart Carlton
Co-host: Hope Charters
Producers: Hope Charters, Carolyn Foley, Megan Gunn, & Irene Miles
Associate Producer: Ethan Chitty
Music by: Stuart Carlton
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How many episodes does Teach Me About the Great Lakes have?
Teach Me About the Great Lakes currently has 118 episodes available.
What topics does Teach Me About the Great Lakes cover?
The podcast is about Places & Travel, Society & Culture, Environment, Podcasts and Science.
What is the most popular episode on Teach Me About the Great Lakes?
The episode title '62: The G.L.O.A.T.' is the most popular.
What is the average episode length on Teach Me About the Great Lakes?
The average episode length on Teach Me About the Great Lakes is 41 minutes.
How often are episodes of Teach Me About the Great Lakes released?
Episodes of Teach Me About the Great Lakes are typically released every 14 days.
When was the first episode of Teach Me About the Great Lakes?
The first episode of Teach Me About the Great Lakes was released on Nov 26, 2019.
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