The River Radius Podcast

Sam Carter

This is a river podcast, and a great story, boating, science, adventure and conservation podcast.

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Part 1 Tijuana River, Binational Flow

The River Radius Podcast

02/18/25 • 44 min

This episode is on site where a beautiful desert mountain river flows through an estuary and into the Pacific Ocean. Before the Tijuana River meets the ocean, it navigates through a dense urban border region with 5 million people. The outcome is a river that is carrying toxic sewage and pollution to the ocean, closing beaches and creating illness in the river and beach communities. This is the first episode in a series about this beautiful place, the epic pollution, and the incredible people who are engaged in the work to clean up this river and ocean.

GUESTS

Ramon Chairez

Dr Paula Granados

Dr Kimberly Dickson
Dr Matthew Dickson
Tijuana River

Imperial Beach Closed

Saturn Boulevard Hot Spot

Tijuana River National Estuarine Research Reserve

Tijuana, Mexico

San Diego / Tijuana Metro Area
SPONSORS

American Rivers
@americanrivers
Facebook

Karis Foundation

Denver Area Nissan Dealers
@nissanusa

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Part 1: Kevin Fedarko Live

The River Radius Podcast

06/25/24 • 70 min

Dam Removal Updates & Trends

The River Radius Podcast

04/30/24 • 68 min

Dams have been blocking rivers for decades. Is there a growing crack in the dam? This episode explores dam removal as an increasing trend. We talk with guests at the Chattooga River and Tugalo Dam, the Snake River and the Lower Snake River Dams, and the Klamath River and the active removal project there. And we look at the trends globally for dam construction and removal.

SPONSORS
Paddle Ways
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NRS
Instagram

Denver Area Nissan Dealers
Instagram

GUESTS
Chattooga Conservancy
Nicole Hayler
Chattooga River

Grand Salmon Project
Libby Tobey
Snake River

Klamath River Renewal Corporation
Ren Brownell
Klamath River

International Rivers
Josh Klemm

PREVIOUS EPISODES ON SAME TOPICS

Klamath 1: The Origins of Paddle Tribal Waters
Klamath 2: The Next Generation of Paddle Tribal Waters

Salmon 1: Mountain Origins
Salmon 2: Big Dam Problems & Solutions
Salmon 3: Fighting Salmon Extinction Real Time

THUMBNAIL PIC
Copco 2 Dam deconstruction on Klamath River, June 2023
Credit: Shane Anderson, Swiftwater Films

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10 Rivers for 2024

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04/16/24 • 65 min

Each year American Rivers publishes a list of 10 rivers that hold great opportunity for river quality improvements. This year, in addition to covering the full list with Amy Kober of American Rivers, we talk with local experts to include the ocean surfers at the Tijuana River estuary in California, the river lovers at the Duck River in Tennessee, and the high desert river people overseeing the entire state of New Mexico. We hear about the unique rivers and the work happening to care for these places.

Sexual Harassment in River Guide Culture

The River Radius Podcast

07/23/24 • 71 min

Working as a commercial river guide is one of the best jobs, day after day on rivers, helping people enjoy rivers, seeing beauty, having fun, chasing adrenaline. Creating incredible friendships, some of which might last a lifetime. And there can be a dark layer. Sexual Harassment continues to percolate, as it does in many places, in the layers of river guide culture. This episode goes there and learns about sexual harassment in the river guiding culture. We talk with Dr Maria Blevins, long time river guide, who has conducted research on this topic. We hear from guide warehouse and staff manager, Bryant Baker, about how he is working to eliminate sexual harassment from the company he manages. And we talk with Respect Outside and Jim Miller to gain clarity about sexual harassment definitions, when sexual harassment is assault, how and why it percolates in river guiding, and resources available for guide companies to shake free of sexual harassment.
SPONSORS

Denver Area Nissan Dealers
Instagram

Over It Raft Covers
@overitraftcovers
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GUESTS

Dr Maria Blevins
University of Utah
Paddling Magazine article by Dr Blevins
Bryant Baker
Jim MIller
Respect Outside
Sexual Harassment Trainings
RESOURCES
A-DASH website
Instagram
Facebook
You Tube
Strand Squared Solutions

Engage Coaching & Consulting

EEOC
US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
Harassment

GRAND CANYON RIVER DISTRACT

Men's Journal: Rough Water: A River Guide Tells Her Side of the Story

High Country News: Grand Canyon park's 15 year failure on sexual harassment
High Country News: Grand Canyon abolishes river district in response to sexual harassment allegations

Outside Magazine: Hostile Environment
Outside Magazine: The Woman Ending Sexual Harassment at the Grand Canyon

Huffpost: Out Here, No One Can Hear You Scream

US Dept of Interior: Investigative Report of Misconduct at the Grand Canyon River District

SEXUAL HARASSMENT & ASSUALT IN ROCK CLIMBING

New York Times: Rock Climber...

Source to Sea: Maine's Sandy & Kennebec Rivers

The River Radius Podcast

10/24/24 • 43 min

25 years ago the Edwards Dam was removed from the Kennebec River in Maine allowing alewives and sturgeon to return to their spawning grounds in force, revitalizing the ecosystem and delighting the paddlers and local communities with the sturgeons’ explosive breaching displays. In the summer of 2024, 2 separate source to sea trips ran the lengths of the Sandy and Kennebec in Maine. Contributing host Clark Tate was part of the Sandy trip and tells the on river story of both source to sea trips.

CONTRIBUTING HOST
Clark Tate
@lclarktate

RIVERS FOR CHANGE
@riversforchange
www.riversforchange.org
2024 Sandy to Kennebec Confluence

GUESTS

Stuart Hickey, raft guide
@freeheelinghickey

Jessica Sterling, kayak instructor and web designer
@jester1ing

Chris Morgan
@ccmorgan8

Jennifer Noll
Maine Department of Marine Resources

Saige Purser
@saigelinsay
River Radius Podcast - Native Teen Guide In Training Program

Joe Klementovich, Photographer
@klementovich klementovichphoto.com
River Radius Podcast - Source to Sea on the Saco River

Matt Palmariello
@mattpalmariello
www.mainepaddling.com

Amy Borch, Tattoo artist
@amy.wildhand
@melontrout.tattoo

Eli Studer, Tattoo artist
@elistudertatto
www.elistudertatto.com

Part 2, Dr Len Necefer, 2025

The River Radius Podcast

01/07/25 • 45 min

Dr Len Necefer opens up 2025 for The River Radius. Len is the mind and perspective I wanted to welcome me and you both into this 6th season of The River Radius. We talk through the relationship of rivers and elections, of books for this year, the work and impact of Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland, and other river and life layers. Len is the founder of Natives Outdoors, the Sonoran Avalanche Center, runs rivers, is articulate and intelligently humorous. This is the 2nd episode with Dr Len Necefer and both are some of my favorites.

1ST EPISODE: Part 1, Dr Len Necefer, Living in the Soup
Apple Podcasts
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GUEST
Dr Len Necefer website
Natives Outdoors
Outside TV: Running Dry
Dr Len Necefer personal IG account
Sonoran Avalanche Center IG account

RELEVANT LINKS
Office of Indian Energy Policy and Programs
Honold Foundation

BOOKS
Surviving Autocracy by Masha Gessen
The NativesOutdoors reading list for the outdoor industry

SPONSORS
Denver Area Nissan Dealers
@nissanusa

River Management Society
2025 Symposium
@rivermgtsociety
FB River Management Society

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Supraglacial Rivers

The River Radius Podcast

06/08/21 • 21 min

While interviewing Dr. Laurence C. Smith for an episode in May about his new book, "Rivers of Power, we went down a rabbit hole of talking about Supraglacial Rivers. This short conversation gets the basics of these unique rivers that start on the top of the glaciers and is a more candid expression from Dr. Smith about this topic that he researches at great depth. Supraglacial rivers are constantly moving their locations, changing flows and are unique among rivers as they carry no sediment.

GUEST

Dr. Laurence C. Smith

RESEARCH

Northern Change Research Laboratory

Supraglacial River Forcing of Subglacial Water Storage and Diurnal Ice Sheet Motion

BOOKS
Rivers of Power

The World in 2050

VIDEOS

What a Glacial River Reveals About the Greenland Ice Sheet

ARTICLES

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/10/24/greenland-is-melting

http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-catastrophic-greenland-melt-20150112-story.html

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/12/05/climate/greenland-ice-melting.html

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/10/27/world/greenland-is-melting-away.html

THE RIVER RADIUS

Previous episode with Dr. Laurence C. Smith, "The Book: Rivers of Power" on our Website,
Apple Podcasts and Spotify.

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From The Grand to Corona

The River Radius Podcast

03/21/20 • 47 min

While spending 25 days intentionally away from the world of technology and news and globalization, a group of friends navigated the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon building friendships, exploring the canyons, resetting their life trajectory. In that 25 day period, a virus that started at a market in inland China has caught rides in cars, on planes and trains, and has moved to 6 continents, killing people, maxing out health care systems, scaring financial markets, causing rigid governmental responses, and in many places it is ignored as nothing big. In one moment these friends are having moments of reflection and joy, and then moments of confusion, then they are welcomed back to their new paradigm. Two members of the trip tell the story with humor and heartfelt observation. They went into the canyon to take a break, and they come out of the canyon to concerns about family, uncertainty with personal employment, and wondering why there is a toilet paper shortage.

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Part 1, Dr Len Necefer, Living in the Soup

The River Radius Podcast

12/30/24 • 73 min

To move from 2024 into 2025, we have one guest in two episodes for you. Our guest is Dr Len Necefer. This is the first episode. We talk through life wrapped in intellect and self facing humor, 6th grade reading levels, native art and the modern retail market, an upriver bike ride, and river runs at the northern most reaches of the North American continent. Len is the “star” of his Outside TV show where he is riding his bike up the Colorado River from Mexico to Colorado. He is the founder of Natives Outdoors. He served the Obama Administration in the Dept of Energy. And Len is part of the founding crew of the Sonoran Avalanche Center. Len and I sat on top of a small mountain, on a park bench looking down on the deep desert river and ski town of Tucson, Arizona on a Sunday morning in the end of November to laugh and learn, and talk life and rivers.

GUEST
Dr Len Necefer website
Natives Outdoors
Outside TV: Running Dry
Dr Len Necefer personal IG account
Sonoran Avalanche Center IG account

RELEVANT LINKS
Bogs in collaboration with Natives Outdoors
Honold Foundation
Returning Rapids
Returning Rapids of Cataract 2021
Autopsy of a Post Reservoir River

SPONSORS
Denver Area Nissan Dealers
@nissanusa

Over It Raft Covers
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How many episodes does The River Radius Podcast have?

The River Radius Podcast currently has 109 episodes available.

What topics does The River Radius Podcast cover?

The podcast is about Conservation, Places & Travel, Society & Culture, Story, Natural Sciences, Fish, Climate Change, Adventure, River, Podcasts and Science.

What is the most popular episode on The River Radius Podcast?

The episode title 'Part 1: Kevin Fedarko Live' is the most popular.

What is the average episode length on The River Radius Podcast?

The average episode length on The River Radius Podcast is 52 minutes.

How often are episodes of The River Radius Podcast released?

Episodes of The River Radius Podcast are typically released every 15 days.

When was the first episode of The River Radius Podcast?

The first episode of The River Radius Podcast was released on May 12, 2019.

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