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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Bats & Rabid Misinformation in the Grand Canyon

The River Radius Podcast

08/20/24 • 66 min

Why have cases of reported bat encounters at the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon drastically increased in the last several years? What are the chances of contracting rabies from a bat encounter? How is the safety of helicopter crews wrapped up in the physical location of a bat encounter? What does the vaccination process look like? In this episode, we utilize the personal story of a river runner's bat bite in the Grand Canyon, the expert perspectives of 2 ecologists, a CDC rabies expert, and the woman who oversees Search and Rescue in the Grand Canyon to provide insight into that real bat encounter that played out in the fall of 2023.

GUESTS

Beppe Amodio
Brandon Holton
Anya Metcalfe
Dr. Ryan Wallace
Lisa Hendy

RESOURCES

Rabies surveillance in the United States during 2022
Bat Citizen Science in the Grand Canyon
Radiolab episode on Rabies
Novartis Pharmaceuticals Patient Assistance Program
Grifols Patient Assistance Program
RX Assist

American Whitewater’s Top 10 River Stewardship Focus

The River Radius Podcast

02/20/24 • 64 min

American Whitewater published their Top 10 List of Stewardship issues in January 2024. This is a mix of dam removal projects, legislation and policy pushes, Wild and Scenic options, all encompassed in the work from American Whitewater to keep rivers clean and accessible. This episode is an interview Kevin Colburn from American Whitewater learning about each river on this list and the positive end goals.

The Shocking Details of River Lightning

The River Radius Podcast

03/14/23 • 58 min

Is it true that lightning can’t strike in the Grand Canyon? How far can lightning travel through water? If it does strike, where is the safest place to be? This episode explores lightning from scientific and risk management perspectives. Grounding theory through personal narratives and best practices, this episode is a tool for any river runner’s stormy trips.
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GUESTS

LAURA HARRIS

JOHN BELZ, UNIVERSITY OF UTAH

John Belz's Undergraduate Seminar Power Point (it loads but real slow, and its super cool)

Video: "ROCKET-TRIGGERED LIGHTNING" from University of Florida

JOHN GOOKIN, NOLS, NOAA
John Gookin's book, "LIGHTNING"

John Gookin's research paper, "BACKCOUNTRY LIGHTNING RISK MANAGEMENT"

John Gookin's NOAA Brochure

RESOURCES

Lightning Safety Brochure: https://www.weather.gov/media/owlie/backcountry_lightning.pdf

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Part 2: Green Race 2022

The River Radius Podcast

11/18/22 • 51 min

For the past 27 years in November, class 5 kayakers have assembled at the Green River in North Carolina for the Green Race. And a couple thousand hardy spectators hike the miles down to cheer on these rowdy kayakers. In these two episodes we tell the story of the race and we meet two of the women racing. One has won the race 12 times. The other is a first time racer, and an Olympic kayaker. Come mad bomb the Green River with us.

ADVERTISING SPONSORS

Native Teen Guide in Training Program

CFI website

Donation link

Native Teen Guide in Training 2021 Video

Lavabox

EVY LIEBFARTH

ADRIENE LEVKNECHT

GREEN RACE

GREEN RACE ARTICLES

Boofing the Green (Read this one!!!)

15 Things You Didn’t Know About the Green Race

The Secret History of the Green

The Green Race is Coming

GREEN RACE VIDEOS

Sparkle Princess (Watch this one!!!)

Inside the Green Race 2022

Cool Rescue

2021 Highlight Reel

Interview of John Grace

SARAH RUHLEN RACE DEDICATION

Memorial Fund

website

GREEN RACE CONSERVATION PROJECT

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Source to Sea on the Saco River

The River Radius Podcast

06/22/21 • 52 min

JOE KLEMENTOVICH

RIVERS FOR CHANGE
Source to Sea Projects

Instagram
Website

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Website
Facebook
Instagram
Email

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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

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

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Mile 153 Sacramento Source to Sea

The River Radius Podcast

03/31/21 • 24 min

In March of 2021, three women launched a source to sea expedition on the Sacramento River in California. In this new episode, we talk for 25 minutes with the crew at mile 153 and hear about how the river has changed once they left the mountains and was impounded behind a few different dams. They call themselves Sacramento Source to Sea. They skied on snow to get to their river launch and began paddling downriver. We interviewed them before they launched in episode 16, Mile 0 Sacramento River Source to Sea. They are now low in the Central Valley meeting river people in river towns to learn about how modern day communities engage with this river that irrigates farms and ranches that feed America. They will paddle through the capital of California, Sacramento, and switch from pack rafts to sea kayaks and continue paddling on the salt water to the Golden Gate Bridge. We will interview them again as their trip progresses.

River Radius Podcast: email, website, instagram, facebook.

Sacramento Source to Sea instagram.

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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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2020

The River Radius Podcast

01/26/20 • 5 min

2020 is an important push out year for this podcast. Target topics are discussed here, and an invitation for you as the listener to engage. Also, some insight is covered regarding what happened in 2019 to build this podcast.

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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

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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