Carried by Water

Carried by Water

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Carried by Water episodes

  • Season 1, Episode 3: ”They Said that Cancabato Bay is Already Dead”

    One response to Super Typhoon Haiyan has focused on building physical infrastructure. How has this approach reshaped people’s relation to the open sea and coastal ecosystems? We hear from experts and a grassroots group calling for a change to this dominant paradigm.

    Guests

    Dakila Kim Yee, University of the Philippines- Tacloban

    Ladylyn Lim Mangada, University of the Philippines- Tacloban

    Jonathan Anticamara, University of the Philippines- Diliman

    Nobuhito Mori, Kyoto University

    Bayani Cardenas, University of Texas at Austin

    Brando Bernadas, Tacloban City Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office

    Mano Roque, Mana Milagros, and Mana Gilda, Paraiso Mangrove Eco Learning Park Marine and Wildlife Sanctuary

     

    58 min
  • Season 1, Episode 2: ”If We Called it a Tsunami”

    Super Typhoon Haiyan seared the meaning of “storm surge” into Filipino minds, but in 2013, authorities were criticized for using this term instead of “tsunami”, which was more familiar at the time. We hear from disaster scientist and Project NOAH director Mahar Lagmay on what went into the public warnings for the storm surge. Survivors Mario Peñaranda and Algina Lacaba recount their firsthand experiences of the surge in Tacloban City, and Brando Bernadas reflects on the city's efforts to improve its disaster risk reduction and evacuation protocols since the storm. Anthropologist Pamela Cajilig shares how pride and poverty influenced people’s evacuation decisions, and Nobuhito Mori, Lea Soria, and Phillip Lapidez shed light on the particular geography and history that make Tacloban vulnerable to catastrophic storm surges.

    Carried by Water is created and hosted by Mario Soriano.

    Copyright 2023 Mario Soriano and Blue Lab (bluelabmedia.org). All rights reserved.

    55 min
  • Season 1, Episode 1: ”A Cluster of Clouds Over the Pacific”

    What was it like to forecast a history-making super typhoon that experts described as “off the scale” and “the most powerful storm to ever make landfall”? Super-typhoon Haiyan made landfall in the Central Philippines ten years ago today. In this inaugural episode of Carried by Water, we hear from PAGASA, the Philippine weather agency, about how Haiyan (known locally as Yolanda) compelled forecasters to break institutional protocols to warn the public in time and posed novel challenges for communicating the impending storm's severity. We also learn from risk communication researcher Inez Ponce de Leon about what the diverse communities in Haiyan's path most needed from official warnings, and with climate scientist Jane Delfino we contemplate the future of extreme weather in a world shaped by climate change.

    Carried by Water is created and hosted by Mario Soriano.

    Copyright 2023 Mario Soriano and Blue Lab (bluelabmedia.org). All rights reserved.

    43 min

About Carried by Water

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Carried by Water explores stories of movement revolving around water as a force of nature, a resource and a pillar of well-being. Season One explores the legacies and lessons learned from Super typhoon Haiyan / Yolanda, which made landfall in the Philippines on November 8, 2013. Season Two travels to the mid-Atlantic region of the United States—where communities in New Jersey and Delaware along with scientists are grappling with questions of relocation in the face of increasing flooding and sea level rise. Through stories of people making real-time decisions of whether the advantages of remaining in place outweigh the risks of repeated disaster, we consider evolving ideas of climate adaptation, home, identity and resilience.