The Southwest Florida Amphibian Monitoring Network, or Frog Watch , was established in the year 2000 in order to collect long-term data on frog communities of the region. Volunteers, which include researchers, students, and members of the public walk specific routes at night during the summer listening for the sounds of frog calls, and collecting that data.

The outbreak of a respiratory illness caused by a new coronavirus first identified in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China has now spread all across the world, including right here in Southwest Florida. On today’s show we’re joined by a molecular virologist from Florida Gulf Coast University to learn about coronaviruses, and what’s know about this new one that causes COVID-19 .

When Claudine Schneider was elected as a republican United States representative in Rhode Island, she was the first, and still to this date only woman ever elected to Congress from the state. She served five terms before running for U.S. Senate in 1991, challenging the incumbent Claiborne Pell but losing. After leaving Congress, Schneider served as a member of the faculty of the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University . She’s currently a resident of Boulder, Colorado, where

The Punta Gorda Symphony ’s classical concert series continues Sunday evening with a program featuring composer Kenneth Fuchs ’ Piano Concerto “ Spiritualist ,” featuring soloist Jeffrey Biegel . The world premiere recording of this work, which also featured Biegel with the London Symphony Orchestra , garnered a Grammy Award for Best Classical Compendium.

Gene Healy has been an outspoken critic of executive power throughout his career as a political pundit, journalist and editor. He’s currently Vice President at the libertarian think tank Cato Institute , and a contributing editor to Liberty magazine. His research interests include executive power and the role of the presidency, as well as federalism and overcriminalization.

Barbara Stephenson is a career member of the United States Senior Foreign Service who served as the Ambassador to the Republic of Panama during the Obama Administration. During her more than 30 year career she also served as Deputy Chief of Mission at the US Embassy in London, and as Deputy Coordinator for Iraq at the U.S. Department of State.

Since 1946 the not-for-profit Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation has focused on finding young researchers who are exploring out of the box approaches to treating various forms of cancer.

Conductor, composer, arranger and musical visionary Steven Hackman returns to the Southwest Florida Symphony for the third consecutive year to lead the orchestra in a performance of his “ Mashupalooza: A Stereo Hideout Production .” Hackman is best known for his innovative works of classical-pop fusion blending orchestral compositions with the music of popular contemporary artists.

Florida Gulf Coast University offered its first class on medical cannabis, called ‘Weed: The impact of marijuana on American life’ back in the fall of 2018. Since then, it has scaled up, now offering 9 classes and a cannabis focus under the Integrated Studies major. And, starting this Saturday, February 29th it will offering a 5-day Cannabis Professional Certificate Program that focuses on things like cannabis history, laws and policies relating to the plant, and cannabis as a business.

This Saturday afternoon from 2-5:00pm there’s going to be a debate on U.S. Immigration Policy at Florida Southwestern State College’s Charlotte County Campus . It will focus on topics like DACA and TPS , asylum and refugee seeker status, and the detention & separation of families. What makes this debate, about such contentious issues, different, is it’s being conducted by students from Port Charlotte High School’s award-winning Model United Nations team .