MN Sea Grant: Superior Waves

Host Jesse Schomberg talks to Minnesota Sea Grant's Director, John Downing, about some of the coastal challenges Sea Grant and aquatic scientists are working to solve.

Host Jesse Schomberg talks with Erica Strom, a Minnesota Green Corps volunteer who is working with the City of Duluth to minimize the amount of road salt that ends up in the city's streams and in Lake Superior.

Host Jesse Schomberg talks about Lake Superior's sand, how it forms and why he has a bag of black sand in his office.

Host Jesse Schomberg talks with University of Minnesota Duluth undergraduate Annika Whitcomb about her role in managing Minnesota Sea Grant's social media.

Jesse Schomberg talks with L.J. Rogers, UMD undergraduate and president of the American Fisheries Society - University of Minnesota Duluth Subunit, about preparing for a career in fisheries science.

Host Jesse Schomberg talks about cyanobacteria (aka. blue-green algae) and ways that Sea Grant, and possibly you, are working to understand hazardous algae blooms.

On Oct 15, 1966 President Johnson signed the Sea Grant College Act. Why would he do such a thing? What did it do? What has it done (maybe found a key to curing cancer?!?!?)? What does it mean for the future?

Host Jesse Schomberg interviews Dr. Michael Sierszen, Research Ecologist with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, about the Cooperative Science and Monitoring Initiative on the Great Lakes.

Host Jesse Schomberg talks about the charter fishing industry in western Lake Superior and the aquatic food web on which it is built.

Host Jesse Schomberg interviews UMD undergraduate Claire Freesmeier about her internship with Minnesota Sea Grant's Aquatic Invasive Species Program and the non-native species that are poised to damage Lake Superior if the region continues to warm due to its changing climate.