One Lagoon, One Voice: The Podcast
One Lagoon, One Voice: The Podcast
Latest Episodes
Reconnected: Reviving the Indian River Lagoon by Reconnecting Isolated Wetlands
Florida's mosquito control districts built earthen dikes around coastal wetlands starting in the mid-1950s. Flooding marshes with water interrupted the breeding cycle of salt marsh mosquitoes, which lay eggs on moist — but not wet — mud. <...
Invisible Infrastructure: How Baffle Boxes Filter Stormwater Before It Reaches the Lagoon
Every time it rains, stormwater carries trash, sediment, nitrogen and phosphorus into the Indian River Lagoon (IRL). But underground sits a growing network of concrete boxes that most Floridians will never notice. Those boxes are silently clean...
What Fish Populations Are Telling Us About the IRL's Health
Every fishing regulation in Florida (every bag limit, every closed season) traces back to data. Biologists at the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservat...
Seeds of Recovery: A Hidden Seed Bank Bringing Seagrass Back to the Indian River Lagoon
For over a decade, persistent algal blooms clouded the Indian River Lagoon (IRL), blocking the sunlight seagrass needs to survive. Since 2011, that loss has rippled through the food web: fewer fish, fewer manatees, a lagoon under stress.
What Dolphins Are Telling Us About the Indian River Lagoon's Recovery
About 1,000 bottlenose dolphins call the Indian River Lagoon (IRL) home for most of their lives. Researchers have tracked this resident population for 18 years, photo-identifying around 2,000 individual dolphins, and know many by name.B...