Carolyn Foley

Carolyn Foley

Appears in 63 Episodes

A Dr Fish Emergency!

Episode Links:https://ftw.usatoday.com/2025/01/giant-sturgeon-attacks-mermaid-aquarium-china-videohttps://arstechnica.com/science/2025/02/let-us-spray-river-dolphins-l...

Surf the Underwater Waterfall

In this episode, Stuart and Carolyn speak with Bopi Biddanda, Professor of Water Resources at Grand Valley State, about the fascinating world of underwater sinkholes i...

Ask Dr Fish: They're Cool Brook Trout

We ask our Drs Fish about teenage orcas, coaster brook trout, and who's spawning now. Plus: the Ask Dr. Fish Challenge!Show Credits:Hosts & Producers: Stuart Carlton, ...

The Great Lakes Hotdog

Live from the Kildare House in Windsor, ON as part of the IAGLR conference! Stuart, Megan, and Carolyn speak with Dr. Trevor Pitcher of the Great Lakes Institute for E...

They Eat It, They Excrete It

In this episode, Stuart and Carolyn speak with Dr. Jon Midwood of Fisheries and Oceans Canada about invasive...goldfish? Really? In the Great Lakes? It turns out that ...

Most of My Babies Are Buoys

It's a draft! Finally a draft! Stuart and Carolyn are joined by Katelynn Johnson of the Real-time Aquatic Ecosystem Observation Network (RAEON) and Jessie Grow of the ...

Ask Dr Fish: Reach in, Grab a Snack

We ask our Drs Fish about early springs, late springs, pregnant stingrays, and more. Show Credits:Hosts & Producers: Stuart Carlton, Carolyn Foley, Katie O'Reilly, Tit...

Ask Dr Fish: The Great Lakes Are My Aquarium

We ask our Drs. Fish about fish cannibalism, how one becomes a Dr. Fish, and more.Show credits:Hosts & Producers: Stuart Carlton, Carolyn Foley, Katie O'Reilly, Titus ...

Ask Dr Fish: Feast of the Seven Fishmases

Our Drs. Fish celebrate Fishmas and take questions about cisco spawning, trading mackerel in prison, and more. Plus, the Ask Dr. Fish challenge and Game of the Month! ...

A Really Nice Thickness of Cheese

We're live from the Great Lakes Sea Grant Network Meeting in Evanston, Illinois. Stuart, Carolyn, and Megan speak with El Lower about aquatic invasive species in the G...

Ask Dr Fish: You Won't Want to Eat a Zombie Salmon

Here's an Ask Dr Fish amuse bouche while we wait for Stuart to have time to edit the latest TMATGL. We miss you already, Quinn!Show linksTopic 1 - Fish that see with t...

Biomagnifying in the Food Chain

Stuart and Carolyn speak with Dr. Daniele Miranda about her work on PFAS in Lake Michigan, how PFAS end up in fish, and how the biomagnify across the food chain. Plus:...

Ask Dr Fish #5: What Could Go Wrong Here?

Can a boom in Great Lakes human populations affect fish more than aquatic invasive species do? What is a Black Carp and why should we care? What’s in a name when it co...

250 Breeding Pairs

In this re-aired conversation, Stuart and Carolyn speak with Dr. Francie Cuthbert, one of the world's preeminent plover experts, about piping plovers.Show links:Dr. Cu...

Our Shared Responsibility

Stuart and Carolyn speak with Meredith Brown, director of special projects at Canadian Geographic, about the Biinaagami project, her work as a riverkeeper, and living ...

Ask Dr. Fish 4: You Can Only Eat What You Can Fit in Your Mouth

TMATGL listeners: thanks for your patience! We'll be back on our regular schedule very soon!Want to watch us live? Visit https://www.askdrfish.com/liveTopic 1 - cisco ...

Hypoxic Layer on the Bottom

Stuart and Carolyn speak with Paris Collingsworth about hypoxia in the Great Lakes. What is it? Why does it happen? Is it bad? Plus: more than you probably knew about ...

Ask Dr Fish 3: A Scientific Discussion of Anatomy

In Ask Dr Fish #3, We ask about fish cannons, fish valentines, and fish farts. Plus, the debut of our new segment, "Which Fish Story Is Not a Fish Story?"Want to watch...

The Pandas Should Have Been a Red Flag

Stuart and Carolyn speak with Sarah Dobie of the Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of Michigan about her fascinating new paper on de...

They're Less Enthusiastic about Sandwiches

In this episode, originally aired in August of 2020, Stuart and Carolyn talk with Dr. Madeline Magee of the Wisconsin DNR to understand how she uses models to predict ...

The 2022 Lakies

The Second Annual Lakies, or, quite possibly not the least prestigious Great Lakes-focused awards ceremony there is.

Ask Dr. Fish 2: A Great Big Swimming Tongue

We ask about fish tongues, Fishmas, and fish noir.

The Season of Giving II

Each November, we love to feature nonprofits who are doing wonderful work throughout the Great Lakes. This year, we speak with Laura Rubin of the Healing Our Waters Gr...

68: Ask Dr. Fish Episode 1 - The Telltale Bubbles

In a special episode, we debut our new show, Ask Dr. Fish. We hope that you enjoy it!

67: Lake Erie Has Really Good Brewing Water

Stuart and Carolyn speak with Mike Williams of the Great Lakes Brewing Company about beer, their triple bottom line philosophy, and whether or not Hazard is the best m...

66: There's a Little Bit of Poo

The TMATGL team speaks with Dr. Chris Winslow about Lake Erie, including the long-awaited debut of the Wheel of Erie game! We recorded live from the Masthead Brewery i...

65: An Accident of Industrial History

Stuart and Carolyn speak with Dr. Lynne Heasley about her wonderful, delightful, super-fun, award-winning book, The Accidental Reef and Other Ecological Odysseys in th...

61: The Water We Swim In

Stuart and Carolyn speak with Bonnie Willison and Hali Jama, co-producers of The Water We Swim In, a great new podcast about Wisconsin and Great Lakes advocates workin...