Carolyn Foley

Carolyn Foley

Appears in 66 Episodes

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...

58: Look at What the Algae Are Doing

Special bonus episode? Special bonus episode! As a follow up to our Game of Nutrients, here are Andy Bramburger's answers in full.

57: I Only Think About the P

TMATGL Live! Stuart, Hope, and Carolyn speak with The Builder of Buoys himself: Ed Verhamme of LimnoTech and have a virtual appearance from IAGLR President Andy Brambu...

56: Nerd out about Mussels

Stuart and Carolyn speak with Dr. Ashley Elgin of NOAA's Great Lakes Environmental Research Lab about the benthos, mussels, and other dreissenids. And buoys. Re-upload...

55: Ask Dr. Fish

Fish questions? Science questions? Life questions? Titus Seilheimer and Katie O'Reilly, our Dr(s) Fish(es), have answers!

52: Let's Buy a Vowel Here

PFAS, PFOS, CECs, PBDEs... In this episode, Stuart and Carolyn speak with Dr. Marta Venier of Indiana University about the alphabet soup of chemicals in the Great Lake...

50: A Bizarrely Average Year

Stuart and Carolyn speak with James Kessler of the NOAA Great Lakes Environmental Research Lab about lake ice coverage, shoveling snow for ice hockey, and the smoothes...

48: Lake Effect Snow is Magical (re-air)

Happy new year! While we recover from the Lakies and the holidays, we're re-airing our 2020 conversation with Tom Coomes of ABC 57 in South Bend.