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Assateague Voices
by John Husson
Assateague Voices explores Assateague Island and the natural, environmental, and societal influences that shape it. Each episode will tell the story of Assateague Island through the people who live here, work here, play here, care for it year-round, and are in many ways transformed by it--the queen of surf, the king of cottages, devoted camp hosts, even the horse who took one visitor on a pretty amazing spiritual adventure.
Episodes
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Episode 25: Rocket Science 3—Cubes in Space!
This month, Assateague Voices celebrates "NASA November," with a three-part series on the RockOn and RockSat-C and -X education programs at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility. For the third and final episode we highlight Cubes in Space, a RockOn and RockSat partner, and the only global STEM program...
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Episode 24: Rocket Science 2—On a Mission for Good
This month, Assateague Voices celebrates NASA November, with a three-part series on the RockOn and RockSat-C and -X education programs at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility. These programs draw higher education students from around the country to Wallops every summer, to fly experiments of their own...
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Episode 23: Rocket Science 1—Team Rocket (NASA's Version)
One of the most important missions undertaken by NASA's Wallops Flight Facility is STEM engagement—delivering programs and resources that support education in science, technology, engineering, and math. And key to that mission are the RockSat and RockOn programs. These programs draw higher ed...
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Episode 22: Pony Patrol Rides Again
If you've visited the Maryland side of Assateague Island over the last few years you've encountered the Pony Patrol. It's the small, all-volunteer year-round force dedicated to keeping the island's two dominant invasive species—wild horses and humans—safe from each other. This summer I spoke with...
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Episode 21: Spawning Horseshoe Crabs!
In this episode, I speak with Carly Toulan of the Maryland Coastal Bays Program. Every spring, working with the Maryland Department of Natural Resources, she and her team of volunteers conduct a survey of spawning horseshoe crabs in Maryland's coastal bays. These surveys provide invaluable…
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Assateague Farewell
Today, August 31, 2023, marks Liz Davis's last day as Chief of Interpretation and Education for Assateague Island National Seashore. Liz is retiring from the National Park Service after a 32-year career, all of it spent on Assateague. Liz sat down with me recently and took a look back at a career...
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Episode 19: Mark 12
The little islands that dot the coastal bays around Assateague Island are among the world's top spots for colonies of island-nesting birds. These include Black Skimmers — the birds that give Skimmer Island its name — as well various species of terns, from the Common to the Royal. Both Assateague...
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Episode 18: Snow Hill to Shelltown
Billy Weiland of Assateague Coastal Trust is a long-time friend of the podcast, and I'm happy to welcome him back for this third visit. We spoke in ACT's spacious new offices, into which they had just moved. Even with unpacked boxes lining the walls it's a very impressive space, and we can look...
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Episode 17: Meghan's Garden
Meghan Rhode, Assateague State Park's assistant manager, hadn't given much thought to pollinator habitats until she was put in charge of one. Since then, she and the habitat have blossomed. In this episode Meghan gives us a fascinating guided tour of the park's pollinator habitat, discusses…
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The Biggest Little Program
In this episode we meet Sandi Smith, marketing and outreach coordinator for The Maryland Coastal Bays Program. MCBP celebrates 25 years of education, restoration, and collaboration this year, and Sandi Smith has been a key part of it for 14 of those years. She jokes that she came here on a…
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Episode 15: Living Shoreline, Living Bay
In this episode we meet Kevin Smith, Executive Director of the Maryland Coastal Bays Program. Kevin takes us through the history of the Assateague State Park shoreline resiliency and wetland enhancement project, the benefits of living shorelines over revetments, connecting upland and shoreline to...
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Episode 14: Dynamic Living Shorelines
In this episode we meet Chris Becraft of Underwood & Associates. Chris designs and builds ecological restoration projects. Chris fills us in on his Assateague State Park Shoreline Resiliency and Wetland Enhancement Project, dynamic living shorelines, taking the hundred-year view on climate change...
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Episode 13: Telescope Night
In this episode, we go back in time to October, 21, 2017, and visit Telescope Night at Assateague Island National Seashore. We talk with three volunteers from the Delmarva Space Sciences Foundation about the need for dark skies, homemade telescopes, colliding galaxies, and the magic of…
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Episode 12: My Ever Changing Dunes
Angela Baldwin manages one of my favorite spots on earth — Maryland's Assateague State Park. ASP is nestled inside Assateague Island National Seashore, at the north end just before the sand barrens. We've camped there in one iteration or another since 2005. In this episode, Angela discusses the...
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Episode 11: The Beach Beyond
In this episode, I talk with Gretchen Knapp of the National Park Service. Gretchen runs the Visitors Center in Tom's Cove at the Virginia end. Gretchen and Assateague Island have been practically inseparable for most of her adult life. As we say in this episode, it's not so much that she claimed...
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Episode 10: Welcome Visitors
In this episode, I talk with Kelly Taylor of the National Park Service. Kelly manages the Assateague Island National Seashore Visitors Center in Maryland, which sits at the foot of the Verrazano Bridge that takes visitors from the mainland to the national and state parks. It's got everything you...
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Episode 9: AIA
In this episode, we talk with Ashlie Kozlowski, Outreach Coordinator of the Assateague Island Alliance. AIA is the non-profit partner of Assateague Island National Seashore, and it contributes greatly to many of the park's important programs such as the Wild Horse Management Program. Plus, if you...
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#TrashFreeAssateague
Conversation with Billy Weiland of Assateague Coastal Trust about ACT's #TrashFreeAssateague project, Hands Across the Sand, his blog The Marsh, and the most important lesson he's learned from nature (so far). Recorded at the Assateague Island Visitor Center and edited at the Assateague Island…
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Episode 7: Beach Voices
Assateague offers solitude and surf, but it also offers something else: community. Day use visitors, Eurovan travelers, Mother's Day celebrants, weddings, proposals, surfers and surf fishers, horse lovers, stargazers, and lots of families of all shapes and sizes: They create a vibrant community…
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Episode 6: Native Son
Billy Weiland is a son of Assateague. He grew up here, surfed here, and got his degree from Salisbury U. before leaving for grad school in North Carolina. He's back home with a newfound appreciation for the island and a passion for preserving and protecting it. Meet the newest staff member of the...
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Episode 5: Wild Horses
This week, Chris & Brady of the Maryland Conservation Corps. share some surprising information about Assateague Island's legendary wild horses. Are they ponies or horses? The answer to this burning question and more! Episode 5, "Wild Horses." Let's go!
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Episode 4: Tiny Beach Houses
This week we visit with Ron Harrigan, the man behind Coastal Campers and Assateague Cottages. Ron talks about his lifelong love of tiny houses and surfing, and we hear from a very satisfied customer. Let's go.
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Episode 4a: Wait 'til Next Week
This week's episode of Assateague Voices will actually air next week, while I finish up an unrelated audio project. So next week, we'll talk with Assateague visionary Ron Harrigan. Ron's Coastal Campers have saved Assateague camping for many of us. Now he's transforming camping again with his…
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Episode 3: Surf's Up, Part 3
"You're actually in the lineup where everybody is, you can sit on top of your board and just drift. And then when there's a wave you paddle and you go. And then it makes life much funner." 7 yr old wahine Charlie Cox explains it all. Surf's Up Part 3.
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Episode 2: Surf's Up, Part 2
Get your jersey, grab your board. There's the horn. The first heat's underway. In this episode, we drop in on the Eastern Surfing Association Delmarva District's Summer Series Surf contest on Assateague's North Beach, on July 22nd. The waves are perfect, the sky is cloudless, and the mood among…
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Surf's Up, Part 1
From the moment I started planning this Assateague podcast, I knew I wanted Michelle as my first guest. Michelle is the Assateague surfing world's Big Wahini. She's revolutionized surfing lessons for women and kids, and currently is executive director of the world's largest amateur surfing...
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Assateague Voices--Hello There
Assateague Voices explores Assateague Island and the natural, environmental, and societal influences that shape it. Each episode will tell the story of Assateague Island through the people who live here, work here, play here, care for it year-round, and are in many ways transformed by it.…
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Assateague Voices explores Assateague Island and the natural, environmental, and societal influences that shape it. Each episode will tell the story of Assateague Island through the people who live here, work here, play here, care for it year-round, and are in many ways transformed by it--the queen of surf, the king of cottages, devoted camp hosts, even the horse who took one visitor on a pretty amazing spiritual adventure.
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John Husson
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