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Teach Me About the Great Lakes — 136 episodes

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1

The Lowest of the Low Tier

2

The Plants Are It

3

The Mighty Mac

4

The Air Can Change Everything

5

Re-air: A Bizarrely Average Year

6

I'm Drinking Fish

7

Making Museums Happen

8

The 2025 Lakies

9

Push Their Nose Upstream

10

The Season of Giving 2025

11

It’s in the Collaboration and Connection

12

The Lakehouse of Terror IV

13

They Just Kind of Spray Things

14

Spoiler Alert: This is Not Fine

15

Standing on a Groin

16

Physical Intricacies of Water

17

They Got Along Just Fine Without Pottery

18

Rerun: There's a Little Bit of Poo

19

A Size-Based Contaminant

20

A News-Packed Episode

21

A Dr Fish Emergency!

22

The Consequences of Our Own Actions

23

It Is Coming from the Pipes

24

All of the Gauges We Have

25

Massive Piles of Petroleum Coke

26

Christmas Tree Wreck

27

Why Don't You Do Stories like This More Often?

28

Diner Tuna is the Best Tuna

29

An Era of Body Snatching

30

Surf the Underwater Waterfall

31

Ask Dr Fish: They're Cool Brook Trout

32

The Great Lakes Hotdog

33

They Eat It, They Excrete It

34

Most of My Babies Are Buoys

35

Ask Dr Fish: Reach in, Grab a Snack

36

This Kringle Situation

37

Whose Sewage Was Whose?

38

Ask Dr Fish: The Great Lakes Are My Aquarium

39

The 2023 Lakies

40

Yikes! Audio!

41

A Generational Opportunity

42

I Ask for Broader Shoulders

43

Ask Dr Fish: Feast of the Seven Fishmases

44

A Really Nice Thickness of Cheese

45

The Lakehouse of Terror III

46

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

47

Great Lakes Champions

48

Different Polymer Backbones

49

Biomagnifying in the Food Chain

50

The Inland Seas

51

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

52

250 Breeding Pairs

53

Our Shared Responsibility

54

This Is Possibly the Best Thing I've Ever Done

55

We Can't Measure Them All

56

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

57

You're All in Close Quarters

58

Hypoxic Layer on the Bottom

59

How Heavy Water Is

60

Ask Dr Fish 3: A Scientific Discussion of Anatomy

61

The Pandas Should Have Been a Red Flag

62

Simple Physics in Complex Systems

63

It Depends on How You Do a One

64

They're Less Enthusiastic about Sandwiches

65

The 2022 Lakies

66

Ask Dr. Fish 2: A Great Big Swimming Tongue

67

An Extremely Ambitious Goal

68

The Season of Giving II

69

69: The Lakehouse of Terror II

70

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

71

67: Lake Erie Has Really Good Brewing Water

72

66: There's a Little Bit of Poo

73

65: An Accident of Industrial History

74

64: Species That We Haven’t yet Mourned

75

63: The Pull of a Long Hike

76

62: The G.L.O.A.T.

77

61: The Water We Swim In

78

60: The Sounds That Are Emitted

79

59: They Opened the Eyes of People

80

58: Look at What the Algae Are Doing

81

57: I Only Think About the P

82

56: Nerd out about Mussels

83

55: Ask Dr. Fish

84

54: Water Is Sacred

85

53: Source, Path, People

86

52: Let's Buy a Vowel Here

87

51: I Haven’t Eaten a Smelt Since

88

50: A Bizarrely Average Year

89

49: I Recommend the Thunder Pass

90

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

91

47: The Lakies

92

46: It’s All Stuff That I’ve Eaten

93

45: The Season of Giving

94

44: Lakehouse of Terror I

95

43: We Weren't Shooting up from the Bottom

96

42: I Need to Get More Lakes

97

41: Clean Litter, Collect Data, and Capture Community Attention

98

40: DNA from the Cheeks

99

39: Cottonballs with Toothpick Legs

100

38: Taking Nutrients Down to the Bottom

101

37: Seventy Scouts in an Enclosed Tube

102

35: Most Weather Weenies Will Probably Remember (re-air, new title)

103

34: A Million Little Triangles

104

33: Science Is a Team Sport

105

32: What Had Been Safe Is Now Dangerous

106

31: Bathed in Their Own Liquidy, Sugary Feces

107

30: No, They're on the Phone

108

29: I Love a Good Collaboration

109

28: Bald Eagle as a Proxy

110

27: The Claws Have the Sweetest Meat

111

26: We position kids to think about, "Who are you asking?"

112

25: Don’t Alienate People Who Need Your Help

113

24: It Was Way Too Liquidy and Weird

114

23: What Allyship Looks Like in Action

115

22: It Tends to Get Louder During a Recession

116

21: Fly-to States

117

20: Humans Control Inches

118

19: Secretive Marsh Birds

119

18: They Are Really Important

120

17: Flip, Float, and Follow

121

16: It’s Really Hard to Monitor for All of the Gross Stuff

122

15: We’re Doing Everything in Plastic

123

14: Take the Plunge

124

13: It Smells Like Science

125

12: You Never Lose Track of Your Old Friends

126

11: An Empty Chunk of Fiberglass

127

10: A Lot of Different Kinds of Data

128

9: The Hamster Wheel of Rumination

129

8: The Really Delicious Carbon

130

6: A Lot of This Is in Our Own Hands

131

5: We're All in This Together

132

4.5: The Role of Information Was Quite Limited

133

4: That Long Fetch Setup

134

3: It Would Have to Be the Perfect Rock

135

2: Limnologists Make up Lots of Words

136

1: They're Also Called Nurdles