Blue Earth

This episode of the Blue Earth Podcast features Dr. Patrick Heidkamp, Professor of Geography, and the current Chair of the Department of the Environment, Geography and Marine Sciences at Southern Connecticut State University in New Haven, CT. Southern has a new Werth Center For Coastal and Marine Studies, which is quite impressive. Check it out at https://www.southernct.edu/ccms Patrick shares his journey, which illustrates that it’s not always a straight line and the trip along the way can teach valuable lessons and perspectives. His observations and practices, driven by human rights and environmental advocacy, coupled with pragmatic economic solutions are examples of how as he says, we can innovate our way out of environmental problems. Patrick also talks about Southern’s Project Blue and international Coastal Transitions Conference. For more information check out futurefrogmen.org and look for us on social media @futurefrogmen.

This episode of the Blue Earth Podcast is a conversation with Dr. Wade Worthen, Professor of Biology at Furman University. As a community ecologist he uses insect communities as model systems. His views on biodiversity are important and enlightening. It’s the story of a man who in his youth couldn’t get enough of the neighborhood’s wooded wonderland. As he grew, so did his curiosity about the natural world. The family physician became a role model to learn more about science. Wade earned his undergraduate degree from Bucknell and Masters and PhD from Rutgers University. He shares personal and academic observations about the precious aquatic ecosystems within inland waterways and estuaries.. For more information check out futurefrogmen.org and look for us on social media @futurefrogmen.

This episode of the Blue Earth Podcast is a conversation with Ken Nedimyer, a CNN Hero for “Defending The Planet”. It’s a story about a former commercial fisherman who proactively worked with state and federal groups to ensure a sustainable future. His observations about reefs in jeopardy led to possible ways to save them. He became an innovative coral reef advocate and coral reef nursery innovator, not only in the Florida Keys but around the globe. Ken moved to Florida as a boy, he fell in love with the ocean and its many creatures. After earning his degree in Biology from Florida Atlantic University, he headed south to the Keys and never looked back. For more information check out futurefrogmen.org and look for us on social media @futurefrogmen.

This episode of the Blue Earth Podcast is a conversation with Andy McNab. Andy’s youth was in New Zealand, by the ocean, where he frequently surfed and sailed. In 1979, aboard a 36-foot lightweight trimaran, he and some friends departed New Zealand on a five-month sail to San Francisco. Along the way they saw miles of unattended long line buoys. Also, even then, as they sailed through the Southern Pacific Gyre, which is today also known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, there was a remarkable amount of marine debris. Andy’s career is in boat building and yacht construction. He shares personal insights into how the industry’s mindset and practices are changing in order to reduce its environmental impact. From biofouling to construction materials, underwater noise levels to plastic waste, and boat deconstruction and recycling, the yachting industry seems to finally be promoting a more sustainable “cradle-to-grave” mindset. For more information check out futurefrogmen.org and look for @futurefrogmen on social media.

This episode of the Blue Earth Podcast is a conversation with Jill Heinerth, a world famous underwater explorer. Jill’s specialty is cave diving. She photographs, films and writes about her journeys “Into The Planet”. https://www.intotheplanet.com Her awards and recognitions include the William Beebe Award from the Explorers Club, and being the first Explorer in Residence and recipient of the Sir Christopher Ondaatje Medal for Exploration from the Royal Canadian Geographical Society. If you enjoy this episode, click here to check out a different video conversation that we had with Jill.  For more information please subscribe to our newsletter https://www.futurefrogmen.org/connect and look for us on social media @futurefrogmen.

This episode of the Blue Earth Podcast is a conversation with Alexandre Tuel. It’s audio from a previous conversation that our host, Richard Hyman had with Alex. The two met when in 2019, when Alex invited Richard to be the Keynote at MIT Water Night. At that time Alex was the President of the MIT Water Club, and a  PhD Candidate at MIT, studying hydrology, climatology, and water.  Dr. Alex Tuel has graduated and is back in France conducting research.  He discusses how our climate, particularly precipitation, has changed and will continue to change, impacting rainfall in various regions around the globe. For more information please check us out at https://www.futurefrogmen and look for us on social media @futurefrogmen.

This episode of the Blue Earth Podcast is a conversation with Dr. Nicholas Bird. Nick takes us inside the intriguing world of hyperbaric medicine. Essentially born for the treatment of divers’ decompression sickness, today it goes way beyond diving, to treating diabetes, wounds and other ailments. Nick looks at life through a thoughtful lens. His career includes med school at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, being a Major in the U.S. Air Force during Operation Iraqi Freedom and deputy commander of the hyperbaric and wound care center at Travis AFB, and CEO and Chief Medical Officer of Divers Alert Network. For more information subscribe to our newsletter https://www.futurefrogmen.org/connect and look for us on social media @futurefrogmen.

This episode of the Blue Earth Podcast is a conversation with Clay Wilcox. He’s a friend of our podcast host, Richard Hyman, Clay is an accomplished SCUBA diver, U.S. mountain bike champ, commercial aviation pilot, and he’s quite the chef! Get this...as a teenager he spent a summer working in Martha Stewart’s kitchen! It so happened that Clay was mid-way through commercial diving school in New York, when he got a chance to board the famed ocean explorer, Jacques Cousteau’s ship, Calypso…as a fill-in cook. That eventually led to becoming a Cousteau diver. For more information subscribe to our newsletter https://www.futurefrogmen.org/connect and look for us on social media @futurefrogmen.

This episode of the Blue Earth Podcast is a conversation with Brian Adams, President and CEO of the Brain Institute of America. He simplifies an explanation of developing biomarkers for neurological disorders and malignancies of the brain, and ties the risks of BPA and other chemicals found in plastic food containers, bottles and even inside cans. For more information subscribe to our newsletter https://www.futurefrogmen.org/connect and look for us on social media @futurefrogmen.

This episode of the Blue Earth Podcast is a conversation with Richie Kohler. He’s an explorer, technical wreck diver, shipwreck historian, filmmaker, and author. Richie was featured in Robert Kurson’s incredible book “Shadow Divers”. It’s a thrilling true story about Richie and John Chatterton’s quest to identify the wreck of an unknown WWII German U-boat (submarine), 65 miles off the coast of New Jersey. They dedicated six years of their lives attempting to identify the wreck. Richie has traveled the world and explored many deep wrecks, including the Andrea Doria, Titanic, and Britannic. He’s the author of “Mystery of The Last Olympian” about the Britannic. For more information subscribe to our newsletter https://www.futurefrogmen.org/connect and look for us on social media @futurefrogmen.

This episode is a conversation with John St. Augustine, one of America’s top talk radio hosts with over 14,000 episodes and 5,000 guests. He’s an accomplished author, public speaker and environmentalist. Today John’s work includes the Life 2.0 podcast, which can be found on Podbean and wherever you listen. Richard and John had a mutual friend in the deceased gifted songwriter and singer John Denver. John shares stories about Living an Uncommon Life, the title of one of his books. They also discuss “Earth Matters”, including ocean acidification and plastic. The Blue Earth podcast can be found at https://anchor.fm/blueearth or wherever you like to listen. For more information check out futurefrogmen.org and @futurefrogmen on social media.

This episode of Blue Earth is a conversation with Souta Calling Last, The Executive Director of Indigenous Vision and an environmental justice advocate,  Souta is a Native American, of the Blackfeet and Blood tribes. She shares amazing influential stories from when she was a child and how they shaped her commitment to environmental stewardship. Souta has extensive experience in groundwater monitoring, watershed health, and community participatory-based research, and has extensive knowledge about water quality, water treatment and mining contamination clean-up. She believes that land and Indigenous people are inextricably linked, and that sustainable land management must include Indigenous perspectives. Look for more episodes of Blue Earth wherever you get your podcasts.  For information about Future Frogmen check out www.futurefrogmen.org. We're also on most social platforms @futurefrogmen.

That’s how Breezy Grenier describes herself. This episode of Blue Earth is a conversation with Breezy. She’s on the go but we caught up with her just after she got her new 200 ton Captain’s license, and before the Downeast Challenge sailing race from Marblehead, Massachusetts to Boothbay Harbor, Maine. Breezy is a multidisciplinary ocean scientist by education, and also an accomplished mariner, educator and business entrepreneur. A modern day explorer with the ocean being her home, workplace and playground. She shares stories about being at sea, including both the Arctic and the Antarctic, and what it was like aboard NOAA’s Okeanus Explorer. She said that unfortunately she sees plastic most everywhere she goes, even in the middle of the ocean. Look for more episodes of Blue Earth at https://anchor.fm/blueearth or wherever you listen. For information about Future Frogmen check out www.futurefrogmen.org. We're also on most social platforms @futurefrogmen.

This episode of Blue Earth is a conversation with Father Andrea Vicini, S.J. of Boston College. He is Professor of Moral Theology and Professor of Bioethics. He holds numerous degrees including an M.D. from the University of Bologna and a Ph.D. from Boston College. His research interests include moral theology, bioethics, genetics and environmental issues.  Future Frogmen’s President, Richard Hyman, first met Father at Fairfield University, where he lectured on “Saving the Earth: Ethics, Health Care, and the Common Good". Richard was impressed by Father Vicini’s ability to relate to the common man, and his concern for the earth and environmental sustainability. Given today’s humanitarian crisis, and forced migrations as a result of sea level rise and other impacts, we thought it was important to repurpose our 2019 video conversation with Father Vicini, and share it with you on Blue Earth. Our guest host for this episode is Donald M. Kerwin Jr., the Executive Director of the Center for Migration Studies of New York. Mr. Kerwin writes and speaks extensively on immigration policy, refugee protection, access to justice, national security, and other issues. Look for more episodes of Blue Earth at https://anchor.fm/blueearth or wherever you listen. For information about Future Frogmen check out www.futurefrogmen.org. We're also on most social platforms @futurefrogmen.

This episode of Blue Earth features a Southern Connecticut State University Masters student, who pitches a technology-based service that helps kelp farmers. Kelp grows in underwater forests, in shallow oceans, including in this case, Long Island Sound. Future Frogmen hosted this Shark Tank-like event In celebration of 2020’s World Oceans Week. Look for more episodes of Blue Earth at https://anchor.fm/blueearth or wherever you listen, e.g. Apple, Google, Spotify and more. For info on Future Frogmen check out www.futurefrogmen.org, and most social platforms @futurefrogmen.