In this episode, we welcome Ethan Theuerkauf, a coastal geomorphologist in the Department of Geography, Environment, and Spatial Sciences at Michigan State University. Dr. Theuerkauf’s research focuses on how and why coastal landscapes, such as beaches, barrier islands, and wetlands, change across timescales ranging from storms to millennia.

We also discuss the 50th anniversary of the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, a cargo ship that sank in Lake Superior during a violent storm on November 10, 1975, near Whitefish Point, Michigan. The wreck resulted in the deaths of all 29 crew members on board.

If you would like to learn more about the research that Dr. Theuerkauf and his team conduct in the Great Lakes, visit his lab website at www.coastalgeomorphology.com.

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