One Lagoon, One Voice Podcast
Episode 33: How Reconnecting Isolated Wetlands Is Improving IRL Habitats and Ecosystems
Florida's mosquito control districts built earthen dikes around coastal wetlands starting in the mid-1950s. Flooding marshes with water interrupted the breeding cycle of salt marsh mosquitoes, which lay eggs on moist — but not wet...
Episode 32: Invisible Infrastructure: How Baffle Boxes Filter Stormwater Before It Reaches the Lagoon
Every time it rains, stormwater carries trash, sediment, nitrogen and phosphorus into the Indian River Lagoon (IRL). But underground sits a growing network of concrete boxes that most Floridians will never notice. Those boxes are...
Episode 31: What Fish Populations Are Telling Us About the IRL’s Health
Every fishing regulation in Florida (every bag limit, every closed season) traces back to data. Biologists at the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) have been collecting it in the Indian River Lagoon (IRL)...
Episode 30: Seeds of Recovery: A Hidden Seed Bank Bringing Seagrass Back to the Indian River Lagoon
For over a decade, persistent algal blooms clouded the Indian River Lagoon (IRL), blocking the sunlight seagrass needs to survive. Since 2011, that loss has rippled through the food web: fewer fish, fewer manatees, a...
Episode 29: What Dolphins Are Telling Us About the Indian River Lagoon’s Recovery
About 1,000 bottlenose dolphins call the Indian River Lagoon (IRL) home for most of their lives. Researchers have tracked this resident population for 18 years, photo-identifying around 2,000 individual dolphins, and know many by name....
Episode 27: Art and Creativity Inspired by the Indian River Lagoon
This episode of One Lagoon, One Voice explores how music, dance, and storytelling can turn environmental education into an unforgettable experience. Host Heather Stapleton is joined by Adam Schnell, Artistic Director of Ballet Vero Beach,...
Episode 26: NOAA and the IRLNEP: Partnering on Transformational Habitat Restoration in the IRL
The Indian River Lagoon is a biodiversity hot spot with over 4,000 documented species but decades of habitat loss, pollution, and climate change have taken a toll. With 89% of its seagrass cover reduced since...
Episode 25: In the Zone: How Buffer Zones Are Helping to Prevent Pollution in the Lagoon
In this episode of the One Lagoon Podcast, Heather Stapleton sits down with two passionate conservation leaders — Tori Wilcock, Buffer Zone Coordinator with Brevard Zoo’s Restore Our Shores, and Bill DeLuccia, with the Space...
