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We Answer Your Questions About the Causes and Effects of Harmful Algal Blooms

Boat Wake Through Harmful Algal Bloom
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Boat Wake Through Harmful Algal Bloom

Since early this summer, WGCU has been covering the blossoming algae crisis along southwest Florida coasts, canals and rivers. Social media is filled with citizen journalists documenting what they’re seeing, hearing, and fearing. There are so many angles to these stories, and so many overlapping issues that a chorus of questions surround every discussion. So, for the past week we’ve asked our listeners for their questions, comments, and proposed solutions, and the response has been overwhelming.

 

We’ve been inundated with comments and questions, and today we’re going to try to answer as many of them as possible with our panel of guests. We're joined in studio by Rae Ann Wessel, Natural Resource Policy Director at the Sanibel Captiva Conservation Foundation; Amy Bennett Williams, environmental reporter and storyteller for the News Press; Dr. Patrick Reidywith Florida Gulf Coast Ear, Nose & Throat; and Dr. Vince Lovko, Staff Scientist and Program Manager of the Phytoplankton Ecology program at Mote Marine Laboratory.

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Julie Glenn is the host of Gulf Coast Live. She has been working in southwest Florida as a freelance writer since 2007, most recently as a regular columnist for the Naples Daily News. She began her broadcasting career in 1993 as a reporter/anchor/producer for a local CBS affiliate in Quincy, Illinois. After also working for the NBC affiliate, she decided to move to Parma, Italy where she earned her Master’s degree in communication from the University of Gastronomic Sciences. Her undergraduate degree in Mass Communication is from the University of Missouri at Kansas City.
Mike Kiniry is producer of Gulf Coast Live, and co-creator and host of the WGCU podcast Three Song Stories: Biography Through Music. He first joined the WGCU team in the summer of 2003 as an intern while studying Communication at Florida Gulf Coast University.