Teach Me About the Great Lakes

In this episode, Stuart and Natty talk with Dr. Sarah Balgooyen of PFAS@Mines at the Colorado School of Mines about her team's surprisingly good news: PFAS levels in Great Lakes fish have been declining since the mid-2000s. They get into how you actually find that out — freeze-drying and blending 50-year-old lake trout pulled out of an EPA freezer. PLUS: a New Yorker cartoon pitch!

Warren Dunes State Park, Michigan
Bob's Atomic Burgers, Golden, CO
Sarah's paper — Journal of Great Lakes Research
PFAS@Mines research group
EPA Great Lakes Fish Monitoring and Surveillance Program
iiseagrant.org

Creators and Guests

Host
Natty Morrison
Host
Stuart Carlton
Stuart Carlton is the Director of the Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant College Program.

What is Teach Me About the Great Lakes?

A monthly podcast in which Stuart Carlton (a native New Orleanian) asks smart people to teach him about the Great Lakes. Co-hosted by the awesome staff at Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant.