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Carlyle Calhoun

Executive Podcast Producer

Carlyle Calhoun is the managing producer of Sea Change.

Before joining WWNO, she produced environmental documentary films and audio documentaries. Carlyle began her career as a newspaper photographer at the Jackson Hole News & Guide and the Wilmington Star-News and later as a freelance photographer based in Croatia and Bosnia. Her work has been featured in publications including The New York Times, The Washington Post and National Geographic Adventure, and in films screened at festivals across the country.

A North Carolina native, she is happy to call New Orleans home. You can find her searching out the best local seafood, hanging by the bayou or riding her bike around town. You can reach her at carlyle@wwno.org.

  • Canals created for navigation and oil and gas pipelines cut through the marsh off the coast of Louisiana, seen in 2010.
    Coastal Desk
    Wetlands Radio: Part 3
    Carlyle Calhoun, Eve Abrams
    Oil and gas canals. You’ve likely heard about the canals—tens of thousands of them, ever-widening, shredding the wetlands. The canals are what some scientists say is Louisiana’s major cause of land loss. In Part 3 of our collaboration with Wetlands Radio, we explore the impact of canals, why industry has gotten away with the damage, and what's being done about it now.
  • Ritchie Blink leads a tour through Neptune Pass, a natural crevasse developed between 2019 and 2021 on the east bank of the Mississippi River. River sediment now traveling through the channel is building one of the largest new deltas in North America.
    Wetlands Radio: Part 2
    Carlyle Calhoun, Eve Abrams
    In Part 2, we will discuss building land, a vital part of coastal restoration, and often a highly controversial one. We delve into the thorny politics of human-led land-building projects, but first, we examine how the river builds land when left to its own devices. A process many are trying to imitate.
  • Louisiana has millions of acres of coastal wetlands. There is an ongoing, massive effort to save them. Pictured here is a canal dug through the wetlands by oil and gas companies in Jean Lafitte National Park’s Barataria Preserve.
    Wetlands Radio: Part One
    Carlyle Calhoun, Eve Abrams
    Louisiana is a world leader in coastal restoration. Many would even say number one. The media is full of stories about the coastal land loss crisis in Louisiana, the dire predictions of climate change and sea level rise, and polarizing accounts of controversial projects, but what is also true is that Louisiana is making tremendous strides in piecing this ragged shoreline back together little by little.
  • The Loop Current is a powerful ocean current that significantly impacts weather patterns, hurricanes, fisheries, and sea level rise. Despite its importance, it remains little understood. Scientists have joined forces in a huge research collaboration called Understanding Gulf Ocean Systems, or UGOS, to change that.
    Understanding the Mysterious Loop Current
    Carlyle Calhoun
    The amazing science behind understanding mysterious but critical ocean currents. And specifically, understanding the current in our backyard, the Gulf’s Loop Current.
  • Jason Pitre holds one of his Bayou Rosa oysters. As the wild oyster harvest has suffered on the Gulf Coast over the past couple of decades, more and more people like Jason have turned to farming oysters.
    Coastal Desk
    Farming the Ocean: Part 2
    Boyce Upholt, Food and Environment Reporting Network, Carlyle Calhoun
    The Gulf is one of the LAST places in the world where there is still a major wild oyster harvest. Lately, though, that harvest…is in trouble. In this episode, we ask: What can the oyster's downfall and resurrection tell us about a future of farming the ocean?
  • Ocean Era's offshore fish farm in Hawaii. Ocean Era has proposed what could be the first fish farm in U.S. federal waters, off the coast of Sarastota Florida.
    Coastal Desk
    Farming the Ocean: Part 1
    Carlyle Calhoun, Boyce Upholt, Food and Environment Reporting Network
    Part 1 of a 2-part series exploring the future of farming seafood in the Gulf. There’s a growing global movement to farm more and more of our seafood. Currently, proposals are being considered to establish massive fish farms in U.S. federal waters. The most likely first home to these new farms is the Gulf.
  • Matthew Weigel, Biologist Director at the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries, documents Kemp's Ridley nests on the Chandeleur Islands, where the turtles have returned after 75 years.
    Coastal Desk
    Classic Episode: Riddle of the Kemp's Ridley Sea Turtle (and sea turtle update!)
    Carlyle Calhoun
    The smallest and most endangered of sea turtles, the Kemp's Ridleys, have returned to Louisiana's Chandeleur Islands after 75 years.
  • Buddy Blalock stands on the porch of his amphibious home in Old River Landing.
    Coastal Desk
    No Matter the Water
    Carlyle Calhoun
    What does it take to stay rooted on the Gulf Coast, even as the land and weather change around us? We meet individuals, from a poet to a minister to a computer programmer, each finding their own creative ways to adapt and fight for the future of their communities.
  • A fisherman on the F/V Avenger sets lines for red snapper, miles out from Galveston's historic Wharf Road Port. The fishery nearly collapsed under previous management models, but when catch shares were voted in in the early 2000's, had a complete rebound.
    The Quiet Revolution Saving Fish and Fishermen
    Michael McEwen, Carlyle Calhoun
    There was a time back in the 1980s when overfishing had decimated popular fish like red snapper and grouper in the Gulf. Today, we hear the remarkable success story of how unlikely partners joined forces to save an industry and an ecosystem through a controversial program called catch shares.
  • The Hughes Glomar Explorer was a deep-sea ship built for the secret 1974 effort by the United States Central Intelligence Agency to recover a Soviet submarine. The cover was that it was a deep-sea mining mission.
    The Trojan Seahorse
    Carlyle Calhoun, Eva Tesfaye, Daniel Ackerman
    Today, we’re bringing you a wild story. It’s about a covert ocean adventure from back in the Cold War days that inadvertently set off a brand new industry. And it’s an industry that’s been in the news a lot lately: deep-sea mining.