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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.

  • 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
    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
    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.
  • James Thomas, a structure leader at the Southeast Louisiana Flood Protection Authority-East, closes the Lake Borne Surge Barrier gates as a demonstration on June 11, 2024.
    Coastal Desk
    The Next Big One: Are We Prepared?
    Carlyle Calhoun
    Today, we bring you three stories exploring what it really takes to be ready for the next big storm. But at their core, these stories are about something deeper: the determination to keep living here on the Gulf Coast, and about the choices we’re making that will decide whether that’s possible.
  • A brass band plays in celebration of the return of Amtrak's passenger rail service to the Gulf Coast.
    A Train Ride Through Katrina's Legacy
    Stephan Bisaha
    For the first time since Hurricane Katrina made landfall 20 years ago, you can take a train ride across the Gulf Coast, from Mobile to New Orleans.
  • Sea Change hosted a live event at the Broadside to commemorate 20 years since Hurricane Katrina. A panel including Congressman Troy Carter, climate justice organizer Colette Pichon Battle, scientist Josh Lewis, and architect David Waggoner joined Sea Change Executive Producer, Carlyle Calhoun, to reflect on the lessons learned and look to the future: where do we go from here, and how can we not only survive on the Gulf Coast, but thrive.
    Katrina 20
    Sea Change Live! 20 Years After Katrina
    Carlyle Calhoun
    Two decades after Hurricane Katrina and its devastating aftermath reshaped New Orleans and the Gulf Coast, we gathered to remember all that was lost, reflect on the lessons learned, and pay tribute to all the good that has been done in the two decades since. And, we look to the future: where do we go from here, and how can this region not just survive but thrive?
  • The tiny fishing village of El Bosque, Mexico, is vanishing into the Gulf because of rapid coastal erosion. Guadalupe Cobos describes how quickly her neighbors have had to flee the encroaching waves.
    Coastal Desk
    The Unlikely Hero of El Bosque
    Alvaro Céspedes
    El Bosque, Mexico, a tiny fishing village on Mexico’s Gulf Coast, is quickly vanishing into the sea. In this episode, we journey to El Bosque to meet the town’s most unlikely hero—one person determined to fight for a future as her neighbors flee the encroaching waves.
  • Juvenile bull sharks are increasing in numbers in the Gulf.
    Coastal Desk
    Some Like It Hot, Especially Bull Sharks
    Carlyle Calhoun
    Climate change is bad news for almost everyone. Emphasis on almost, because believe it or not, one marine species is absolutely thriving as the Gulf warms: Bull sharks!
  • Scientists from Louisiana State University and the Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium (LUMCON) aboard the Research Vessel Pelican are collecting data to measure the size of the Gulf's dead zone in the summer of 2024. The results found the dead zone, a low-oxygen area caused primarily by the over-application of synthetic fertilizer on Midwest farms, was approximately 6,705 square miles. In order to survive, fish, shrimp, and other species need to flee an area the size of New Jersey.
    Coastal Desk
    The True Cost of Fertilizer
    Carlyle Calhoun
    This is the story of modern fertilizer, and how this powerful concoction of chemicals has radically reshaped how we farm and what we eat. In this episode, we follow the journey of fertilizer from Louisiana to the Midwest, then back down along the Mississippi River to a place it creates in the Gulf. A place called: The Dead Zone.