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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.

  • 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.
  • Sea Change Live: Music & the Wetlands with Louis Michot and Special Guests
    Carlyle Calhoun
    Sea Change hosted a live event at the New Orleans Jazz Museum. The evening featured a concert with Louis Michot and special guests, and a fascinating conversation with musicians and scientists about the future of coastal Louisiana.
  • A scientist studies a coral reef in the US Virgin Islands.
    Predicting the Ocean's Future
    Carlyle Calhoun
    What can the fascinating field of ocean forecasting tell us about the future for us on land and for life under the sea?
  • Isle de Jean Charles is now a sliver of an island in Southeast Louisiana. Over the last 7 decades, the island has lost 98% of its land.
    Leaving the Island
    Carlyle Calhoun
    Isle de Jean Charles has lost 98% of its land over the last 7 decades. Leaving the Island investigates the first-ever federal attempt to relocate an entire community - the mostly Indigenous residents of Isle de Jean Charles, Louisiana - because of climate change.
  • The blue water off of Florida's Gulf Coast. Understanding how the power of water makes us healthier and happier is a growing field of research.
    Keep Expanding Your Blue Mind
    Carlyle Calhoun
    We're diving into our human connection to oceans...why does being around water make us feel so good?
  • Chadwick and Vergie Encalade live in Pointe a la Hache, Louisiana. People in this small town are facing the highest expected increase in flood insurance rates in the entire country. Average premiums could rise over a thousand percent, from an average of $673 per year to $8,058.
    Rising Water, Rising Risk
    Carlyle Calhoun
    More and more Americans face the threat of flooding. And as a country, we are woefully unprepared. FEMA's National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) sells about 90% of the nation's flood insurance policies, but only a small percentage of Americans are covered. In an effort to account for climate change, expand coverage, and make the NFIP more "fair," FEMA recently overhauled its flood insurance program. It's called Risk Rating 2.0, and the sweeping changes are proving to be highly controversial.
  • One home in Louisiana has been elevated 18 feet, FEMA's base flood elevation in Pointe a la Hache, Louisiana. Another still sits barely off the ground. Residents tell Sea Change that FEMA's 50% Rule is causing stress, and even forcing people to leave their homes.
    Elevate or Relocate: FEMA's Dreaded Rule
    Carlyle Calhoun
    Flooding is the most common natural disaster — by far. As more and more towns are devastated by floods, people are facing the tough question of how to rebuild — or even if they can. In this episode, we travel to two towns to discover how one obscure federal policy designed to stop the cycle of flood damage is leading to opposite destinies.
  • John Allaire lives next door to the massive Calcasieu Pass LNG export facility. He is fighting against the proposed expansion of LNG terminals across the Gulf Coast.
    All Gassed Up - 1 Hour Special
    Carlyle Calhoun
    A 1-hour special investigation into LNG. This deeply-reported, globetrotting program follows American gas around the world.
  • Calcasieu Pass LNG is an enormous export terminal in rural Cameron Parish. Large swaths of wetlands are being destroyed in places like Cameron Parish in order to construct these new industrial facilities.
    The Bridge to Nowhere
    Halle Parker
    Today on Sea Change, we talk with Dr. Robert Howarth of Cornell University to talk about his groundbreaking LNG study and how it could shape the future of American energy policy.
  • Lights, Camera, Action: Climate Change in Hollywood
    Carlyle Calhoun
    Hollywood has been cold on climate change, mostly relegating the issue to documentaries. We talk to two people who are trying to change that.