59: They Opened the Eyes of People

Stuart and Renie discuss the lifes of Monty and Rose, Chicago's piping plover power couple, with Tamima Itani.
Sorry that this one's kind of a downer, but we maybe it's ultimately hopeful?!

Links:
TMATGL 39: Cottonballs with Toothpick Legs
TMATGL 40: DNA from the Cheeks
Tamima's Plovermother website & books
Sun-Times article on Imani
Meet Nish and Nellie, Ohio's First Nesting Piping Plovers In 83 Years
Libanais Chicago

Credits:
Host & Executive Producer: Stuart Carlton
Co-Host: Renie Miles
Producers: Hope Charters, Carolyn Foley, Megan Gunn, & Irene Miles
Associate Producer: Ethan Chitty
Edited by: Quinn Rose
Podcast art by: Joel Davenport
Music by: Stuart Carlton

Creators and Guests

Stuart Carlton
Host
Stuart Carlton
Stuart Carlton is the Assistant Director of the Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant College Program. He manages the day-to-day operation of IISG and works with the IISG Director and staff to coordinate all aspects of the program. He is also a Research Assistant Professor and head of the Coastal and Great Lakes Social Science Lab in the Department of Forestry & Natural Resources at Purdue, where he and his students research the relationship between knowledge, values, trust, and behavior in complex or controversial environmental systems.