January 2021

In this episode of Changing Waters, Global Ocean Health’s Julia Sanders interviews Dr. Lisa Levin. From Scripps Institute of Oceanography, Dr. Levin studies deep sea and coastal deoxygenation, including taking deep sea videos of oxygen minimum zones. She discusses her work, as well as a recent op-ed she co-wrote in The Ecologist, which talks about tackling climate change via the United Nations/Paris Agreement. Julia and Dr. Levin also share their experiences at COP21, where the Paris Agreement was signed.

January 2021

After decades of legal and political wrangling, four dams on the Klamath River are now set for removal, reopening the river for restoration of salmon runs that were nearly destroyed— along with the people who depend on them. The innovative public-private financing that made this possible could be a model for future restoration efforts along the West Coast. Glen Spain, a leader in restoration effort on behalf of salmon fishermen, recounts the long struggle in this interview with cohost Brad Warren.

January 2021

Damming the Columbia River may have electrified the Pacific Northwest, but it also turned the world’s greatest salmon producing river into a series of sun-heated slackwater pools—hot enough to kill salmon at both ends of their epic migration. Glen Spain, a veteran leader of West Coast fishermen’s efforts to protect their livelihood from environmental harm, updates us on recent progress in the decades-long struggle to force improvements in dam operations and give the fish a better chance.

Glen Spain is the Northwest Regional Director and Salmon Protection Program Director for Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen’s Associations (PCFFA) and the Institute for Fisheries Resources (IFR) at their joint Eugene, OR office. He has been a vocal advocate for better watershed and riparian protections on both private and public lands, and currently serves on advisory committees to the Board of Forestry in both California and Oregon. He works as an advocate for sustainable aquatic resource use and the protection and recovery of salmon throughout northern California and the Pacific Northwest. He lectures widely on forestry/fishery and marine resource protection issues throughout the Pacific Northwest and elsewhere. He is also the recipient of the 1993 David Simmons Award for Environmental Vision from the Oregon Natural Resources Council, Oregon’s largest and most effective environmental protection organization. Glen received his law degree from San Francisco State University.