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Matt Martin

Podcast Producer

About

Matt Martin is a podcast producer who has worked on many different show for KUOW. He pitched and created THE WILD with Chris Morgan, a rich and experiential podcast about ecology and conservation. Matt also produced the Seattle music history podcast Let the Kids Dance and the award-winning Ghost Herd. Before moving to the on-demand side of the station, Matt worked as a producer on The Record, KUOW's local news show. He has also worked as a general assignment reporter and host for public radio stations in upstate New York and rural Alaska. Matt got his start in media as an intern with StoryCorps and Aljazeera America.

Location: Seattle

Languages: English

Pronouns: he/him

Podcasts

Stories

  • caption: Eba getting a close up view of orca in Puget Sound. Orca poop will float for up to 30 minutes. That is how Eba is able to smell it on the surface of the water.

    The power of poop

    I take a look at three ways biologists are using scat to understand and protect wildlife, including poop parties, a dog on a boat, and an international crime fighter.
  • caption: Mike Sheldon, a wildlife technician with the Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe, prepares to use a dart gun to tranquilize Moses, a 6.5 or 7-year-old male cougar, on Wednesday, January 29, 2020, on the Olympic Peninsula.

    So you caught a cougar, now what?

    I visit a prison on the Olympic Peninsula where incarcerated individuals catalog wildlife videos for local biologists.
  • caption: Houndsman Greg Jones, left, and Chris Morgan, host of The Wild, right, hike after an attempted cougar capture mission of Bramble, a 3-year-old female cougar, on Tuesday, January 14, 2020, on the Olympic Peninsula.

    How to catch a cougar

    I meet biologists who can track multiple cougars in the forest, thanks to some special collars, GPS, and the click of a mouse.
  • caption: A performance by Children of the Setting Sun.

    The ancient wild

    The "salmon people" have lived on the Pacific Coast for more than 10,000 years. Through their long history, stories have been their lifeblood.
  • caption: Teton, a 10-week-old Karelian bear dog, waits for his handler, Nils Pederson, at the final "find" during a field-test. The "find" is a taxidermied bear.

    The wildlife super dog

    I meet an adorable puppy that may be the key to saving bears and people.
  • caption: Michael McHenry, right, a fish habitat manager with the Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe operates an electrofisher as Martin Liermann, a statistician and fish ecologist with the watershed program follows to put the fish into a bucket before measuring and weighing them, on Wednesday, September 4, 2019, along the Brannon side channel on the Elwha River near Port Angeles.

    A river runs through it ... once again

    Almost 30 years after an act of Congress called for the Elwha dams to come down, the ecosystem is recovering. Species are returning and staying.