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
Stories
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Environment
Coral reefs: a biological symphony being silenced
A common misunderstanding about the sea is that it is silent down there, a quiet world beneath the waves, but it actually couldn't be further from the truth. The coral reef is the noisiest ecosystem in the sea.
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Environment
Nuclear sea otters: A wildlife refugee story
Fifty years later, we checked in on a rescue mission to save sea otters from nuclear annihilation and recolonize them along the west coast of North America.
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Environment
Happy 46th Birthday! An Earth Day message from Chris
An Earth Day message from Chris
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Environment
The Cougar Conundrum
How we are sharing the world with a successful predator
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Environment
True grit: the wild wolverine
For the first time in 100 years, wolverines are back in Mount Rainier National Park. How did they get there?
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Environment
The Comeback Cat: Spain’s Iberian lynx
How did what used to be the rarest cat on earth leap a staggering 1000% in number in just 20 years?
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Environment
How to love a shark
There are 540 shark species in the world and 143 of them are endangered. Rachel Graham is their evangelist.
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Environment
The secret lives of giraffes and the woman who studied them
Anne Innis Dagg had a curiosity and love for giraffes that took her to South Africa in the 1950s. Little was known about them in western science at the time. Anne would change that.
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Environment
Goodbye chemical weapons, hello burrowing owls
A decommissioned military base in northeast Oregon provides sanctuary for a recovering burrowing owl population.
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Environment
Portugal’s ecological utopia
A curious story of fires, Stone Age art, rural abandonment, and a mission to bring back an entire forest ecosystem.