In this episode: Marine biologist Adina Payton talks about her research and why the sea is ever changing. The poet Nina Mingya Powles reads for us from her Essay "Small Bodies of Water". Year-round swimmer Louise Horvath shares some beauties of winter swimming. The freshwater ecologist and artist Christina Gruber talks about the regulation of rivers, why we need to protect sturgeons and why she plunges microphones into water.

Cited works:

Rachel Carson: The Sea Around Us (1951) Robert Kunzig: Mapping the deep (2000) Gaston Bachelard: L'Eau et les Rêves (1942)