Your Host Mari Ana Trench, hard at work researching her next episode.
Welcome to The Littoral Zone
The Littoral Zone—that dynamic strip of shore between high and low tide—is where ocean meets land, the ecosystem thrives, and curiosity washes up with every wave. And not only the ocean-our diverse ecology in the North Coast offers a bounty of interesting animals, foliage, and phenomenons specific to our area.
Mari has been wandering the North Oregon Coast for over a decade, and her daily walks have left her with an impressive collection of questions: What made these tracks? Why is this crab walking sideways AND backward? Is that seaweed or something's discarded lunch?
Here's the thing: Mari is absolutely not a marine biologist. She's not a scientist. She has zero formal qualifications to teach anyone about ecosystems, coastal ecology, or why barnacles are so unreasonably hard to remove from rocks.
What she is:
hopelessly curious, enthusiastically confused, and armed with just enough knowledge to be dangerous.
Join her as she explores the Pacific Northwest Coast—asking questions, Googling things at 2 AM, and deep-diving into all that is fascinating about the Upper West Side of the United States.
(in 5 minutes or less).
The tide's coming in. Let's see what it brings.