On the subject of the most important radio debuts of 2024, the numbers converse for themselves. Florida Sea Grant’s Marine Science Minute was listened to 3 million instances throughout choose Florida radio stations, delivering one-minute public service bulletins every week to spice up marine and coastal schooling and spark curiosity about Florida Sea Grant’s sources.
Marine Science Minute (MSM) is a collaboration among the many Florida Sea Grant staff. The sequence was created by Dr. Savanna Barry and developed by a staff of FSG Extension Brokers members of the Shoreline, Estuarine and Aquatic Methods (SEAS) work motion group. With the assist of the FSG Communications division, the staff outlined, scripted, recorded, and produced 52 one-minute spots in early 2024, together with creation of authentic music, promotional brand, and accompanying web site with episode pages for every spot.
In April 2025, Marine Science Minute obtained the 2025 Affiliation of Pure Assets Extension Professionals (ANREP) award in Podcast and Radio – incomes a Gold Stage, which is the very best in its class.
ANREP is a nationwide affiliation for Cooperative Extension Service professionals in environmental fields. The award acknowledges important achievement inside Extension professionals round the USA, and expands using prime quality, progressive supplies and packages by honoring the excellent members and companions who developed them.
“It’s greater than a radio phase,” says Carolyn Kovacs, Florida Sea Grant Extension Agent for Flager & Volusia Counties. “We’re educating listeners with info that’s fascinating and related, reminiscent of proper whales throughout migration season, or hurricane preparedness, and we’re additionally bringing consciousness of FSG sources that Florida residents can be taught and profit from.”
Marine Science Minute’s success is painted largely by its excellent viewership. MSM primarily aired on WUFT FM in 2024, an NPR-affiliate radio station within the Gainesville-Ocala space. MSM aired throughout Morning Version and in complete, the spots aired between April-December 2024 have been heard stay 178,500 instances.
Along with WUFT FM, Marine Science Minute was aired as soon as an hour on Surf 97.3 FM radio, an area non-profit radio in Flagler County and a service of Save the Surf, Inc. The radio’s mission aligns with Florida Sea Grant in educating and bringing group consciousness in saving the shoreline, ocean, waterways and its sources. Contemplating the frequency of theI radio spots, Marine Science Minute would have been heard 3,300,000 instances on the Surf 97.3 FM listening space.
In 2024, the Florida Sea Grant homepage obtained virtually double the variety of customers and greater than triple the variety of internet classes compared to the identical interval in 2023. Whereas it’s not possible to find out the share of this elevated internet visitors that’s attributable to MSM, this means that MSM was possible profitable in its purpose of accelerating consciousness and engagement with Florida.
For 2025, Marine Science Minute will probably be increasing its broadcast to extra coastal areas of the state together with NPR’s WFIT 89.5 FM within the Area Coast and WZIG 104.1 FM, an area non-profit radio station in Pasco County.
“It’s nice to have one thing you’ve labored on have a statewide attain, particularly when your typical work is on the county stage. Marine Science Minute is a testomony to the broad attain and impacts generated from working collectively ” says Kovacs.
Tune into Marine Science Minute on NPR’s WFIT on Mondays at 5:18pm.
Florida Sea Grant Marine Science Minute staff.
