Greta Mart

Public Radio News Director/Audio Journalist/Digital Editor

California/Washington/Alaska

Greta Mart

Public Radio News Director/Audio Journalist/Digital Editor

California/Washington/Alaska

Climate costs
California is vast, made up of forests of towering giants, miles and miles of sprawling farmland, deserts teeming with life, and our vibrant and ever-changing coastline. People have built lives here intimately tied to the land. But those lives, and that l
KVPR | Valley Public Radio
Vineyard managers eyeing coming freeze
As California gets a break this weekend from months of serial rainstorms, unusually cold temperatures are descending over the state’s famed wine country. As Greta Mart from member station KRCB reports, grape growers are concerned the frost could damage th
Northern California Public Media
Nascent California offshore wind industry looks to new port in Humboldt Bay
In less than a decade, the idea of harnessing the wind's energy over the Pacific ocean to generate electricity has gone from abstraction to action. Off the coast of California, there are three general areas where scientists say the wind blows strong enoug
Northern California Public Media
SoCo Artistry: Revisiting the radio play in Cloverdale
Now for the next installment in our ongoing series on Sonoma County arts and artistry. Exactly 20 years ago, KRCB News Director Greta Mart was working for the San Francisco theatrical institution "Beach Blanket Babylon." So was Cloverdale's Christopher Ne
Northern California Public Media
Did a Sonoma County deputy OD from touching fentanyl? Experts say no
The Sonoma County Sheriff’s Office says one of its deputies recently needed the opioid overdose-reversing drug known as Narcan, after handling fentanyl at a Santa Rosa gas station. A month later, details remain vague as the office says the incident is sti
Northern California Public Media
Demanding better conditions for captive marine mammals
Tokitae at the Miami Seaquarium. The recent death of an orca whale held in captivity in Florida for more than five decades has invigorated calls to release other marine mammals – including Corky – an orca at San Diego’s SeaWorld. At the same time, some Ca
Northern California Public Media
CA State Parks to work on finalizing Oceano Dunes work plan
January 24 is the deadline to submit public comment on a draft long-term plan by California State Parks for Pismo State Beach and Oceano Dunes State Vehicular Recreation Area (ODSVRA). Part of the plan calls for development of the Oso Flaco Lake Natural Area. State Parks is proposing to pave the area and create a new campground for RVs, cabins and tents, but many Central Coast residents are against it.
KCBX
Alaskan Port Town Reacts To Shell's Arctic Exit
The news that Royal Dutch Shell was abandoning its quest for oil in the Arctic Ocean came as a shock in Unalaska and around the state. Local officials said the move won’t hit the city’s budget too hard. But Unalaskan companies doing business with Shell are scrambling to figure out what it will mean for them.
KUCB
Man-made earthquakes: Fact or fiction?
Scientists have known for a long time that humans can cause earthquakes, especially when we mess around with underground faults. The most dramatic example of this now can be found in the American Midwest. Oklahoma has always had earthquakes, but they used to be rather rare – about one or two a year that people could feel.
Center for Investigative Reporting
Views wanted on plan for offshore wind farms along San Luis Obispo County's coast
A public comment period ends Monday night at midnight on plans to lease areas off California’s coast to wind energy development. Proposed for areas of the ocean roughly 20 to 30 miles offshore, the wind farms would consist of dozens of connected floating turbines generating electricity, conveyed to shore—and the energy grid—via a seafloor cable.
KCBX
Competing plans afoot for offshore utility-scale wind farm
In December the federal agency that decides what kind of energy development takes place in our nation’s coastal waters issued a guidebook to understanding how renewable energy projects get approved and built. It’s a wonky topic of particular interest to the Central Coast, as firms jockey to build an offshore wind farm near Morro Bay.
KCBX
San Luis Obispo moves forward on bike-share pilot program
San Luis Obispo is one step closer to joining Santa Barbara and Santa Cruz in creating a bike-share program. The San Luis Obispo city council this week gave the go ahead for the creation of a pilot program, but it's not expected to start until the fall of 2020 or even the spring of 2021. At the end, most council members expressed cautious optimism that a bike-share program could work in the city.
KCBX
Discovering a passion for nature through scientific field studies at Paso Robles High School
October 4 is the application deadline for Paso Robles High School students. That’s if they want to take part in an upcoming trip to Santa Cruz Island, one of the Channel Islands. The trip is part of a Paso High program called the Fields Studies Collaborative. The FSC brings students to unique places to conduct real-world research and learn from the environment, and from each other.
KCBX
New Styrofoam ban to take effect across SLO County next spring
Products made out of polystyrene and expanded polystyrene (EPS)—commonly known as Styrofoam—will soon be prohibited in all of San Luis Obispo County. A years-long effort by many to pass a countywide ordinance aimed at stopping the use of polystyrene ended Wednesday. The ban will go into effect in six months.
KCBX
Issues & Ideas: Military recruitment at high schools, eviction and a plan for a local WWII memorial
On this week’s Issues & Ideas: Truth in Recruitment is a student advocacy group working to reduce the presence of military recruiters on high school campuses. We hear the group's concerns and what they are doing to expand access to information about post-high school options for teens. We also hear the perspectives of a Santa Maria Joint Unified School District administrator, and the U.S.
KCBX
California halts new fracking permits
California Governor Gavin Newsom's administration has announced the state will issue no new fracking permits for oil companies. The California Department of Conservation says in the interest of public health and safety it will issue no new permits for companies that would use high-pressure steam to break oil formations below ground.
KCBX

About

Greta Mart

Greta is currently the news director at Northern California Public Media/KRCB, the NPR-member station covering California's Sonoma County and North San Francisco Bay. She leads a newsroom of two full-time staff reporters, freelancers and interns; shares on-air hosting duties for ‘All Things Considered;’ is an active participant in the California Newsroom and a regular contributor to KQED's 'The California Report' and NPR newscasts.

From 2016 to 2021, Greta was news director at KCBX, covering California's Central Coast---Salinas to Santa Barbara. There she produced and delivered the nightly newscasts, interviewed newsmakers for and produced a weekly hour-long news magazine, managed a small station newsroom of staff reporters, producers and an active internship program, and forged new partnerships with area and statewide news outlets.

Greta cut her audio journalism teeth at KUCB in Unalaska, Alaska, covering the Aleutian Islands, KCAW in Sitka and KHNS in Haines, Alaska. In May 2015, Greta earned a master's degree from the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. Before that she was a newspaper reporter in CA and WA for over a decade.

Port Townsend, WA is her hometown and she spends part of the week as a liveaboard on her sailboat at the Berkeley Marina.