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Once abundant along the entire west coast of North America, sea otters were hunted to the brink of extinction. A small population has recovered off the coast of central California, yet they have failed to expand their range. Cassandra Brooks interviews Tim Tinker and Jim Estes to find out why visitors at Point Reyes will not likely see California sea otters today.
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The Point Reyes peninsula is considered by some to be one of the fog capitals of the universe. But recent studies have indicated that the fog is declining from the California coast. Cassandra Brooks interviews Mike Vasey and Todd Dawson about how this decline may impact area vegetation and ecosystems.
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Black Abalone is one of seven abalone species found in California's intertidal
waters. But, due to dramatic population declines as a result of overfishing and withering syndrome, Black Abalones have been classified as critically endangered by the IUCN. Cassandra Brooks interviews Amy Henry, an intern looking for Black Abalones in the Golden Gate National Recreation Area and Point Reyes National Seashore. -
Phytoplankton form the base of the ocean's food chains transferring energy from
the sun to sustain the global ocean. These tiny floating plants account for half of
the photosynthetic activity on Earth. They also generate the majority of our fossil
fuels. Cassandra Brooks interviews Ivano Aiello, a geological oceanographer at Moss Landing Marine Laboratories, about how we burn ancient life to power our civilization and some of the issues that result from fossil fuel pollution. -
More than a hundred thousand marine species build their bodies using calcium carbonate. This incredible diversity of life evolved over millions of years, as animals figured out ways to pull calcium and carbonate ions from the water to build shells and skeletons. But all of this is changing. Our addiction to fossil fuels and the billions of tons of carbon dioxide we're pumping into the atmosphere each year may be undoing millions of years of evolution in a geological blink of time.
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Lisa Etherington is the Research Coordinator at the Cordell Bank National Marine Sanctuary, and Dan Howard is the sanctuary’s Superintendent. Listen as they talk about the sanctuary's deep-water corals and how the Sanctuary is trying to preserve this biological wonderland.
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Becca Ryals is a graduate student at the University of California, Berkeley, and Whendee Silver is an ecosystem scientist. Listen as they talk about efforts to sequester carbon dioxide in the soils of wild meadows and rangelands across California.
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Diana Stralberg is an ecologist with PRBO Conservation Science. Listen as she talks about how climate change is affecting the distribution and behavior of California's birds.
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John Dell’Osso is Point Reyes National Seashore's Chief of Interpretation and Sara Hammond is the park's Energy Manager. Listen as they talk about what the Seashore is doing to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions and to become more sustainable.
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UC Davis professor Ted Grosholz and his students have been studying Olympia oysters in Tomales Bay
for more than a decade. Listen as they talk about how they are trying to understand what limits the oyster’s
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Benjamin Wolfe, a graduate student at Harvard, discusses his research on the invasion of Death Cap Mushrooms at Point Reyes.
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Scot Anderson, a local Great White Shark researcher, describes new findings from his and his colleagues tagging research off Point Reyes National Seashore.
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Dr. Frank Schwing, an oceanographer with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, shares his findings about how climate change has been affecting the California Current and the ecosytem that depends on it.
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Dr. Frank Schwing, an oceanographer with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, shares his findings about how climate change has been affecting the California Current and the ecosytem that depends on it.
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Join a team of researchers as they search for the Humboldt Squid to learn why they have moved to the northeast Pacific and what effect they might have on the local ecosystem.
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Meet the Tidewater Goby, one of the most endangered fish in the Point Reyes National Seashore region. Learn about current efforts to restore Tidewater Goby populations.
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Join a team of researchers as they round up young seals in Tomales Bay and learn more about the animals that call this sanctuary home.
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Join park scientists and rangers at the Bay Model in Sausalito for a veritable buffet of park science projects in the San Francisco Bay Area Network of national parks.
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Join the search for one of the ocean’s great hunters--the white shark. In this episode, we join a team of shark researchers off the tip of Tomales Point as they study this mysterious predator.
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Can Liam Reidy find evidence for a huge tsunami in central California? In this episode, we paddle to the middle of Abbotts Lagoon to hunt for evidence of the Cascadia earthquake paleotsunami of 1700 in the lagoon mud.
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