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San Francisco Bay Area National Parks presents a collection on an array of environmentally-focused topics. Climate change and its affect on ecosystems and organisms is discussed frequently.
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Natural Laboratory: Where have all the black abalone gone? How are scientists surveying the remaining population? Why are black abalones eating so much? Tune in for answers to these and related questions.
Natural Laboratory: What is the role of fog along the California coast? How is the decline of fog affecting coast redwoods? Answers to these and similar questions are included in this audio file.
Natural Laboratory: What is being done at Point Reyes National Seashore to make it more sustainable? Tune in to find out.
Natural Laboratory: This audio file discusses how climate change is affecting birds and other species of animals and plants in California.
Natural Laboratory: Listen in to find out how soil is being restored to promote the growth of grass near Point Reyes National Seashore.
Natural Laboratory: Tune in to find out how deep-water corals are beneficial to an array of different marine organisms and the factors that could harm the corals. Information is provided by experts at the Cordell Bank National Marine Sanctuary.
Natural Laboratory: Due to higher carbon dioxide output, the oceans have become increasingly acidic. How is this acidity affecting marine organisms with shells? Tune in to find out.
Natural Laboratory: What exactly are you pumping into your car each week? What is the relationship between fossils that took hundreds of millions of years to form and the products you consume daily? Tune in for answers to these and other related questions.
Natural Laboratory: Global warming is discussed in terms of how it is affecting marine species off the coast of California. Topics including geographic shifts of species, ocean acidification, and dead zones are emphasized.
Natural Laboratory: This audio file covers attracting great white sharks to boats so that they can be documented and tagged. They types of tags used are discussed as well as the migration patterns of the great white sharks found off the California coast.
Natural Laboratory: Non-native death cap mushrooms have been introduced at Point Reyes National Seashore and are affecting the ecosystem. Tune in to learn more about these mushrooms such as which species of trees they interact with and the dangers they pose to humans.
Natural Laboratory: Why are populations of native Olympia oysters in Tomales Bay not recovering although they have not been harvested for nearly a century? Tune in to find out.
Natural Laboratory: What is being done to restore the population of tidewater gobies in the Tomales Bay watershed? Tune in to find out.
Natural Laboratory: Listen to this audio file to learn about Humboldt squid. In recent years these squids have been frequenting waters off of the California coast. Biologists search for the reason behind this unusual behavior.
Natural Laboratory: Listen in as an oceanographer gives examples of how climate change is impacting the marine species present off the California coast. Examples come from scientific research and reliable observations made over the past 60 to 70 years.
Natural Laboratory: Tune in to learn about tracking Coho salmon and other fish species through electrofishing.
Natural Laboratory: Can Liam Reidy find evidence of a huge tsunami that occurred in central California during the early 1700’s? Tune in to find out.
Natural Laboratory: Join the search for one of the ocean’s great hunters, the white shark. Learn how these sharks are tracked in the northern Pacific Ocean and what the aims of the current research are.
Natural Laboratory: Discover the fascinating science being conducted at San Francisco Bay Area National Parks.
Natural Laboratory: What pollutants are present in harbor seals, how do the seals absorb these pollutants, and what testing is conducted to determine the level of contamination of the seals? Tune in to find out.
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