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The Natural Laboratory explores science at Bay Area National Parks – especially Point Reyes National Seashore, Golden Gate National Recreation Area and Muir Woods National Monument. In each episode we discover how researchers are solving mysteries of the natural world in our parks.
Visit http://www.nps.gov/pore/, http://www.nps.gov/goga/, http://www.sfnps.org/pcslc, and http://science.nature.nps.gov/im/units/sfan/ for more information about the parks and programs featured in this podcast.
The music used in this podcast is by Ocean Alexander. It is used under a Creative Commons license.
Visit http://www.nps.gov/pore/, http://www.nps.gov/goga/, http://www.sfnps.org/pcslc, and http://science.nature.nps.gov/im/units/sfan/ for more information about the parks and programs featured in this podcast.
The music used in this podcast is by Ocean Alexander. It is used under a Creative Commons license.
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Cassandra Brooks interviews Tim Tinker and Jim Estes to find out why visitors at Point Reyes will not likely see California sea otters today.
Cassandra Brooks interviews Mike Vasey and Todd Dawson about how fog is declining along the central California Coast.
Cassandra Brooks interviews Amy Henry, an intern looking for Black Abalones in the Golden Gate National Recreation Area and Point Reyes National Seashore.
1Cassandra Brooks interviews Ivano Aiello about how we burn ancient life to power our civilization and some of the issues that result from fossil fuel pollution.
Cassandra Brooks interviews Ann Russell, Terry Swyer, and Andrew Dickson about ocean acidification.
Cassandra Brooks interviews Lisa Etherington and Dan Howard about Cordell Bank National Marine Sanctuary's deep-water corals.
Daniel Strain interviews Becca Ryals and Whendee Silver about efforts to sequester carbon dioxide in the soils of wild meadows and rangelands across California.
Daniel Strain interviews Diana Stralberg about how climate change will impact California's birds.
Daniel Strain interviews John Dell’Osso and Sara Hammond about what Point Reyes National Seashore is doing to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions and to become more sustainable.
Ted Grosholz and his students discuss what may limit the Olympia oyster’s recovery and potential restoration efforts.
Benjamin Wolfe discusses his research on the invasion of Death Cap Mushrooms at Point Reyes.
Scot Anderson describes new findings about White Sharks.
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.
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.
Join a team of researchers as they search for the Humboldt Squid.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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. Will the idea float?
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