Santa Cruz Naturalist – Details, episodes & analysis
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27/12/2024#63
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Digging for Dungeness Crabs!
mardi 8 octobre 2024 • Duration 03:54
Host Niki Sridhar talks with UCSC PhD Candidate Ben Walker about his experience researching climate change effects on Dungeness crabs.
Wildlife at Fort Ord Reserve (Part 1)
jeudi 21 novembre 2024 • Duration 04:17
In this episode, Nikka chats with Joe Miller, Director of Fort Ord Natural Reserve, about the incredible wildlife that inhabits the unique landscape of the reserve. To learn more about ways to get involved with the reserve, check out part two of our talk next week and sign up for the reserve's mailing list: https://forms.gle/c3PaUmekeFKe6mVt9
Birds love aquaculture!
mardi 10 octobre 2023 • Duration 04:05
On this episode, host Niki Sridhar interviews undergraduate researcher Keenan Chau-Pech on his recent project looking at ecosystem services of aquaculture facilities in Tomales Bay. Spoiler alert: birds are attracted to habitat created by aquaculture gear!
Bioluminescence
mardi 22 août 2023 • Duration 03:01
This week, hosts Frankie Gerraty and Nikka Malakooti discuss the biology underpinning the unique bioluminescence currently taking place along the Santa Cruz coastline.
Sea Otter Drama
mardi 18 juillet 2023 • Duration 03:01
In otter news, Frankie Gerraty covers a developing story about "841," a southern sea otter who has gotten too comfortable with humans—so comfortable, in fact, that she has been stealing surfboards!
Fence Ecology
mardi 18 avril 2023 • Duration 03:01
In this episode, host Frankie Gerraty discusses the ecological effects of one of the most common and widespread human infrastructures: fencing.
Fire Ecology and Cultural Burning - Part 2
mardi 28 février 2023 • Duration 04:00
In this week's episode, host Frankie Gerraty continues his conversation with Nicolás Cruz about prescribed and cultural burning.
Fire Ecology and Cultural Burning - Part 1
Season 5 · Episode 35
mardi 21 février 2023 • Duration 04:00
In this episode, host Frankie Gerraty talks to fire ecologist Nicolás Cruz about forest fires, cultural burning, and his research on the role of fire in wetland ecosystems.
The Afterlives of Trees: Driftwood Ecology
Season 5 · Episode 32
mardi 17 janvier 2023 • Duration 04:00
In this episode, host Frankie Gerraty discusses the important ecological roles that fallen trees play as they move from forests to rivers to oceans.
Once common, now elusive: The Sunflower Seastar
mardi 10 janvier 2023 • Duration 03:04
On today's episode, host Niki Sridhar talks about the sunflower seastar. A now critically endangered species that plays an important role in kelp forest dynamics.
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