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Tracking Nature With the Public
As part of a larger, nationwide project, citizen scientists and staff at the John Muir National Historic Site in Martinez, California track phenology in the park, or how plants and animals change with the seasons. Studying how plant and animal behavior relates to weather and climate is not only important for managing park resources today, but also for planning for future climate changes.
- Duration:
- 3 minutes, 4 seconds
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The Natural Laboratory: Birds on the go: Climate change and California's feathered friends
Daniel Strain interviews Diana Stralberg, an ecologist with PRBO Conservation Science, about how climate change will affect birds at Point Reyes National Seashore and elsewhere in California.
- Duration:
- 5 minutes, 24 seconds
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The Natural Laboratory: Burning Ancient Life: The Geology of an Oil Reserve
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.
- Duration:
- 4 minutes, 41 seconds
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The Natural Laboratory: Ocean Acidification: Where will all the seashells go?
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.
- Duration:
- 8 minutes, 47 seconds
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The Natural Laboratory: Declining fog in coastal California?
Cassandra Brooks interviews Mike Vasey and Todd Dawson about recent studies indicating that the fog is declining along the California coast.
- Duration:
- 5 minutes, 27 seconds
Last updated: May 22, 2020