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Central Coast Naturalist

Central Coast Naturalist

Central Coast Naturalist invites listeners to join UCSC Ecology and Evolutionary Biology graduate students as they explore nature in and around Santa Cruz County. Each episode will enrich your next experience with nature as you learn fascinating insights (from local experts) about the creatures that inhabit your favorite hiking trails, beaches and even your own backyard.

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00:04:13

Ctenophores and the Tree of Life, Part 2

Central Coast Naturalist ·

2021/10/13

In the second part of Nikka's chat with Dr. Darrin Schultz, we go big picture. Find out why ctenophores hold the key to understanding how important animal features, like brain cells, came to be.

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00:03:35

Ctenophores and the Tree of Life, Part 1

Central Coast Naturalist ·

2021/10/13

Nikka interviews Dr. Darrin Schultz, a research scientist at MBARI, about ctenophores, also known as comb jellies. He helps us get to know these beautiful animals - look out for part 2, when we'll learn more about how studying ctenophores can teach us about animal evolution.

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00:04:06

Fossils!

Central Coast Naturalist ·

2021/09/27

This week, Sara talked with Kathleen Aston, the Collections Manager for the Santa Cruz Museum of Natural History. The museum displays many aspects of the natural world, but here we focus on fossils--where you can find them around Santa Cruz and what history they reveal.

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00:04:00

Kelp Forest Critters: Meet the Abalone

Central Coast Naturalist ·

2021/09/21

This week on Santa Cruz Naturalist, Emily interviews UCSC PhD student, Ben Walker, about abalone. Before starting his PhD, Ben worked as a technician on the endangered white abalone at UC Davis. Tune in to hear what makes abalone one of the coolest mollusks in ocean!

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00:03:38

A Sea of Salps

Central Coast Naturalist ·

2021/08/10

This week on Santa Cruz Naturalist, Nikka Malakooti gives us an introduction to salps, beautiful gelatinous organisms found filter feeding, jet-propelling, and occasionally causing mayhem in oceans around the world.

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00:02:49

Tidepooling in Santa Cruz, Part 3

Central Coast Naturalist ·

2021/08/03

This week on Santa Cruz Naturalist, Emily Donham introduces listeners to one of Monterey Bays most common intertidal invertebrates, the California mussel. Mussels are important foundation species, creating habitat for diverse assemblages of seaweeds and animals.

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00:03:56

Does Behavior Play a Role in Creating Urchin Barrens?

Central Coast Naturalist ·

2021/07/13

This week on Santa Cruz Naturalist, Emily Donham chats with UCSC Ecology and Evolutionary Biology PhD candidate Casey Sheridan about his work on sea urchins. Casey shares how sea urchin behavior might impact how (and where) they get their dinner.

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Coralline Algae: The Unsung Hero of Our Reefs

Central Coast Naturalist ·

2021/06/15

This week on Santa Cruz Naturalist, Emily chats with UCSC PhD candidate Lauren Bell about coralline algae. Lauren explains what coralline algae are and why they're so important in all marine ecosystems.

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00:02:36

Tidepooling in Santa Cruz, Part 2

Central Coast Naturalist ·

2021/06/08

This week on Santa Cruz Naturalist, Emily introduces listeners to one of her favorite seaweeds, Postelsia palmata, commonly known as the sea palm. Sea palms can be found right here in the Monterey Bay. Listen in to learn more!

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00:04:05

Buried alive: How forest fires are putting endangered...

Central Coast Naturalist ·

2021/05/25

This week, Sara talked with Wendy Bragg, a PhD student at UC Santa Cruz who is leading a recovery effort of the endangered black abalone following last year’s fires. You might not think that terrestrial forest fires would impact coastal marine life, but Wendy explains how large loads of sediment make their way to the coastline, and the impact this has on black abalone populations.

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00:03:29

Rockfish of Monterey Bay, Part 2

Central Coast Naturalist ·

2021/04/06

This week on Santa Cruz Naturalist, Emily speaks with Stanford graduate student Melissa Palmisciano about her work on juvenile rockfish. This is part two of a series on rockfish found right here in the Monterey Bay. Tune in to learn more!

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Rockfish of Monterey Bay, Part 1

Central Coast Naturalist ·

2021/03/09

This week on Santa Cruz Naturalist, Emily speaks with Moss Landing Marine Laboratories graduate student Kristin Saksa about her work on rockfish larvae “babies”. Kristin’s work focuses on how climate change will impact this vulnerable stage in rockfish life. This is part one of a series on rockfish found right here in the Monterey Bay. Tune in to learn more!

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00:04:00

Birds in Your Backyard: Great Horned Owls Part 2

Central Coast Naturalist ·

2021/03/02

This week on Santa Cruz Naturalist, Theadora talks more about Great Horned Owls, following up on last month's episode. Learn about some of their special adaptations which make them such amazing hunters. They are some of the only predators around who eat skunks!

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00:04:03

Col. Charles Young - First Black National Park...

Central Coast Naturalist ·

2021/02/23

This week, in celebration of Black History Month, Sara highlights someone who made important contributions to preserving California’s natural habitats and making them accessible for people to enjoy. This person was Colonel Charles Young, the first Black superintendent of a U.S. National Park. In 1903, he oversaw construction and development at Sequoia National Park and a portion of Kings Canyon national park, working to protect California’s natural habitats while increasing their accessibility to

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00:02:27

Tidepooling in Santa Cruz, Part 1

Central Coast Naturalist ·

2021/02/09

This week on Santa Cruz Naturalist, host Emily Donham introduces listeners to the hairy chiton, a common critter found in the intertidal zone in Santa Cruz.

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00:04:00

Birds in your backyard IV: Great Horned Owls

Central Coast Naturalist ·

2021/02/01

This week on Santa Cruz Naturalist, Theadora talks about Great Horned Owls. They are one of the larger Owl species in North America, and have a wide range through all of North America and some parts of South America. Great Horned Owls can be difficult to see as they roost quietly in trees during the day, but they are much easier to find by listening for their song at night. Listen in to hear their song, learn how to tell the males apart from females, and more!

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00:04:02

Checking out our underwater reefs

Central Coast Naturalist ·

2021/01/26

This week on Santa Cruz Naturalist, Sara interviews Dan Abbott, the Central California Regional Manager for Reefcheck, a non-profit organization that monitors underwater reefs and kelp forests with help from citizen scientists. Reefcheck has been operating in kelp forests around the Monterey Bay area since 2006, and their data help to track important ecological and environmental events. Some of this information has been used to inform coastal policy to protect abalone and sea stars. Do you want to

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00:04:00

Art as science communication

Central Coast Naturalist ·

2021/01/05

Theadora follows up with Jessie Kendall-Bar, a Ph.D. student at UC Santa Cruz in the Ecology & Evolutionary biology department. In two previous episodes, we learned about her research on sleep in marine mammals, including how elephant seals sleep underwater (here) and on migration (here). Jessie is also a wonderful artist. This week on Santa Cruz Naturalist we learn how she uses art to turn research into a beautiful story, and how she is using 3D animation to display some fascinating new feeding

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00:03:48

Life inside an urban garden

Central Coast Naturalist ·

2020/12/29

This week on Santa Cruz Naturalist, Sara interviews Azucena Lucatero, a Ph.D. candidate at UC Santa Cruz, about urban garden ecology. She tells us about the purpose of urban gardens and the interactions between plants and insects that occur there, and touches on how the COVID-19 pandemic has influenced the practice of urban gardening.

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00:03:42

Furry Little Caterpillars: Introducing the Tussock Moth

Central Coast Naturalist ·

2020/12/16

This week on Santa Cruz Naturalist, Emily chats with graduate student Becca Nelson about a sometimes voracious herbivore, the tussock moth. Tussock moths are commonly found on live oak trees in Santa Cruz with their abundances fluctuating from year to year. Tune in to learn more!

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