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Blue Dot

Dave Schlom, Matt Fidler

Blue Dot, named after Carl Sagan"s famous speech about our place in the universe, features interviews with guests from all over the regional, national and worldwide scientific communities. Host Dave Schlom leads discussions about the issues science is helping us address with experts who shed light on climate change, space exploration, astronomy, technology and much more. Dave asks us to remember: from deep space, we all live on a pale, blue dot.

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51:38

Best of Blue Dot: California's wild and scenic Eel...

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2026/10/02

Host Dave Schlom is joined by Charles Schneider, a Connectivity Program Manager for California Trout, to discuss the human and natural history of California's third-largest watershed, the Eel River.

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52:12

Blue Dot: Dark skies for ecosystem and human health...

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2026/09/25

Host Dave Schlom is joined by two representatives from The Nature Conservancy in California to discuss the importance of dark skies as a natural resource.

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51:36

Best of Blue Dot: The International Geophysical Year...

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2026/09/18

Host Dave Schlom is joined by Mark O'Connell, whose screenwriting credits include Star Trek: The Next Generation and Deep Space Nine, to talk about his non-fiction book, The Year Science Changed Everything: 1957's International Geophysical Year and the Future of Our Planet.

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57:37

Best of Blue Dot: Understanding the basic science of...

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2026/09/11

Host Dave Schlom is joined by science educator and author Trisha Muro to discuss her book, It's (Just) Rocket Science: Exploring Physics Through Spaceflight Missions.

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52:13

Blue Dot: A new look at Freud and neuroscience with...

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2026/09/04

Host Dave Schlom is joined by world renowned neuropsychologist and psychoanalyst Mark Solms. Dr. Solms is the author of the new book, The Only Cure: Freud and the Science of Mental Healing.

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52:12

Blue Dot: All things El Niño with NASA's Josh Willis

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2026/08/28

Host Dave Schlom is joined by a longtime friend of Blue Dot, Josh Willis from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena. Josh is an oceanographer who uses NASA's armada of Earth monitoring satellites to study ocean heights, temperatures and currents.

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51:37

Best of Blue Dot: All that glitters: a conversation...

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2026/08/21

Host Dave Schlom is joined by British humorist and financial writer Dominic Frisby.

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52:15

Blue Dot: The Big One times two? The link between...

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2026/08/14

Host Dave Schlom is joined by Oregon State marine geologist Chris Goldfinger to take an in-depth look at the West Coast's two most dangerous faults, the San Andreas and Cascadia.

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52:12

Blue Dot: The great heat wave of 1936 with author...

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2026/08/07

Host Dave Schlom is joined by Geoff Williams, author of the new book, The Summer of Death: The Great Heat Wave of 1936 and the Making of Modern America.

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51:56

Blue Dot: How animals influence human thought: A...

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2026/07/31

Host Dave Schlom is joined by British author Michael Bond, author of the new book, Animate: How Animals Shape the Human Mind. Bond specializes in writing about psychology and human behavior and in this masterful work, he goes back to the very beginnings of humanity's relationship with the animal world.

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52:06

Blue Dot: An innovative solution to removing and...

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2026/07/24

Host Dave Schlom explores the world of biochar and ways to remove carbon from the landscape with Pyrolysis engineer Joe Polin and policy expert Nora Cohen Brown from Charm Industrial.

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52:03

Blue Dot: Hot Creek in peril: a proposed gold mine...

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2026/07/17

Host Dave Schlom examines an environmental issue exploding in eastern California.

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49:31

Blue Dot: The "earthquake gate" in Southern...

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2026/07/10

Host Dave Schlom is joined by Liliane Burkhard, a geophysicist and planetary scientist at the University of Bern in Switzerland, to discuss a recent study linking earthquakes on two of Southern California's major faults.

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51:38

Blue Dot: California 1776: what was it like? With...

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2026/07/03

To mark the nation's 250th birthday, host Dave Schlom is joined by California State University Chico geography professor Don Hankins to discuss what California would have been like in 1776.

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54:59

Best of Blue Dot: The art and science of fly fishing...

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2026/06/26

Host Dave Schlom gets to delve into his favorite pastime, fly fishing, with two of his heroes -- Mike Mercer and Bryan Quick from The Fly Shop in Redding, California.

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51:36

Best of Blue Dot: Sky ghosts of the cosmos: Comets

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2026/06/19

Host Dave Schlom is joined by two scientists from the SETI Institute in Mt. View, California, to talk about one of hisfavorite celestial phenomena -- comets.

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51:36

Blue Dot: Animal intelligence with Lori Marino

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2026/06/12

Host Dave Schlom is joined by neuroscientist and animal intelligence advocate Dr. Lori Marino, who was recently named the 2026 winner of the Frank Drake Award by the SETI Institute in Mountain View, California.

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51:36

Best of Blue Dot: Wildlife photography with...

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2026/06/05

Host Dave Schlom is joined by nature and wildlife photographer Tom Murphy for an in-depth conversation about his life and career.

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51:37

Blue Dot: All that glitters: a conversation with...

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2026/05/29

Host Dave Schlom is joined by British humorist and financial writer Dominic Frisby.

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57:37

Blue Dot: Understanding the basic science of...

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2026/05/22

Host Dave Schlom is joined by science educator and author Trisha Muro to discuss her new book, It's (Just) Rocket Science: Exploring Physics Through Spaceflight Missions.

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