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Field Report (starts 1:00) We join Boulder naturalists Steve Jones and Ruth Carol Cushman on a Christmas Bird Count as Boulder’s winter water saunas.
Xmas Bird Count’s Bill Schmoker (starts 4:28) Boulder’s Annual Xmas Bird Count is Sunday December 15th. Bill Schmoker is the organizer of this Count, which is one of the longest-running and largest in the nation. He explains how it’s done, and why it’s important to the science of bird ecology.
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedScientists speak out for science (start time: 1:00) The Trump administration has been on a dizzying streak of slashing federal funding for scientific research, and firing thousands of federal scientists. Among the casualties is the National Weather Service , which supplies critical data from air balloons and climate models to develop weather forecasts. Many cities and agencies use these data to warn the public when extreme weather, such as a hurricane, is approaching. This crisis has prompted some climate scientists and meteorologists to organize a marathon five-day event, starting May 28, to educate the public about how vital their work is to society, and to mobilize people to take action. Host Susan Moran interviews two climate scientists who are on the organizing team of 100 Hours to Save America’s Forecasts . Margaret Duffy is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of California Berkeley, and Marc Alessi works with the Union of Concerned Scientists. (Click here to see the schedule.) Hosts : Susan Moran, Joel Parker Show Producer: Susan Moran Engineer/ Executive Producer: Joel Parker Listen to the show here:…
Arvind Panjabi releasing a banded grasshopper sparrow in Chihuahua state, Mexico. Photo credit: Sujata Gupta Birds: Risk and Resilience (start time: 5:55) What speaks of Spring more than the songs of American robins, yellow warblers, spotted towhees and other birds in the early morning? As we relish in these avians choruses, it’s also an important time to examine why bird populations in North America have, by and large, been plummeting in recent decades, due to multiple stressors, including climate change and habitat destruction. At the same time, some conservation efforts (including bipartisan legislation) on the federal , state and local levels, are bearing some fruit. And everyone can help give these winged creatures a hand, starting with their own gardens, and by getting involved in citizen science projects, such a bird-banding and bird-counting. In this week’s show, host Susan Moran interviews Arvind Panjabi , a senior research scientist at Bird Conservancy of the Rockies , a nonprofit organization devoted to the conservation of birds and their habitats. (Listen to Shelley Schlender’s sound portrait of five migratory birds that are visiting Colorado now (start time: 2:58). Host/Producer : Susan Moran Engineer : Jackie Sedley Executive Producer : Joel Parker Headline Contributors : Joel Parker, Shelley Schlender Listen to the show here:…
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With graduation season upon us, today’s edition of How on Earth is Part 1 of our annual “ Graduation Special ”. Our guests in the studio today are scientists and engineers who have or will soon receive their Masters or Ph.D. from the University of Colorado in a STEM-related field. They talk about their thesis research, their grad school experiences, and what they have planned next. Renee Spear – Aerospace Engineering Topic: Collision-Free Spacecraft Trajectory Design in Multi-Body Systems Gautam Kavuri – Physics Topic: Wringing the Bell: Implementations of Cryptographic Protocols Based on Bell Non-locality Dhyey Bhavsar – Aerospace Engineering Topic: Shape Diameter Computation on Surface Meshes and A Review of Shape Regularization Methods in Level-Set Topology Optimization You can listen to all past year Graduation Special episodes . Host / Producer : Joel Parker Listen to the show:…
Sweet in Tooth and Claw (start time: 0:59) Since the 1800s, science has been obsessed with the notion, stemming from Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution through natural selection, that only the “fittest” can survive and pass on their strong genes. As in, it’s a ruthless, violent world. And today, we humans find ourselves mired in a hyper-polarized society fixated on competition, disruption, and “If you win, I lose” thinking. A good time to take a look at a different way of living together–how a “kinder, gentler” approach also helps species evolve. In this week’s show, Susan Moran interviews journalist/author Kristin Ohlson , whose most recent book, Sweet in Tooth and Claw: Stories of Generosity and Cooperation in the Natural World , was recently released in paperback by Patagonia Works. Host/Producer : Susan Moran Engineer : Jackie Sedley Executive Producer : Joel Parker Listen to the show here:…
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1 De-funding NIST’s Atomic Spectroscopy Group 26:57
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedAlexander Kramida – NIST Atomic Spectroscopy Group – phote from NIST Federal cutbacks have led the National Institute of Standards and Technology to shut down a long-running, highly prized information center used by scientists around the world, for projects ranging from searching for exoplanets, to making better microchips, to detecting atomic missiles. Atomic Spectroscopy Database Manager Alexander Kramida explains the purpose of the Atomic Spectroscopy Group , the impact of losing it, and what’s next, now that federal budget cuts mean NIST is shutting it down. For a Transcript, go here . Host & Show Producer : Shelley Schlender Additional Contributions : Joel Parker Executive Producer : Joel Parker…
image credit: NASA Our guest today is Dr. Simone Marchi, Institute Scientist in the Solar System Science & Exploration Division at the Boulder office of Southwest Research Institute . Dr. Marchi is the Deputy Principal Investigator for NASA’s Lucy mission . Lucy will be the first space mission to explore a population of small bodies known as the Trojan asteroids , which orbit out at the distance of Jupiter. Lucy has two “practice” flybys of main belt asteroids: Dinkinesh in November 2023, and Donaldjohanson coming up in just a few days on April 20, 2025. Producer and Host : Joel Parker Listen to the show:…
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedPoisoning the Well (starts 2:00) Boulder science writer Sharon Udasin discusses her new book, Poisoning the Well: How Forever Chemicals Contaminated America. The book chronicles how these chemicals have ended up in our soil , drinking water, our bloodstreams . . . including in Colorado. She also explains what we can do about these sometimes useful, but far too often, health-endangering chemicals. Sharon will speak April 8th at the Boulder Bookstore. Other events discussed in this show are the CU-Boulder Conference on World Affairs and the Dinosaur Ridge Raptorthon Special thanks to Simon Roberts and his youtube channel, Environmental Chemistry Explained , for the song, “Forever Chemicals.” Producer and Host : Shelley Schlender Executive Producer : Joel Parker Listen to the show:…
Today is April Fools’ day, when jokes and pranks are played, sometimes among friends and family, sometimes on a more public scale. But why is there such a day for culturally-accepted foolishness? To delve into the origins and history of April Fools’ Day, we talk with Dr. Angus Kress Gillespie , folklorist and professor of American studies at Rutgers University . (Image credit: Zurijeta | Shutterstock.com) You might find it shocking that scientists have a sense of humor , so we also talk with, Dr. Mike Lund from the NASA Exoplanet Science Institute at the Infrared Processing & Analysis Center / CalTech about the tradition among Astronomers to write and even review humorous research papers for April Fools’ day. These papers are often posted on the arXiv preprint server, and Dr. Lund, the author of several such papers, also is the editor of the Acta Prima Aprilia that shares some of those papers. Producer and Host : Joel Parker Additional contributions : Beth Bennett Executive Producer : Joel Parker Listen to the show here:…
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oil and gas rig Image courtesy of USGS NEPA rollbacks, environmental impacts (start time: 6:25) Amidst a flurry of moves by the Trump administration to roll back environmental regulations, last month a White House agency proposed a rule to rescind a landmark law meant to protect wildlife, their habitat, and human communities from unchecked development, and to ensure that the public has a say in projects ranging from oil and gas drilling to wind and solar farms. The rule, if it goes into effect, would mean that the White House Council on Environmental Quality would no longer enforce how the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) is carried out. As a result, many infrastructure projects would not be subject to environmental review. A public comment period regarding this proposed rule ends on Friday, March 27. (Click here to submit any comments.) How On Earth host Susan Moran interviews Jim McElfish , a senior advisor at the Environmental Law Institute , a nonpartisan, nonprofit center working to strengthening environmental protection by improving law and governance. Hosts : Susan Moran, Joel Parker Show Producer : Susan Moran Engineer : Joel Parker Headline contributors : Beth Bennett, Joel Parker Executive Producer : Beth Bennett Listen to the show here:…
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On this week’s show, Beth talks with Brianne Barker , Associate Professor of Biology and Director of Undergraduate Research at Drew University. Dr Barker studies innate immune responses – these are the initial, non-specific actions taken by the immune system – to fight off retroviruses such as HIV (the AIDS virus). We discuss the measles virus, how it gets into cells, travels through the body to cause its many symptoms, which can be long-lasting and even lethal , and its frightening ability to wipe out, or erase, much of the accumulated memory of the immune system to previous infections. For an even deeper dive into this dangerous virus, you can hear Dr Barker and other virologists go into greater detail here . Executive Producer: Beth Bennett Show Producer: Beth Bennett Additional Contributions: Susan Moran Engineer: Jackie Sedley Listen to the show:…
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1 This Ordinary Stardust: A Scientist’s Path from Grief to Wonder 25:46
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedWe speak with Environmental Scientist Alan Townsend about his new book, This Ordinary Stardust: A Scientist’s Path from Grief to Wonder . It chronicles what happened when his family received two unthinkable, catastrophic diagnoses: his 4-year-old daughter and his brilliant scientist wife developed unrelated, life-threatening forms of brain cancer. As he witnessed his young daughter fight during the courageous final months of her mother’s life, Townsend – a lifelong scientist – was indelibly altered. Executive Producer: Beth Bennett Show Producer: Shelley Schlender Hosts: Joel Parker and Shelley Schlender Engineer: Joel Parker Listen to the show:…
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Source: patrice schoefolt / Pexels On today’s show, Beth speaks with two experts on animal behavior and training about the wolf reintroduction project in Colorado – wins and losses. Mary Angilly is an advocate for force-free, evidence-based training in dogs and other animals. For decades Marc Bekoff has researched animal behavior, cognitive ethology (the study of animal minds), behavioral ecology, and compassionate conservation, and he has written extensively on human-animal interactions and animal protection.They have collaborated on essays involving problems faced by both wolves and humans in reintroduction projects. In this episode, they discuss some interesting and innovative solutions. Executive Producer: Beth Bennett Show Producer: Beth Bennett Additional Contributions: Susan Moran Engineer: Jackie Sedley Listen to the Show:…
Tom Cech’s New Book The Catalyst: RNA and the Quest to Unlock Life’s Deepest Secrets CU Boulder Nobel Prize-Winning Scientist Tom Cech says that RNA has long been the biochemical backup singer that slaves away in the shadows of the diva. In his new book, The Catalyst , Cech puts RNA in the spotlight, along with dazzling and determined scientists who’ve been helping us learn more about RNA. Show Host/Producer : Shelley Schlender Engineer : Jackie Sedley Executive Producer : Beth Bennett…
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