Episodios

  • Blue Dot: Exploring California's Native Trees with Matt Ritter and Michael Kauffmann

    Blue Dot: Exploring California's Native Trees with Matt Ritter and Michael Kauffmann
    Jul 5 2025
    Host Dave Schlom is joined by Backcountry Press Publisher Michael Kauffmann along with Cal Poly San Luis Obispo botany professor Matt Ritter. Both combined to author the superb new book, California Trees: A Field Guide to the Native Species.
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    52 m
  • Best of Blue Dot: Microplastics in the marine environment

    Best of Blue Dot: Microplastics in the marine environment
    Jun 27 2025
    Host Dave Schlom is joined by Zeke Spooner, a Ph.D student at the UC Davis Bodega Marine Laboratory, to discuss microplastics.
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    52 m
  • Blue Dot: Celebrating Jaws at 50 with the "Lost Shark Guy" David Ebert

    Blue Dot: Celebrating Jaws at 50 with the "Lost Shark Guy" David Ebert
    Jun 20 2025
    Host Dave Schlom is joined by David Ebert, Director of San Jose State University's Pacific Shark Research Center to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the movie Jaws.
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    52 m
  • Blue Dot: The golden state's volcanic legacy: The USGS California Volcano Observatory

    Blue Dot: The golden state's volcanic legacy: The USGS California Volcano Observatory
    Jun 13 2025
    Host Dave Schlom discusses one of his favorite topics, California's volcanoes, with two United States Geological Survey staff members from the USGS California Volcano Observatory based at Moffett Field in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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    52 m
  • Blue Dot: Celebrating three years of astronomy with the James Webb Space Telescope

    Blue Dot: Celebrating three years of astronomy with the James Webb Space Telescope
    Jun 6 2025
    Blue Dot marks three years of operation of the magnificent James Webb Space Telescope. NASA Webb Project Manager Mike Davis joins host Dave Schlom for an overview of the telescope's operation and unique capabilities that have surpassed the expectations of the astronomical community.
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    52 m
  • Blue Dot: Restoring an ancient and important salmon habitat: Big Chico Creek in Northern California

    Blue Dot: Restoring an ancient and important salmon habitat: Big Chico Creek in Northern California
    May 30 2025
    Host Dave Schlom and Producer Matt Fidler go out in the field and in the studio to learn about the story of a major restoration on Big Chico Creek in Chico, California's historic and precious Bidwell Park.
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    52 m
  • Blue Dot: The challenge of California's growing wolf population

    Blue Dot: The challenge of California's growing wolf population
    May 23 2025
    Host Dave Schlom is joined by two University of California at Davis researchers and the state's gray wolf coordinator to learn more about how California's steadily growing wolf population is affecting cattle ranchers and communities in rural Northern California.
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    52 m
  • Best of Blue Dot: Fire and ice: a look at the Cascade volcanoes

    Best of Blue Dot: Fire and ice: a look at the Cascade volcanoes
    May 16 2025
    Host Dave Schlom is joined by scientists from the United States Geological Survey's Cascades Volcano Observatory in Vancouver, Washington, for an overview of the iconic cones sheathed in snow and ice and the geologic hazards they represent.
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    52 m