Santa Cruz Naturalist

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Just for Fern

by Kelley Voss | Dec 6, 2019

UCSC doctoral candidate Helen Holmlund has traveled all over the world to study the fascinating physiology of ferns. She has even risked being eaten by Australian crocodiles in order to collect her...

All steelhead and rainbows

by Kelley Voss | Dec 6, 2019

UCSC doctoral candidate Katie Kobayashi's personal and professional lives look very similar, and she wouldn't have it any other way. You can usually catch her in waders angling for fish somewhere...

Something’s Fishy: Meet the Plague Minnow

by Emily Donham | Oct 29, 2019

This week on Santa Cruz Naturalist we chat with UCSC PhD Candidate Doriane Weiler, about mosquitofish. Listen in as we venture to Antonelli pond on Santa Cruz's westside to find juvenile...

Native plants at UC Santa Cruz Arboretum

by Theadora Block | Oct 15, 2019

This week we talk with Dr. Linda Anderson about the amazing UC Santa Cruz Arboretum, a great place to see native California Plants and many more! We learn about the California native plant garden...