Santa Cruz Naturalist

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Westside’s Hidden Gem: Younger Lagoon Reserve

by Emily Donham | Oct 1, 2019

Join us this week on Santa Cruz Naturalist as the Director of the Younger Lagoon Reserve, Elizabeth Howard, takes us on a tour of the lagoon. This feature is just Part 1 of an interview with...

Caves of Santa Cruz County

by Emily Donham | Sep 23, 2019

This week on Santa Cruz Naturalist, Dr. Jessica Oster, Assistant Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Vanderbilt University, and PhD student Cameron de Wet chat about caves found in...

Cave hair, and other mysteries

by Theadora Block | Sep 17, 2019

UC Santa Cruz Campus Natural Reserve Manager Alex Jones has seen a lot of mysterious creatures in Empire Cave: everything from aggregations of Harvestmen spiders known as "cave hair," to...

What Does It Take To Be A Santa Cruz Naturalist?

by Emily Donham | Sep 10, 2019

This week on Santa Cruz Naturalist we chat with Chris Lay, the director of the Ken Norris Center for Natural History at UC Santa Cruz. Chris tells us a little about one of Santa Cruz's most...