Santa Cruz Naturalist

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Art as science communication with humpback whales

by Theadora Block | Jan 7, 2021

We follow up with Jessie Kendall-Bar, a Ph.D. student at UC Santa Cruz in the Ecology & Evolutionary biology department. In two previous episodes, we learned about her research on sleep in...

Looking Underground: What Happens in the Soil After Fires

by Emily Donham | Nov 9, 2020

This week on Santa Cruz Naturalist, Emily chats with UCSC PhD student, Clara Qin about how fires impact soil microbes.

Santa Cruz Super-Naturalist

by Kelley Voss | Oct 20, 2020

UCSC bat expert and friend of the show Kyle Reid is back once more for a spooky conversation about local cryptids (creatures from folklore). We talk about our favorite Bigfoot subspecies, and other...

Santa Cruz Bat-uralist, Part 2

by Kelley Voss | Oct 20, 2020

So, what's cool about a bat's face? Kelley continues our interview with UCSC doctoral student and bat expert Kyle Reid (listen to Part 1) . You can learn more about Kyle's work here. Also, please,...