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Birds in Your Backyard: Great Horned Owls Part 1

Birds in Your Backyard: Great Horned Owls Part 1

by Theadora Block | Jan 31, 2021

This week on Santa Cruz Naturalist, I talk about Great Horned Owls. They are the largest owl species in Santa Cruz, and have a wide range through all of North America and some parts of South...

Furry Little Caterpillars: Introducing the Tussock Moth

Furry Little Caterpillars: Introducing the Tussock Moth

by Emily Donham | Jan 12, 2021

This week on Santa Cruz Naturalist, Emily chats with graduate student Becca Nelson about a sometimes voracious herbivore, the tussock moth. Tussock moths are commonly found on live oak trees in...

Art as science communication with humpback whales

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

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.

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