Monitoring Climate Change in the Kelp Forest With the Help of Citizen Scientists
This week on Santa Cruz Naturalist, we chat with Reef Check CA's climate change coordinator, Kate Vylet. Tune in to hear more about how Reef Check trains volunteer citizen scientists to monitor climate change. To learn more about Reef Check, visit reefcheck.org.
Illyanna Hendricks – Life Changing Question
Illyanna Hendricks recalls a questions that changed her life.
Naomi Ehrich: A Ceremonialist for our Time
On Talk of the Bay Christine Barrington interviews Naomi Ehrich, an award-winning wedding officiant and ceremony leader, modern mystic, and high priestess by blood, birth and bone. She writes and performs creatively reimagined, deliciously refreshing, life-affirming,...
Nicole Young Homeschooling Tips for Shelter in Place Parents
On Talk of the Bay Christine Barrington interviews Nicole Young, a business coach, homeschool mentor, and mother who offers insights for parents who find themselves newly become homeschoolers.
Wren Eliot – Living in Santa Cruz
Wren Eliot tells a story about Santa Cruz.
Community Weighs in on Coronavirus
Cabrillo students and callers express their ideas about weathering the quarantine.
Santa Cruz Epidemiologist Will Forest on Coronavirus danger
Here is an interview with Will Forest, an epidemiologist who has worked for the County of Santa Cruz for the past 17 years. He retired in 2018, only to be asked to come back to work for this pandemic response, which he did. On March 14th, Santa Cruz County...
Pandemic Call-In Dream Show
You'll hear calls from Claudia, Chris and Phoebe. They shared their dreams about tigers, bears and derelict buildings relating to fierceness and standing up for ourselves, financial worries and about how difficult times add soulfulness to our lives. Claudia read a...
Australian Fires
Pauline Seales interviewed Antoinette Parakh, a local Zen Buddist preist and family therapist. Antoinette is from Australia and was back there visiting during the terrible fires late 2019. The discussion included ecological destruction, wrought by the fires and some...
The Film Gang Review: Portrait of a Lady on Fire
A simple story of love and love lost becomes a feminist polemic and a meditation on the sensuality of seeing, and being seen, in the new French film by writer/director Céline Sciamma, Portrait of a Lady on Fire. It’s the late 1800’s, and Marianne, an art...
Jeri Bodemar – I Don’t Know
Jeri Bodemar keeps discovering the gifts of listening and of not knowing.
Becky Steinbruner – A Response
Becky Syteinbrunner wants to clear her personal integrity and responds to a March 2 comment on KSQD Talk of the Bay.
Is it time to buy an electric car? Learn the pros and cons with Ecology Action’s Piet Canin
The electric car market is bursting with possibilities, and Ecology Action's Piet Canin is excited to tell you all about it. How far can you drive in an electric car? Can you have one if you live in an apartment? Is it really more efficient than a gas car? Canin gives...
Steve Pleich – Human Rights For All
Steve Pleich talks about Human Rights for All.
“Is the Constitution in Crisis?”
"Is the Constitution in Crisis?" The Constitution is being strenuously tested. How is our Constitution being adhered to or challenged today? Or, is it just a quaint piece of paper as former AG Roberto Gonzales once stated? What are the impacts of the hostility between...





















