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Synopsis
Blue Dot, named after Carl Sagan's famous speech about our place in the universe, features interviews with guests from all over the regional, national and worldwide scientific communities. Host Dave Schlom leads discussions about the issues science is helping us address with experts who shed light on climate change, space exploration, astronomy, technology and much more. Dave asks us to remember: from deep space, we all live on a pale, blue dot.
Episodes
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Blue Dot: One of California's truly special places: Angelo Coast Range Reserve
07/06/2024 Duration: 51minHost Dave Schlom talks to Reserve Caretaker Peter Steel, whose grandparents Heath and Marjorie Angelo deeded the land to the Nature Conservancy in 1959, making it the first Nature Conservancy landholding in the western United States.
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Blue Dot: The Rescue Effect: a conversation with author and environmental scientist Michael Mehta Webster
31/05/2024 Duration: 51minHost Dave Schlom visits with NYU Environmental Studies Professor Michael Mehta Webster to discuss his book, The Rescue Effect: The Key to Saving Life on Earth. Webster is an environmental scientist with a fascinating take on how nature has built in mechanisms that serve to preserve species and ecosystems in times of stress or disruptions.
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Blue Dot: The process of subduction with geophysicist Magali Billen, UC Davis
24/05/2024 Duration: 51minHost Dave Schlom visits with UC Davis Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences geophysics professor Magali Billen to talk about one of Earth's most dynamic and complex processes, subduction.
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Best of Blue Dot: Whale-SETI: a communications interaction with Twain the Humpback Whale
17/05/2024 Duration: 51minIn this very special episode, Host Dave Schlom visits with three researchers who were part of an incredible series of experimental communications with a humpback whale off the coast of Alaska.
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Blue Dot: Eagles 101: the lives of eagles and the eagle cam phenomenon!
10/05/2024 Duration: 51minBald and golden eagles are some of the most magnificent birds in North America. Host Dave Schlom is joined by Michelle Hawkins, Director of The California Raptor Center at UC Davis, for an in-depth look at eagles, from their amazing conservation success story to the threats they still face from humans.
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Blue Dot: Musings on the Moon with author Christopher Cokinos
03/05/2024 Duration: 51minHost Dave Schlom finds a kindred spirit with Christopher Cokinos, author of the new book, Still as Bright: An Illuminating History of the Moon from Antiquity to Tomorrow.
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Best of Blue Dot: Here Begins The Dark Sea: a conversation with author Meredith F. Small on the Fra Mauro map
26/04/2024 Duration: 51minHost Dave Schlom visits with best-selling author and award-winning anthropologist Meredith F. Small to talk about her new book, Here Begins The Dark Sea: Venice, a Medieval Monk and the Creation of the Most Accurate Map of The World.
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Blue Dot: The amazing undersea world of sharks with Dave Ebert, aka "The Lost Shark Guy"
19/04/2024 Duration: 51minHost Dave Schlom visits with one of the world's foremost experts on sharks, Dr. David Ebert.
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Blue Dot: Nature's soaring scavengers: the Vulture Family
12/04/2024 Duration: 51minHost Dave Schlom investigates the world of vultures and condors with the Director of the UC Davis California Raptor Center, Michelle Hawkins.
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Best of Blue Dot: The story of America's first women astronauts with Loren Grush
05/04/2024 Duration: 51minHost Dave Schlom is joined by Bloomberg News science reporter Loren Grush to talk about her new book, The Six: The Untold Story of America's First Women Astronauts.
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Blue Dot: State of the Drake Equation in 2024: The search for extraterrestrial intelligence (Part Two)
29/03/2024 Duration: 51minIn the conclusion of Blue Dot's two part look at the state of the Drake Equation in 2024, Host Dave Schlom is once again joined by special co host Bill Diamond, President and CEO of the SETI Institute in Mountain View, California.
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Blue Dot: State of the Drake Equation in 2024: The search for extraterrestrial intelligence (Part One)
22/03/2024 Duration: 51minHost Dave Schlom is joined by special co-host Bill Diamond, President and CEO of the SETI Institute, for an in-depth look at the state of the famous Drake Equation.
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Best of Blue Dot: Preparing for the next Great American Eclipse: a visit with Rick Fienberg
15/03/2024 Duration: 51minHost Dave Schlom is joined by Sky and Telescope magazine senior contributing editor Rick Fienberg to preview the big celestial event coming up soon, the total solar eclipse on April 8, 2024.
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Blue Dot: Riparian restoration with River Partners
08/03/2024 Duration: 51minHost Dave Schlom visits with guests from River Partners, a conservation organization born of a vision of farmers with conservation interests who sought more of a cooperative rather than confrontational approach to watershed restoration projects.
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Blue Dot: Exploring the ancient world of the Neanderthals with Ludovic Slimak
01/03/2024 Duration: 51minHost Dave Schlom visits with French archaeologist and paleoanthropologist Ludovic Slimak about his multi-decadal research into Neanderthals. Author of the new book, The Naked Neanderthal: a New Understanding of The Human Creature (Pegasus Books), Slimak is one of the world's foremost experts on these enigmatic and often misrepresented beings that disappeared from Earth about 40,000 years ago.
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Best of Blue Dot: Drs. Hall joins forces to talk about "Science and Nonsense"
23/02/2024 Duration: 51minCSU Chico Professor of Physics Kendall Hall joins Host Dave Schlom once again as a special co-host. They talk to her father, Raymond, who is also a physics professor.
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Blue Dot: Education and research at the UC Natural Reserves System and National Parks
16/02/2024 Duration: 51minHost Dave Schlom looks at some interesting ways the University of California's Natural Reserves System is used for education and scientific research.
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Best of Blue Dot: California Against the Sea: a conversation with Rosanna Xia
09/02/2024 Duration: 51minHost Dave Schlom is joined by Rosanna Xia, environmental journalist for the Los Angeles Times to discuss her book, California Against The Sea: Visions for Our Vanishing Coastline.
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Blue Dot: Whale-SETI: a communications interaction with Twain the Humpback Whale
02/02/2024 Duration: 51minIn this very special episode, Host Dave Schlom visits with three researchers who were part of an incredible series of experimental communications with a humpback whale off the coast of Alaska.
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Blue Dot: Monitoring surface water from space: Surface Water and Ocean Topography mission
26/01/2024 Duration: 51minTwo scientists join host Dave Schlom to discuss the Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) mission which launched in December of 2022.