20 episodes

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.

Blue Dot Dave Schlom, Matt Fidler

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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.

    Blue Dot: 1906: The Great Northern California Earthquake Pt. 1

    Blue Dot: 1906: The Great Northern California Earthquake Pt. 1

    Host Dave Schlom teams up with scientists from the United States Geological Survey for part one of a two-part in-depth look at the massive earthquake that struck Northern California on April 18, 1906.

    • 51 min
    Blue Dot: One of California's truly special places: Angelo Coast Range Reserve

    Blue Dot: One of California's truly special places: Angelo Coast Range Reserve

    Host 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.

    • 51 min
    Blue Dot: The Rescue Effect: a conversation with author and environmental scientist Michael Mehta Webster

    Blue Dot: The Rescue Effect: a conversation with author and environmental scientist Michael Mehta Webster

    Host 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.

    • 51 min
    Blue Dot: The process of subduction with geophysicist Magali Billen, UC Davis

    Blue Dot: The process of subduction with geophysicist Magali Billen, UC Davis

    Host 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.

    • 51 min
    Best of Blue Dot: Whale-SETI: a communications interaction with Twain the Humpback Whale

    Best of Blue Dot: Whale-SETI: a communications interaction with Twain the Humpback Whale

    In 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.

    • 51 min
    Blue Dot: Eagles 101: the lives of eagles and the eagle cam phenomenon!

    Blue Dot: Eagles 101: the lives of eagles and the eagle cam phenomenon!

    Bald 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.

    • 51 min

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