Nature Notes
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Nature Notes, hosted by Mel Harte, is a weekly program that explores the world around us, from the wildlife just up the trail to the things growing right beneath our feet. Nature Notes is produced at the KBUT studios in Crested Butte, Colorado, and is aired every Sunday at 4:30 PM from late June to early August. Please click on the underlined links below to listen to this season's archived editions of Nature Notes. (Note: These link to large mp3 files that may take a minute or two to download).
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2012 Episodes:
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July 15 - Mel Harte talks with Jeff Mitton, an ecologist from the University of Colorado at Boulder, about that curious and shiny stuff called Desert Varnish.
July 22 - Mel Harte interviews John Harte, an ecologist from the University of California at Berkeley, about the influence of snowmelt and its influence on mountain ecosystems.
July 29 - Mel Harte again talks with Jeff Mitton about jackrabbits and jackalopes!
August 5 - Mel Harte interviews David Inouye, an ecologist at the University of Maryland, regarding this season's unusually early snowmelt and its effects on wildflowers.
August 12 - Mel Harte talks with Paul Ehrlich, the noted Stanford biologist, as he describes the many ways in which unsustainable population growth is undermining humanity's future.
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2011 Episodes:
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2010 Episodes:
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June 27, 2010 |
How monumental are changes in the monument plant's behavior? |
David Inouye, an ecologist from the University of Maryland who has been doing research at the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory for decades.
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July 4, 2010 |
The effects of dust storms on our mountain ecosystems -- part one. |
Chris Landry, director for the Center of Snow and Avalanche science in Silverton, Colorado.
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July 11, 2010 |
The effects of dust storms on our mountain ecosystems -- part two.
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Chris Landry, director for the Center of Snow and Avalanche science in Silverton, Colorado. |
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July 25, 2010 |
A tribute Steve Schneider. |
Steve Schneider, who recently passed. Mel Harte recaps some of Steve's most important contributions to the study of climate change. |
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August 1, 2010 |
We talk about the relationship between the fire moth and its colorful host flower. |
Jeff Mitton, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Colorado in Boulder. We talk about the relationship between the fire moth and its colorful host flower. |
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August 8, 2010 |
How the tortoise beetle uses a mint to defend itself. |
Jeff Mitton, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Colorado in Boulder. |
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August 15, 2010 |
How species go extinct. |
Paul Ehrlich, Bing professor of population biology at Stanford University. |
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2009 Episodes:
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June 14, 2009
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How Will Mountain Flies Adapt to Climate Change?
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Dr. Anneli Hoikkala, University of Uvaskala, Finland, has been studying courtship and mating in flies for over 30 years. |
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June 21, 2009
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Citizen Scientist |
David Inouye, an ecologist from the University of Maryland who has been researching wildflowers at the Rocky Mountain Biological Lab for several decades. |
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June 28, 2009 |
The World of Parasites |
Johannes Foufopoulos, University of Michigan, who has spent several summers at the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory, researching parasites in white crowned sparrows. |
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July 5, 2009 |
Cool The Earth, Save The Economy |
John Harte, a world renowned, award winning scientist from the University of California at Berkeley, who has just written a primer on global warming: what it is and its consequences, left unchecked; the book also reviews and assesses the technologies and policies available to solve the climate crisis. It is available online only as a free download at: http://www.cooltheearth.us/. |
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July 12, 2009 |
All About Fire In Nature |
Erica Newman, a fire ecologist from the University of California, Berkeley and the Center for Fire Research and Outreach, who researches wildfire's interactions with climate and biodiversity. |
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July 19, 2009
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Small Fungi With Big Impacts |
Jennifer Rudgers, a professor at Rice University who studies endophytic microfungi. |
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July 26, 2009
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The Dominant Animal |
Paul Ehrlich, Bing professor of population biology at Stanford University. |
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August 2, 2009
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The Seasonal Timing of Pollinators |
Jessica Forest of the University of Toronto who has been researching pollinators at the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory in Gothic, Colorado in the summer of 2009 |
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2008 Episodes:
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June 22, 2008
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Globarl Warming Affects on the Arctic
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Nature Notes recorded from a Russian icebreaker working north of Siberia. |
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June 29, 2008
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What's Happening To The Bees?
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David Inouye, an ecologist from the University of Maryland who has been researching wildflowers at the Rocky Mountain Biological Lab for several decades. |
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July 6, 2008 |
Solving Global Warming
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John Harte, an ecologist from the Univesity of California at Berkeley who has been conducting research on the effects of global warming on a subalpine meadow at the Rocky Mountain Biological Lab for 18 years. |
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July 13, 2008 |
The Call of the Marmot
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Dan Blumstein, an ecologist from the University of California at Los Angeles who studies marmot behavior. |
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July 20, 2008 |
The Dominant Animal |
Paul Ehlich, a biologist from Stanford University who has been conducting research at the Rocky Mountain Biological Lab for half a century.
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July 27, 2008 |
Climate and the Phenology of Plants |
Abe Miller-Rushing, a biologist from the University of Maryland who has been studying the climate and phrenology of plants.
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August 3, 2008
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How Many Plants Will Survive the Twenty-first Century?
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Peter Raven, perhaps the most eminent botanist alive today. This is a synopsis of his Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory presentation.
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August 10, 2008 |
Tracking Biodiversity Up the Mountain
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Christine Lamanna, a biologist from the University of Arizona who studies how soil and plant biodiversity changes with elevation.
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Please join us next season for another round of Nature Notes, heard only on KBUT! |
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