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  • Blue Dot: Going nuclear? A conversation about atomic power with British scientist and author Tim Gregory

    Blue Dot: Going nuclear? A conversation about atomic power with British scientist and author Tim Gregory
    Aug 15 2025
    Host Dave Schlom visits with Tim Gregory, a senior nuclear chemist at the United Kingdom National Nuclear Laboratory at Sellafield, Cumbria. Gregory is the author of Going Nuclear: How Atomic Energy Will Save the World, published in the US by Pegasus Books.
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    52 min
  • Blue Dot: On the frontiers of philosophy and physics: a conversation with Caltech's Chip Sebens

    Blue Dot: On the frontiers of philosophy and physics: a conversation with Caltech's Chip Sebens
    Aug 8 2025
    Host Dave Schlom is joined by California Institute of Technology Philosophy Professor Chip Sebens for an engaging look at how philosophical thought and methodology can help unravel the mysteries of modern Physics.
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    52 min
  • Best of Blue Dot: Ocean science at UC San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography

    Best of Blue Dot: Ocean science at UC San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography
    Aug 1 2025
    Host Dave Schlom is joined by guests from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of San Diego to profile the ocean science being done at one of the world's most important and historic places to study our blue planet.
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    52 min
  • Best of Blue Dot: The challenge of California's growing wolf population

    Best of Blue Dot: The challenge of California's growing wolf population
    Jul 25 2025
    Host Dave Schlom is joined by two University of California at Davis researchers and the state's gray wolf coordinator to learn more about how California's steadily growing wolf population is affecting cattle ranchers and communities in rural Northern California.
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    52 min
  • Blue Dot: Climate change through Earth history: UC Davis paleoclimatologist Isabel Montañez

    Blue Dot: Climate change through Earth history: UC Davis paleoclimatologist Isabel Montañez
    Jul 18 2025
    Host Dave Schlom visits with Isabel Montañez, Distinguished Professor in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at UC Davis.
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    52 min
  • Best of Blue Dot: New Sáttítla Highlands National Monument overview with Sam Davidson and Brandy McDaniels

    Best of Blue Dot: New Sáttítla Highlands National Monument overview with Sam Davidson and Brandy McDaniels
    Jul 11 2025
    Host Dave Schlom is joined by Sam Davidson from Trout Unlimited and Brandy McDaniels from the Pit River Nation for an in-depth look at the newly designated Sáttítla Highlands National Monument.
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    52 min
  • Blue Dot: Exploring California's Native Trees with Matt Ritter and Michael Kauffmann

    Blue Dot: Exploring California's Native Trees with Matt Ritter and Michael Kauffmann
    Jul 4 2025
    Host Dave Schlom is joined by Backcountry Press Publisher Michael Kauffmann along with Cal Poly San Luis Obispo botany professor Matt Ritter. Both combined to author the superb new book, California Trees: A Field Guide to the Native Species.
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    52 min
  • Best of Blue Dot: Microplastics in the marine environment

    Best of Blue Dot: Microplastics in the marine environment
    Jun 27 2025
    Host Dave Schlom is joined by Zeke Spooner, a Ph.D student at the UC Davis Bodega Marine Laboratory, to discuss microplastics.
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    52 min