This week on Santa Cruz Naturalist Emily chats with UCSC graduate candidate Kelley Voss (and SCN co-host) about her work on octopuses. This is part 1 of an interview with Kelley. Tune in on the week of July 15, 2019 for part 2.

This week on Santa Cruz Naturalist, Emily Donham takes a walk through the intertidal with Dr. Kristen Heady-Kusic to search for some of her favorite seaweeds. 

This week on Santa Cruz Naturalist Emily chats with Dr. Gina Contolini to learn about some of her dissertation work in the rocky intertidal found along Westcliff. Her work focuses on marine snails that spit acid to dissolve the shells of their prey, mussels. Tune in to learn more!

This week on Santa Cruz Naturalist Emily ventures into the woods surrounding Aptos with local mushroom expert, Philip Carpenter. If you'd like to learn more about mushrooms around Santa Cruz (and beyond) please visit the Fungus Federation of Santa Cruz at: http://ffsc.us/

This week on Santa Cruz Naturalist, Emily Donham chats with Dr. Josh Smith about some his work on kelp forests in Monterey Bay. He explains how changes to predators and prey can have major impacts on kelp within the bay.

On the first episode of Santa Cruz Naturalist Emily chats with Sarah Lummis, UCSC graduate student and seagrass expert, as she explores the seagrass beds found along East Cliffs rocky intertidal.