Niki Sridhar continues her conversation with Aspen Ellis, discussing conservation strategies for protecting seabird populations. 

On this episode, Niki Sridhar speaks with PhD student at UC Santa Cruz, Aspen Ellis, about the life of a seabird ecologist and why seabirds are quite an extraordinary taxonomic group!

In this week's episode of Santa Cruz Naturalist, Chloe wraps up their series on the Norris Center by speaking with Dr. Gizelle Hurtado about community and outreach events, and where the field of natural history is going over the next 20 years.

Even though this series is at an end, you can still visit the Norris Center! For more information, including the current operating hours, check out https://norriscenter.ucsc.edu/

This week on Santa Cruz Naturalist, Chloe sits down with Dr. Gizelle Hurtado, Assistant Director of the Norris Center.  We hear about Dr. Hurtado's background and some of the amazing work she does at the Norris Center

Chloe continues their conversation with Dr. Andy Kulikowski, the lead entomologist at the Kenneth S. Norris Center for Natural History at UC Santa Cruz.  Dr. Kulikowski talks about how the Norris Center interfaces with education and conservation, and tells us about some interesting specimens in the museum.

Norris Center Fall 2022 hours:

Monday - Thursday 10am - 4pm

Friday 10am - 2pm

In this episode, Niki Sridhar speaks with UC Santa Cruz PhD student, Aspen Ellis all about seabirds. Tune in and learn about the importance of seabirds in the ecosystem and different seabird conservation techniques.

Chloe interviews expert entomologist Dr. Andy Kulikowski, to talk about his background as a naturalist and the future of natural history.

In this week's episode, and the second in the Norris Center series, Chloe continues her interview with Dmitrius Rodriguez, and together they speculate about the future of natural history.

This week on Santa Cruz Naturalist, Nikka interviews Chloe Rickards, M.A. in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, about the mind-controlling Cordyceps fungus, which served as the inspiration for their award-winning entry for the Coha-Gunderson Prize in Speculative Futures at the UCSC Humanities Institute. To see the pieces we reference, check out Chloe's Instagram: @clo.makes.art 

In this second-parter interview with Sarah Mastroni, we learn more about the red algae responsible for lowering methane emissions from dairy cows.