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Climate has enormous impacts on the marine life off California, influencing its major fisheries and the abundance of krill, seabirds and mammals. Join Tony Koslow as he shows how a 60-year ocean observation program, the California Cooperative Oceanic Fisheries Investigations (or CalCOFI) is unraveling the impacts of the El Niño/La Niña cycle and human-induced climate. Series: Perspectives on Ocean Science [Science] [Show ID: 17804]

Understanding Newton's laws and its consequences on Earth and in space can be a challenge for students, as well as for teachers. Join physicist, project ASTRO ambassador Philip Blanco as he makes the basic ideas worked out by Galileo, Newton and others accessible and engaging with experiments, animations, and selected video clips from our recent but rich history of space exploration. Series: TeacherTECH [Science] [Education] [Show ID: 17238]

Andy Fisher is a hydrogeologist at UC Santa Cruz who studies the interactions between surface water and ground water. Over the past decade his research has focused on the Pajaro Valley in California. The Pajaro Valley aquifer provides more than 90 percent of the water used by the area's residents, businesses, and farmers. He explains that this crucial water supply is in grave danger of running out. [Science] [Show ID: 17128]

Recent technological advances have brought us to a new era in ocean research - one in which an integrated network of ocean observing systems provides researchers with a continuous scientific presence in the ocean. Join John Orcutt as he describes how these observatories will allow researchers, students, politicians, and the public to access near-real-time data, control sensors and autonomous underwater vehicles remotely, view live video and images from the seafloor, and collaborate in thousands...

The effects of a changing climate cut a broad swathe across the landscape, as sea levels rise, rainfall patterns change, and storm events intensify. Climate-change challenges have provided impetus for rethinking urban landscapes, structures, and infrastructure and their relationship to surrounding lands and waters. Series: Scientific Horizons [Science] [Show ID: 18189]

Kathleen Burke of UCSF outlines some proactive strategies that patients can take to help prevent medical errors. Kathleen Burke is a staff nurse at UCSF and serves as Chair of the UCSF Patient Safety Fellows ~ Nurse Champions for Patient Safety. Series: Women's Health Today [Health and Medicine] [Science] [Show ID: 17227]

Leon Lederman was co-winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1988. He recalls his life after being discharged from the U.S. Army after WWII. From a returning troop ship docking at the Battery in New York, he hastened uptown to register as a graduate student in physics at Columbia University. His story sketches major events from there to the Nobel Prize celebration for the discovery of the muon neutrino, proving that there are at least two families of neutrinos. Series: UC Berkeley Graduate Council...

Megan McArthur, Astronaut and UC San Diego graduate who served on the final Hubble Space Telescope servicing mission, discusses the experience of becoming an astronaut. Series: On Beyond [Science] [Show ID: 17782]

In this edition of CARTA's Human and Non-Human Cultures Series, renowned researchers Donald Brown of UC Santa Barbara and UC San Diego's Jonathan Friedman and Rupert Stasch discuss universal qualities that distinguish human cultures from non-human cultures, how order naturally emerges in the world of humans and non-humans to become their respective cultures, and how reflexivity and the use of culture is important to creating culture and its norms. Series: "CARTA - Center for Academic Research and...

Meet students in the Bay Area who are finding ways to improve the health of our seas based on the book "50 Ways to Save the Ocean." This documentary was sponsored by Oracle on behalf of the DigitalOcean project out of University of California, Santa Barbara, and was produced by Outhink Media. The DigitalOcean Network connects scientists and enthusiasts around the sustainability of our Oceans. [Science] [Show ID: 18010]