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Blue Dot Blue Dot, named after Carl Sagan's famous speech about our place in the universe, features interviews with guests from all over the regional, national and worldwide scientific communities. Host Dave Schlom leads discussions about the issues science is helping us address with experts who shed light on climate change, space exploration, astronomy, technology and much more. Dave asks us to remember: from deep space, we all live on a pale, blue dot. Airs Fridays at 10 a.m.
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Blue Dot

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Blue Dot, named after Carl Sagan's famous speech about our place in the universe, features interviews with guests from all over the regional, national and worldwide scientific communities. Host Dave Schlom leads discussions about the issues science is helping us address with experts who shed light on climate change, space exploration, astronomy, technology and much more. Dave asks us to remember: from deep space, we all live on a pale, blue dot. Airs Fridays at 10 a.m.

Most Recent Episodes

Best of Blue Dot: The fascinating lives (really!) of chickens with author Sy Montgomery

Host Dave Schlom visits with nature and wildlife writer Sy Montgomery, whose Soul of An Octopus was a National Book Award finalist, about her latest work, What The Chicken Knows: A New Appreciation of the World's Most Familiar Bird.

Best of Blue Dot: The fascinating lives (really!) of chickens with author Sy Montgomery

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Blue Dot: Ocean science at UC San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography

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.

Blue Dot: Ocean science at UC San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography

Listen · 51:37

Blue Dot: New Sáttítla Highlands National Monument overview with Sam Davidson and Brandy McDaniels

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.

Blue Dot: New Sáttítla Highlands National Monument overview with Sam Davidson and Brandy McDaniels

Listen · 51:37

Blue Dot: The Hawaiian Volcano Observatory

Blue Dot continues its series of profiles for the United States Geological Survey's volcano observatories with a visit to the granddaddy of them all — the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory (HVO) on the big island of Hawaii.

Blue Dot: Looking for life in alien oceans with Dr. Kevin Hand

Host Dave Schlom is joined by NASA planetary scientist Kevin Hand for a fascinating, in-depth (pun perhaps intended) look at the search for life in the oceans of alien worlds like Jupiter's moon Europa and the Saturnian satellite Enceladus.

Blue Dot: Microplastics in the marine environment

Host Dave Schlom is joined by Zeke Spooner, a Ph.D student at the UC Davis Bodega Marine Laboratory, to discuss microplastics.

Blue Dot: Mussels and a scientific detective story at Bodega Marine Lab and ocean acidific...

Host Dave Schlom is joined by two researchers who have connections to UC Davis's Bodega Marine Laboratory on the Northern California coast.

Blue Dot: Mussels and a scientific detective story at Bodega Marine Lab and ocean acidific...

Listen · 51:36

Blue Dot: The social cost of carbon and storing carbon in building materials

Host Dave Schlom visits with two UC Davis professors to discuss one of the most important yet problematic elements on the Periodic Table: Carbon.

Blue Dot: The social cost of carbon and storing carbon in building materials

Listen · 51:37

Blue Dot: Welcome to the Pyrocene— an in-depth look at the role of fire on our planet and ...

In the wake of the massive Southern California wildfires, Blue Dot turns its scientific lens on the role fire has played on our planet and how that is changing along with the climate.

Blue Dot: Welcome to the Pyrocene— an in-depth look at the role of fire on our planet and ...

Listen · 51:37

Blue Dot: Gerry Griffin and the movies! A NASA legend and his roles in Hollywood films

Host Dave Schlom visits with his good friend retired NASA Flight Director Gerry Griffin. But instead of talking about the space program, this time, they discuss Griffin's amazing experiences on major studio film projects.

Blue Dot: Gerry Griffin and the movies! A NASA legend and his roles in Hollywood films

Listen · 51:37
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