Dr. Sharon Collinge of Environmental Studies at University of Colorado Boulder

March 8th, 2008 andrea

Sharon Collinge
After a little shaky start due to my continuing cold, Klew and I conducted a wonderful interview with Dr. Sharon Collinge, professor of Environmental Studies at University of Colorado Boulder about climate, habitats and her current work studying Prairie Dogs and plague. Apologies for the abrupt ending.


photo by Klew Williams

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Dr. Paulette Middleton discusses Air Quality Science, Aesthetics and Policy

February 12th, 2008 andrea

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Yesterday I spoke with Boulder air quality scientist Paulette Middleton, whose work with NCAR, NOAA, the EPA has been instrumental in improving air quality along the front range and internationally. We talked about how air quality issues intersect with climate change, public policy and perception, modeling emissions and raising public awareness.

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More Weird Glacier Sounds

January 4th, 2008 andrea

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Today Hassan and I went to visit a couple more LTER met stations, one on top of Commonwealth Glacier in Taylor Valley. If you put a mic right down to the surface, the sound of a glacier is incredibly reverberant, almost as sound was going into a giant hollow space with highly reflective walls or through a tangled matrix of hollow glass tubes. It was too cold to record any melting sounds underneath the surface, but I was able to scrape and otherwise manipulate the surface to get some interesting and weird sounds. What I find weird in this short mono recording is the kind of high pitched squeaking and clicking that occurs behind the main scraping sound.

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Adelie Penguin Chicks at Cape Royds

January 1st, 2008 andrea

cape royds
If you listen carefully to this very short recording, you can hear the tiny peeping of adelie penguin chicks:

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Skua Attack at Cape Royds

January 1st, 2008 andrea

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There are several skua nests around the penguin colonies at Cape Royds. This is what happens when you get a little too close (you can hear 2 skuas in this 30 second recording, the one that starts making noise sounds to me like a person pretending to be a skua, but I assure you it is the actual sound of one):

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