Podcasts about bull kelp

Mendocino's Bull Kelp Disaster Captured on FilmFor years, KZYX news has covered the devastation of the bull kelp forest off the Mendocino Coast, and its resulting impacts, including purple urchin barrens, the loss of the abalone and red urchin fisheries, the economic impacts on coastal businesses and local communities, and the related demise of the sunflower sea stars. Sequoias of the Sea is a documentary about this bull kelp disaster. Directed by Natasha Benjamin and Anna Blanco, it will be featured nationally and internationally at a long list of film festivals and climate conferences. And it's showing at the Mendocino Film Festival on May 30th.  It looks back at the last seven years and what amounted to an emergency response from the local community. Most of the people featured in the documentary live and work on the coast in a variety of professions. They all have one thing in common: bring back the kelp. Benjamin and Blanco spoke to KZYX about their inspiration for the documentary. In the film, they cover many aspects of the story and engage with scientists, local tribes, fishermen, and sport divers.  For more information, you can access their website at sequoiasofthesea.org

Drought issues and the dark side of the moon

Bradley Parks reports.

Bull kelp is the dominant species in offshore kelp forests north of Santa Cruz, California along the west coast of North America.  Bull kelp has similar physical structures to terrestrial plants; it anchors to the ocean floor with root-like structures called holdfasts, and has stem-like structures called stipes from which leaf-like blades stretch out through […]

The underwater seaweed forests once supported species such as salmon, crabs, and jellyfish. Learn more at https://www.yaleclimateconnections.org/

On today's program, further mining damage to Aboriginal cultural heritage sites revealed in NSW, and a Tasmanian composer who has made an amplifier for her violin from bull kelp

A lesson in Alutiiq language and culture about kelp.

Ecological science has had a persistent blind spot: the deep involvement of Indigenous peoples in managing their lands and waters. The return of Sea Otters from the brink of extinction, while celebrated, was enacted under a framework of settler colonialism. As voracious predators themselves, otters compete with humans for all of the same sea foods. One shellfish in particular has become a flash point for fisheries – a modest mollusc, Haliotis kamtschatkana: Northern Abalone. This is part two of our three-part series on kelp worlds. Click here to listen to part one, Trophic Cascadia (https://www.futureecologies.net/listen/fe-2-7-trophic-cascadia) . This episode features Kii'iljuus Barbara Wilson, Anne Salomon, and Charles Menzies. For a full list of music credits, citations, and more, head over to https://www.futureecologies.net/listen/fe-2-8-ocean-people (https://www.futureecologies.net/listen/fe-2-8-ocean-people) To support the work that we do, and to get access to monthly bonus mini-episodes, a community Discord, and more, pay what you can at https://www.patreon.com/futureecologies (https://www.patreon.com/futureecologies) Bull Kelp artwork by Sarah Jim (https://www.faroutart.ca/) Support this podcast

New research shows that bull kelp along a tectonically uplifted stretch of coast south of Dunedin has a surprisingly different genetic signature to the kelp on either side.

New research shows that bull kelp along a tectonically uplifted stretch of coast south of Dunedin has a surprisingly different genetic signature to the kelp on either side.

Brainy Thing:   11:37  Behind the Redwood Curtain:  24:21 Catherine has declare “Hat Day” by knitting Marsha McCormack’s “Easy Watch Cap With A Twist” http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/easy-watch-cap-with-a-twist.  Marsha designs under the name of Lena’s Legacy Hand Knits, honoring her grandmother who taught her to knit.   The pattern is free.  Catherine also knit the "Countless Baby Hat”  http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/countless-baby-hata free top down pattern by Cindy Davies that features a little i-chord twist at the top. Margaret practiced working with double pointed needles on a free eyeball pattern http://www.knitpicks.com/patterns/Eyeballs__D55679220.html  featured on the Knit Picks site and designed by Stana D. Sortor.   Brainy Thing:  Gratitude Changes Your Brain For some time people have recognized that actively practicing gratitude can improve our moods but Catherine has found research that shows that gratitude practice can change our brains for the better.     Research by Glenn R Fox et al reports their research:  http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01491/full.  Also cited by Catherine is this research:  https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4588123/   Behind the Redwood Curtain:  Bull Kelp  aka Bull Whip Kelp etc.   Margaret tells the tale about how sharing her grandson’s “screen time” of the Octonauts, she learned more about the plant life behind the Redwood Curtain.  Giant Kelp Forest episode on Octonauts:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szJd0rGJUTA  and source on what it looks like when it washes up on shore:  http://www.seaweedsofalaska.com/species.asp?SeaweedID=47   10 things you can do with Bull Kelp:  https://oceans52.wordpress.com/2015/03/21/10-cool-things-you-can-do-with-bull-kelp/    Monterey Bay Aquarium:https://www.montereybayaquarium.org/animal-guide/plants-and-algae/bull-kelp   Knitting Tip:      You can stuff tiny places in your knitting with a mosquito clamp.  http://www.surgical-instrument-pictures.com/instrument-index-kelly-mosquito.html   A Little Podcast Business: Learn-along 2016   Links: Facebook:  Also, join our Facebook Group  https://www.facebook.com/Teachingyourbraintoknitpodcast/?ref=aymt_homepage_panel Ravelry Group  http://www.ravelry.com/groups/teaching-your-brain-to-knit website https://teachingyourbraintoknit.com/ for show notes, photos of our knitting and crochet projects, Behind the Redwood Curtain places and things and anything else we decide to post.     Today in Teaching Your Brain to Knit how gratitude not only changes your attitude but changes your brain, Catherine declares Hat Day, Margaret learns knitting techniques by knitting eyeballs, how a children’s television show can lead to understanding your own environment, and repurposing surgical instruments into knitting tools.  

Tonight we’ve got a duo of exciting new duos playing tonight at Times Change(d) (which is easily twice as great as any other venue in town.) Starting us off is Jesse Dee & Jacquie B, from Wells BC, who stop by to introduce us to their music. Next up is a couple of friends we’ve seen a fair bit lately with hot roots rock group Fish & Bird, but now they’re doing something a little quieter as Bull Kelp. We also preview Saturday’s big battle between veteran heavyweight James McMurtry and the feisty young scrapper, Danny Michel.

Tonight we’ve got a duo of exciting new duos playing tonight at Times Change(d) (which is easily twice as great as any other venue in town.) Starting us off is Jesse Dee & Jacquie B, from Wells BC, who stop by to introduce us to their music. Next up is a couple of friends we’ve seen a fair bit lately with hot roots rock group Fish & Bird, but now they’re doing something a little quieter as Bull Kelp. We also preview Saturday’s big battle between veteran heavyweight James McMurtry and the feisty young scrapper, Danny Michel.

Tonight we’ve got a duo of exciting new duos playing tonight at Times Change(d) (which is easily twice as great as any other venue in town.) Starting us off is Jesse Dee & Jacquie B, from Wells BC, who stop by to introduce us to their music. Next up is a couple of friends we’ve seen a fair bit lately with hot roots rock group Fish & Bird, but now they’re doing something a little quieter as Bull Kelp. We also preview Saturday’s big battle between veteran heavyweight James McMurtry and the feisty young scrapper, Danny Michel.