Podcast appearances and mentions of Sarah Parcak

Sarah Parcak was born in Bangor, Maine on the 23rd of November 1978. She attended Bangor High School before reading Egyptology and Archaeology at Yale University. She then studied here in Cambridge under the supervision of the world-renowned Egyptologist Barry Kemp. After that, she was a teacher at Swansea University and then also at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.She pioneered the use of tech to advance archaeology, including the use of detailed satellite images, which has earned her the nickname "The Space Archaeologist". Sarah's discovered literally thousands of forgotten... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

From Ringworld to Rama, space is full of mysterious giant objects created by ancient civilizations. Do these gorgeous macrostructures bring poetry to the prosaic genre of space opera? Or do we love them for some other reason? Also, we talk to  archeologist Sarah Parcak about space archeology and what it teaches us about ancient civilizations.

Who really built the pyramids? Neil deGrasse Tyson and Chuck Nice learn about space archaeology, LIDAR, and discovering tombs, pyramids, and new Nazca lines with space archaeologist Sarah Parcak. NOTE: StarTalk+ Patrons can listen to this entire episode commercial-free here: https://startalkmedia.com/show/space-archaeology-with-sarah-parcak/Thanks to our Patrons Bo Cribbs, Anna Wheatley, Fred Gibson, David Griffith, Micheal Richards, Advynturer, Vici Bradsher, Terry Migliorino, Lingji Chen, and Audrey Lynch for supporting us this week.

From recent research we know that the great boy king Tutankhamun was a result of incest.How did it effect him? And was incest in Ancient Egypt mostly for symbolic reasons of retaining power, or did it go further than that?Joining Kate today is the wonderful Sarah Parcak, archaeologist and Egyptologist, to help us find out more. Importantly, they also touch on why the Ancient Egyptians found lettuce sexy.This episode was edited by Tom Delargy and produced by Stuart Beckwith. The senior producer was Charlotte Long.Voting is open for the Listener's Choice Award at the British Podcast Awards, so if you enjoy what we're doing, we'd love it if you took a quick follow this link and click on Betwixt the Sheets: https://www.britishpodcastawards.com/votingEnjoy unlimited access to award-winning original documentaries that are released weekly and AD-FREE podcasts. Get a subscription for £1 per month for 3 months with code BETWIXT sign up at https://www.historyhit.com/subscription/You can take part in our listener survey here.

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In this episode we discuss the book "Archaeology From Space" by Dr. Sarah Parcak.

Sarah has the coolest job: Space Archaeologist.She uses satellites to find undiscovered sites buried deep beneath the ground. But the real interesting stuff is what we can learn about ourselves from studying our past.This is… A Bit of Optimism. Watch Sarah's first TED Talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFC5CwZVCEw&themeRefresh=1Watch Egypt's Lost Cities on the BBC: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b011pwms 

This week, we talk about science writing! Anthropologist and author Sarah Parcak discusses her book Archaeology From Space: How the Future Shapes Our Past with Adler Planetarium astronomer and artist Lucianne Walkowicz. This conversation originally took place August 13th, 2019 and was recorded live at the American Writers Museum. We hope you enjoy entering the [...]

This week, we talk about science writing! Anthropologist and author Sarah Parcak discusses her book Archaeology From Space: How the Future Shapes Our Past with Adler Planetarium astronomer and artist Lucianne Walkowicz. This conversation originally took place August 13th, 2019 and was recorded live at the American Writers Museum. We hope you enjoy entering the [...]

This week we're bringing you an episode of Deep Futures, a podcast hosted by Annalee and produced by Campside Media and Mailchimp. In this episode, Annalee talks to archaeologist Sarah Parcak about the deep history of Egyptian urbanism and the future of cities. You can find more episodes of Deep Futures wherever you get your podcasts!

In Four Lost Cities, acclaimed science journalist Annalee Newitz takes readers on an entertaining and mind-bending adventure into the deep history of urban life. Investigating across the centuries and around the world, Newitz explores the rise and fall of four ancient cities, each the center of a sophisticated civilization: the Neolithic site of Çatalhöyük in Central Turkey, the Roman vacation town of Pompeii on Italy’s southern coast, the medieval megacity of Angkor in Cambodia, and the indigenous metropolis Cahokia, which stood beside the Mississippi River where East St. Louis is today. Newitz travels to all four sites and investigates the cutting-edge research in archaeology, revealing the mix of environmental changes and political turmoil that doomed these ancient settlements. Tracing the early development of urban planning, Newitz also introduces us to the often anonymous workers―slaves, women, immigrants, and manual laborers―who built these cities and created monuments that lasted millennia. Four Lost Cities is a journey into the forgotten past, but, foreseeing a future in which the majority of people on Earth will be living in cities, it may also reveal something of our own fate.

Programa completo de La rosa de los vientos con Silvia Casasola y Bruno Cardeñosa. En Tertulia Zona Cero hablamos de la cepa india del coronavirus. En Ecos del Pasado contamos historias de castillos encantados y conocemos en Mujeres con historia la vida de la arqueóloga que busca tesoros desde el cielo, Sarah Parcak.

Silvia Casasola nos repasa en Mujeres con Historia de La rosa de los vientos la vida de Sarah Parcak, la arqueóloga que busca tesoros desde el cielo.

Annalee Newitz and archaeologist Sarah Parcak on the cities of the future.

What can new technology tell us about our ancient past? Archaeologist and remote sensing expert Sarah Parcak has used satellite imagery to discover over a dozen potential pyramids and thousands of tombs from ancient Egypt. A professor of anthropology and founding director of the Laboratory for Global Observation at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, Sarah’s work combines technology, historical study, and cultural anthropology to advance discoveries about the past while navigating the political and ethical dilemmas that plague excavation work today. She joined Tyler to discuss what caused the Bronze Age Collapse, how well we understand the level of ancient technologies, what archaeologists may learn from the discovery of more than a hundred coffins at the site of Saqqara, how far the Vikings really traveled, why conservation should be as much of a priority as excavation, the economics of looting networks, the inherently political nature of archaeology, Indiana Jones versus The Dig, her favorite contemporary bluegrass artists, the best archaeological sites to visit around the world, the merits of tools like Google Earth and Lidar, the long list of skills needed to be a modern archaeologist, which countries produce the best amateur space archaeologists, and more. Follow us on Twitter and IG: @cowenconvos  Email: cowenconvos@mercatus.gmu.edu Follow Sarah on Twitter Follow Tyler on Twitter Facebook Newsletter

The Phi Beta Kappa Book Awards are presented annually to three outstanding scholarly books published in the United States. The 2020 winners are Leah Price for What We Talk about When We Talk About Books: The History and Future of Reading; Sarah Parcak for Archaeology From Space: How the Future Shapes the Past; and Sarah Seo for Policing the Open Road: How Cars Transformed American Freedom. During the ceremony, the authors shared their thought process that sparked their ideas, marveled at how much our quotidian experiences tell us about the human condition, and reflected on the individuals who spurred them on to pursue the work we honored.

Who knew that we could learn more about Earth’s history by going to space? Archaeologist Sarah Parcak joins us to discuss the field of space archaeology, which uses images of Earth taken from outer space to reveal the ancient structures that past civilizations built. Her book on the subject, Archaeology from Space: How the Future Shapes Our Past, is now out in paperback. This segment is guest-hosted by Matt Katz.

The Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt is one of the greatest wonders of the ancient world. It is the largest pyramid ever built and even today, with advanced satellite and thermal imaging and other high tech science, we don't know everything about the pyramid- exactly what's inside or how it was built. To explore the history of The Great Pyramid - also known as the Pyramid of Khufu, after the Pharaoh who commissioned it as his tomb - Rajan Datar is joined by Salima Ikram, Distinguished University Professor and Egyptology Unit Head at the American University in Cairo, space archaeologist Sarah Parcak, a National Geographic fellow and Professor at Birmingham University Alabama in the USA, and Professor Joyce Tyldesley, an archaeologist and Egyptologist from the University of Manchester in the UK. Photo: The Pyramids at Giza (Getty Images)

Encore episode. Sarah Parcak explains how she uses satellite imagery and data to solve one of the biggest challenges in archaeology: where to start digging. Her book is called 'Archaeology From Space: How The Future Shapes Our Past'.

Our history as human beings is buried far beneath the ground, and it's going to take more than picks and shovels to unearth it. That's why modern archaeologists have been enlisting the help of technology like satellites, deep learning and AI. With all these tools at hand, a more complete story about our ancestors begins to emerge. On this episode of Trailblazers, you'll hear from archaeology experts, including Sarah Parcak and Damian Evans, pioneers using satellites and laser scanning in archaeology, and Iris Kramer, founder of ArchEO, a startup using machine learning to process archaeological data. For more on the podcast go to delltechnologies.com/trailblazers 

Brian Cox and Robin Ince are joined by comedian and writer Sara Pascoe, biological anthropologist Alice Roberts and space archaeologist Sarah Parcak. They consider how archaeology today looks far more Star Wars than Indiana Jones, as an archaeologist's list of kit can now include satellites and lasers. They discover how searching for clues from space has led to the discovery of several ancient lost Egyptian cities and how the study of ancient DNA and artefacts reveals our similarities, not differences, with our ancient forebears. Producer: Alexandra Feachem

La fascinación por el antiguo Egipto se remonta a hace siglos. Las pirámides de los faraones y la esfinge de Guiza son monumentos fabulosos representativos de su gloria pasada, pero, según la científica Sarah Parcak, lo ya descubierto es solo una pequeñísima parte de lo que en realidad existe. Este especial llevará de viaje a los espectadores para descubrir la historia del antiguo Egipto. Mediante el uso de tecnología satélite de vanguardia e imágenes tanto de alta resolución como infrarrojas, la Dra. Parcak y su equipo podrán ver debajo de la arena, e intentarán utilizar esta nueva información para crear el mapa del antiguo Egipto más completo de la Historia. Por primera vez, gracias a un asombroso trabajo de CGI basado en datos, recorrer el antiguo Egipto se convertirá en una aventura cinematográfica que podría reconfigurar nuestra visión de aquella civilización.

Hosted by Robin Ince and Dr Helen Czerski this episode of the Science Shambles podcast is an audio recording of our weekly Sunday Science Q and A show that goes out at 3pm BST on our YouTube channel. On this episode Robin and Helen are joined by Prof Chris Lintott and Prof Sarah Parcak to talk aliens, space archaeology and Apollo 13 inspired music from JB Potts. This episode was originally broadcast as part of The Stay at Home Festival. Watch them on our YouTube channel at youtube.com/cosmicshambles and get bonus content and extended conversations with guests by subscribing at patreon.com/cosmicshambles

Sarah Parcak explains how she uses satellite imagery and data to solve one of the biggest challenges in archaeology: where to start digging. Her book is called 'Archaeology From Space: How The Future Shapes Our Past'. Follow host Maddie Sofia on Twitter @maddie_sofia. Email the show at shortwave@npr.org.

National Geographic Explorer and TED Prize-winner Dr. Sarah Parcak welcomes you to the exciting new world of space archaeology, a growing field that is sparking extraordinary discoveries from ancient civilizations across the globe.In Archaeology from Space, Sarah Parcak shows the evolution, major discoveries, and future potential of the young field of satellite archaeology. From surprise advancements after the declassification of spy photography, to a new map of the mythical Egyptian city of Tanis, she shares her field’s biggest discoveries, revealing why space archaeology is not only exciting, but urgently essential to the preservation of the world’s ancient treasures.Parcak has worked in twelve countries and four continents, using multispectral and high-resolution satellite imagery to identify thousands of previously unknown settlements, roads, fortresses, palaces, tombs, and even potential pyramids. From there, her stories take us back in time and across borders, into the day-to-day lives of ancient humans whose traits and genes we share. And she shows us that if we heed the lessons of the past, we can shape a vibrant future.Sarah Parcak is a Professor of Anthropology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, CEO of Globalxplorer, and Director of the Joint Mission to Lisht (Egypt). Her remote sensing work has been the focus of three BBC specials covering Egypt, ancient Rome, and the Vikings. She is a Fellow in the Society of Antiquaries, a 2014 TED Senior Fellow, the winner of the 2016 TED Prize, and a National Geographic Fellow.www.globalxplorer.org

Author Paul Goldberger examines thow baseball parks shapes American identity. Ryan Swanson of the University of New Mexico reveals that Teddy Roosevelt had no love for baseball. Scott Nelson of the University of Georgia explains the backstory of legendary American worker, John Henry. Sarah Parcak of the University of Alabama and GlobalXplorer on how archaeologists use satellites.

Sarah Parcak takes us on an archaeological dig via satellite in Archaeology from Space--

Author Paul Goldberger examines thow baseball parks shapes American identity. Ryan Swanson of the University of New Mexico reveals that Teddy Roosevelt had no love for baseball. Scott Nelson of the University of Georgia explains the backstory of legendary American worker, John Henry. Sarah Parcak of the University of Alabama and GlobalXplorer on how archaeologists use satellites.

Author Paul Goldberger examines thow baseball parks shapes American identity. Ryan Swanson of the University of New Mexico reveals that Teddy Roosevelt had no love for baseball. Scott Nelson of the University of Georgia explains the backstory of legendary American worker, John Henry. Sarah Parcak of the University of Alabama and GlobalXplorer on how archaeologists use satellites.

Dr. Sarah Parcak is an archaeologist, anthropologist, Egyptologist, and remote sensing expert who has used satellite imaging to identify potential archaeological sites in Egypt, Rome, and elsewhere. She’s written the first textbook in the field of satellite archaeology, called Satellite Remote Sensing for Archaeology. She holds a Ph.D. from Cambridge University in Egyptian Archaeology and is currently at the Univ. of Alabama, Birmingham. Sarah told me how she became fascinated by Egyptology at an early age. And, yes, she was influenced by Indiana Jones. In college, inspired by her father’s aerial photogrammetry work, she took a remote sensing class, and that gave her the idea years later, to use NASA satellite photos to identify prospective archaeological sites. These satellite photos can also reveal signs of looting. Sarah described how climate change and poor funding is adversely affecting the science of archaeology.

Dr. Sarah Parcak, a space archaeologist at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and the 2016 winner of the TED Prize. She has a new book out called “Archaeology from Space: How the Future Shapes Our Past,” which highlights how she and her colleagues use satellite technology to deepen our understanding of ancient history. On this week's episode, we discuss ancient civilizations, Confederate monuments, and how she has helped carve out a whole new field of exploration. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Mike Love & Sarah Parcak. Beach Boys founding member Mike Love discusses his new album, “12 Sides of Summer” and Sarah Parcak  talks about her fascinating book, “Archaeology From Space”.          

Interview w/ Dr. Sarah Parcak, Stimulating Seeing, Parenting Brain, LOCKR, Changing Brains, Egg Vibrations, An Apple A Day, Hot Headed Haggling, Shrinking Birds, And Much More... The post 24 July, 2019 – Episode 731 – Archaeology From Space appeared first on This Week in Science - The Kickass Science Podcast.

Sarah Parcak talks to Dan about how advances in technology have enabled us to discover far more historical sites than we believed ever existed. She talks about drones and satellites and how they can read topography and vegetation to give us all new pictures of the world beneath our feet, and discusses her current work in Egypt. For ad free versions of our entire podcast archive and hundreds of hours of history documentaries, interviews and films, signup to History Hit TV. Use code 'pod3' at checkout. Producer: Peter Curry See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Sarah Parcak talks to Dan about how advances in technology have enabled us to discover far more historical sites than we believed ever existed. She talks about drones and satellites and how they can read topography and vegetation to give us all new pictures of the world beneath our feet, and discusses her current work in Egypt. For ad free versions of our entire podcast archive and hundreds of hours of history documentaries, interviews and films, signup to History Hit TV. Use code 'pod3' at checkout. Producer: Peter Curry See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

As the wheel of fortune spins, Jess gives us the blow by blow of this week’s celebrity endorsement - spoiler alert...it wasn’t entirely luck! When someone with 10 million followers on Instagram shares a pic of herself reading your book—things happen. And they happened for Jess. But there's a little secret history there. Sure, lightning struck, the stars aligned and everything fell together. But if Jess hadn't done the groundwork, it probably never would have happened.#AmReadingJess: Archaeology From Space: How the Future Shapes Our Past by Sarah Parcak, @indyfromspace www.sarahparcak.com (http://www.sarahparcak.com/)KJ: City of Girls, Elizabeth Glibert#FaveIndieBookstoreThe Vermont Bookstore in MIddlebury Vermont (https://www.vermontbookshop.com/) This is a public episode. Get access to private episodes at amwriting.substack.com/subscribe

Streamed live on 11 July 2019. From Egyptology to satellites in space, from archaeological sites in Peru to remote sensing, we found an abundance of fascinating and exciting topics of discussion with our guest, archaeologist Sarah Parcak, author of Archaeology from Space: How the Future Shapes Our Past. While she writes about projects that she […]

In her new book “Archaeology from Space: How the Future Shapes Our Past” National Geographic Explorer and TED Prize-winner Dr. Sarah Parcak shows the evolution, major discoveries and future potential of the new field of satellite archaeology. From surprise advancements after the declassification of spy photography, to a new map of the mythical Egyptian city of Tanis, she shares her field’s biggest discoveries, revealing why space archaeology is not only exciting, but urgently essential to the preservation of the world’s ancient treasures. Join us for a wide-ranging discussion with Dr. Parcak on the achievements and possibilities of satellite archaeology in this installment of “Leonard Lopate at Large” on WBAI.

Sarah Parcak uses modern technology to discover ancient sites. you can help too! More at www.abeautiful.world

We're joined today by special guest Sarah Parcak, a space archaeologist who has directed archaeological expeditions around the planet. She's chats with us about the role of technology in modern day archaeology, her GlobalXplorer project, and what it smells like in a thousands-year-old tomb. Plus, we share some spoiler-free Captain Marvel impressions!

Today we present the third and final installment of my interview with Sarah Parcak, a prominent founding figuring the emerging field of astroarchaeology. Most of today's installment concerns a crowd-enabled detection project Sarah created with proceeds from the TED Prize. It's called GlobalXplorer. Partly inspired by Galaxy Zoo, it let armies of “citizen scientists” scan twelve million quadrants of Peruvian satellite imagery for hints of archaeological remains. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Today we're presenting the second installment of my interview with Sarah Parcak, a prominent founding figuring the emerging field of astroarchaeology. Sarah's team may just have pinpointed a long-lost (and eagerly-sought) pharaonic capital. Satellite data helped them establish the Nile's approximate course during the capital's heyday—as well as the locations of settlement-friendly highlands.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This week my guest is Sarah Parcak, a co-founder of the emerging field of astroarchaeology, which enlists satellite imagery to identify ancient, undiscovered sites on our home planet. Sarah's work in this field won her the 2016 TED prize—which came with a million-dollar check to advance her work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

What lies beyond the reach of the naked eye, and how do these hidden forces shape our lives? This hour, TED speakers reveal forgotten cities, underwater canyons, tiny parasites, and a boiling river. In a special updated interview, space archaeologist Sarah Parcak explains how a global team of citizen scientists has helped her discover thousands of ancient hidden sites. Other guests from the original 2016 episode include computer scientist Abe Davis, ocean explorer Robert Ballard, science writer Ed Yong, and geoscientist Andrés Ruzo.

Jani Radebaugh of Brigham Young Univ. talks about Dragonfly and its mission to Saturn's moon, Titan. Brian Willoughby of Brigham Young Univ. on talking to your kids about pornography. Sarah Parcak of Univ. of Alabama at Birmingham explains archaeology in space. Marc Perrusquia, journalist at The Commercial Appeal, describes black photographer Ernest Withers' double life as an FBI informant during the Civil Rights Movement.

Tanya Golash-Boza of Univ of California Merced looks at the newest question on the US Census. Sarah Parcak of GlobalXplorer wants everyone to become a space archaeologist. Author Ken Bugul on her book "Le Baobab Fou" and African migration. BYU's Shawn Clark extols the virtues of bugs!

Dr. Sarah Parcak explains how she uses satellite images to locate archeological sites, and how it's her job to be a detective, piecing together clues to uncover the past. She also talks about GlobalXplorer, a non-profit that lets everyone be a space archeologist.

Sarah Parcak uses satellites orbiting hundreds of miles above Earth to uncover hidden ancient treasures buried beneath our feet. There's a lot to discover; in the Egyptian Delta alone, Parcak estimates we've excavated less than a thousandth of one percent of what's out there. Now, with the 2016 TED Prize and an infectious enthusiasm for archaeology, she's developed an online platform called GlobalXplorer that enables anyone with an internet connection to discover unknown sites and protect what remains of our shared human inheritance. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Sarah Parcak is a pioneer in the emerging field of space archaeology. In 2016 she won the TED Prize to launch a “citizen science” platform, which is finding lost sites and fighting archaeological looting throughout the world.    

The Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt is one of the greatest wonders of the ancient World. It is the largest pyramid ever built and even today, with advanced satellite and thermal imaging and other high tech science, we don't know everything about the pyramid- exactly what's inside or how it was built. To explore the history of The Great Pyramid - also known as the Pyramid of Khufu, after the Pharaoh who commissioned it as his tomb, Rajan Datar is joined by Professor Salima Ikram, Distinguished University Professor and Egyptology Unit Head at the American University in Cairo, space archaeologist Dr Sarah Parcak, a National Geographic fellow and associate Professor at Birmingham University Alabama in the USA and Dr Joyce Tyldesley, an archaeologist and Egyptologist from the University of Manchester in the UK. Photo: The Pyramids at Giza. (Getty Images)

Nature Middle East interviews renowned space archaeologist Sarah Parcak.

What lies beyond the reach of the naked eye, and how do these hidden forces shape our lives? This hour, TED speakers reveal forgotten cities, underwater canyons, tiny parasites, and a boiling river. TED speakers include computer scientist Abe Davis, ocean explorer Robert Ballard, science writer Ed Yong, space archaeologist Sarah Parcak, and geoscientist Andrés Ruzo. (Original broadcast date: March 18, 2016)

Sarah Parcak uses satellites orbiting hundreds of miles above Earth to uncover hidden ancient treasures buried beneath our feet. There's a lot to discover; in the Egyptian Delta alone, Parcak estimates we've excavated less than a thousandth of one percent of what's out there. Now, with the 2016 TED Prize and an infectious enthusiasm for archaeology, she's developed an online platform called GlobalXplorer that enables anyone with an internet connection to discover unknown sites and protect what remains of our shared human inheritance.

Sarah Parcak usa satélites em órbita a centenas de quilômetros sobre a Terra para descobrir antigos tesouros escondidos, enterrados sob nossos pés. Há muito a ser descoberto; apenas no delta egípcio, Parcak calcula que escavamos menos de 0,001% do que existe por lá. Agora, com o Prêmio TED 2016 e seu entusiasmo contagioso pela arqueologia, ela desenvolveu uma plataforma on-line, chamada GlobalXplorer, que permite a qualquer pessoa com acesso à internet descobrir sítios desconhecidos e proteger o que resta da nossa herança humana compartilhada.

Sarah Parcak utilise la vision de satellites qui orbitent à des milliers de kilomètres au-dessus de la Terre pour découvrir les trésors anciens ensevelis. Il reste tant de merveilles à découvrir ! Sarah estime que nous n'avons mis à jour qu'à peine 1% des vestiges de la région du delta du Nil. Forte du Prix TED 2016 et de son enthousiasme communicatif pour l'archéologie, Sarah a développé une plateforme collaborative qui permet à toute personne munie d'une connexion internet de contribuer à la découverte de sites encore inconnus et à la protection des vestiges de notre patrimoine commun.

사라 파칵은 우리 발 밑에 묻힌 채 숨겨져 있는 고대 유물을 발견하기 위해 지상 수백 만 마일의 궤도를 도는 인공위성을 사용합니다. 이집트 델타 지역만 놓고도 발견해야 할 것은 너무도 많지만, 파칵은 현재 그 중 천 분의 일도 발굴하지 못했다고 예측합니다. 2016년 TED 수상자이며 고고학에 대한 열정을 전파하는 그녀는 글로벌 익스플로러(GlobalXplorer)라는 온라인 플랫폼을 개발하여, 누구나 인터넷에 접속하기만 하면 알려지지 않은 지역을 발견하고 인류가 남긴 유산을 보호할 수 있도록 했습니다.

Sarah Parcak usa satélites que orbitan cientos de kilómetros sobre la Tierra para descubrir tesoros antiguos ocultos enterrados bajo nuestros pies. Hay mucho por descubrir; solo en el delta egipcio, Parcak calcula que hemos excavado menos de una milésima parte del uno por ciento de lo que hay allí. Ahora, con el Premio TED 2016 y un entusiasmo contagioso por la arqueología, ha desarrollado una plataforma en línea llamada GlobalXplorer que permite a cualquier persona con conexión a Internet descubrir sitios desconocidos y proteger lo que queda de nuestra herencia humana compartida.

Weltweit liegen hunderttausende verlorener alter Stätten vergraben unsichtbar unter der Erde versteckt. Die Luftbildarchäologin Sarah Parcak ist entschlossen, diese zu finden, bevor sie geplündert werden. Mit Hilfe des TED-Prize 2016 erstellt Parcak ein Online-Instrument names GlobalXplorer, das ein Heer an freiwilligen Helfern ausbilden wird, das versteckte Welterbe zu finden und zu schützen. In diesem Vortrag bietet sie eine Vorschau auf das erste Land, das untersucht wird: Peru – die Heimat des Machu Picchu, der Nazca-Linien und anderer archäologischer Wunder, die auf ihre Entdeckung warten.

No mundo, milhares de antigos sítios arqueológicos continuam enterrados e escondidos. A arqueóloga espacial Sarah Parcak está determinada a encontrá-los antes que saqueadores o façam. Com o Prêmio TED 2016, Parcak está construindo uma ferramenta on-line de ciência-cidadã, chamada GlobalXplorer, que vai treinar um exército de exploradores voluntários para encontrar e proteger esse legado escondido do mundo. Nesta palestra, ela oferece uma prévia do primeiro lugar onde vão procurar: o Peru - o lar de Machu Picchu, das Linhas Nazca e de outras maravilhas arqueológicas esperando para serem descobertas.

Around the world, hundreds of thousands of lost ancient sites lie buried and hidden from view. Satellite archaeologist Sarah Parcak is determined to find them before looters do. With the 2016 TED Prize, Parcak is building an online citizen-science tool called GlobalXplorer that will train an army of volunteer explorers to find and protect the world's hidden heritage. In this talk, she offers a preview of the first place they'll look: Peru -- the home of Machu Picchu, the Nazca lines and other archaeological wonders waiting to be discovered.

세계 곳곳에는 수백, 수천 곳의 오래된 역사적 현장들이 속속들이 숨어 있습니다. 고고학자 사라 파칵은 인공위성을 이용해 그 어떤 도굴꾼보다 먼저 그곳들을 찾아내려 합니다. 2016년의 TED Prize와 함께 그녀는 대중의 힘을 이용해 숨겨진 문화유산들을 찾고, 보호하려 합니다. 이 강연에서 그녀는 마추픽추와 불가사의의 나즈카 라인은 물론, 다양한 고고학적 경이를 지니고 있는 첫 탐험장소, 페루를 소개합니다.

En todo el mundo cientos de miles de sitios antiguos perdidos están enterrados y ocultos. La arqueóloga Sarah Parcak está decidida a encontrarlos antes de que lo hagan los saqueadores. Con el Premio TED 2016, Parcak construye una herramienta de ciencia ciudadana en línea llamada GlobalXplorer que permitirá formar un ejército de voluntarios exploradores para encontrar y proteger el patrimonio oculto del mundo. En esta charla ella ofrece una vista previa del primer lugar que analizarán: Perú, el hogar de Machupicchu, las líneas de Nazca y otras maravillas arqueológicas que esperan ser descubiertas.

Des centaines de milliers de sites anciens perdus dans le monde demeurent enfouis et cachés. Sarah Parcak, archéologue spatiale, est déterminée à les trouver avant les pilleurs. Grâce au TED Prize obtenu en 2016, Parcak est en train de construire un outil de science participative appelé GlobalXplorer pour former une armée d'explorateurs bénévoles à trouver et à protéger ce patrimoine mondial caché. Dans cette présentation, elle nous donne un aperçu du lieu sur lequel ils vont se pencher en premier : le Pérou -- berceau du Machu Picchu, des géoglyphes de Nazca et d'autres merveilles à découvrir.

Welcome to episode 29 of Birmingham Shines. I’m your host and producer Sheree Martin  and this week’s show is about TEDxBirmingham: what it is, why it matters, who it's for and more. We also talk about what makes Birmingham Shine and what makes a person shine. My guest is Matthew Hamilton, someone I’ve been trying to have on the show since last summer and we finally had a chance to sit down just before the beginning of the year to talk about TEDxBirmingham. I’m a huge fan of TED talks and TEDx talks and use them to learn, find inspiration and spark my own innovation and creativity. TEDxBirmingham 4th edition is set for March 12 and the leadership team just announced this year’s speakers a few weeks ago. Matthew and I talk about the importance of TEDx events in the life of a community and the goals of TEDxBirmingham in particular. I ask Matthew to highlight a few of his favorite speakers from past TEDxBirmingham events and you can find videos of those talks on the Birmingham Shines blog. He also gives us a preview of this year’s speaker line-up. You can apply for tickets right now through tedxbirmingham.org and Matthew explains the selection process in our conversation around the 43 minute mark. The deadline to submit your application is January 31, so only a few days left to apply for tickets. But you can also participate via the free livestream if you can’t attend in person. Why does TEDx matter? Matthew says it creates a forum in a community where a diverse group of people can come together and share ideas. The TEDx event can be a spark or catalyst for innovation. Tt’s the sharing of ideas and bringing people together to connect that is the service TEDx events provide to a community. The focus or mission of TED is to bring to light Ideas Worth Spreading. I like to think that my hero Benjamin Franklin would have been one of the forces to bring a TED-type of event to life. His Junto is probably the closest thing to a TED-type of event that existed in the colonies in the first half of the 18th century. Matthew is a co-organizer with Dr. Sarah Parcak of UAB, who’s a TED Fellow. In curating the speakers for TEDxBirmingham events they try to focus on ideas that matter coming OUT of Birmingham, more than ideas about Birmingham. “We want to share ideas that are originating in this city, out to the world,” Hamilton said. One of the criteria used by the TEDxBirmingham organizers for speaker selections is that the idea is one that would be relevant to someone regardless of geography. The idea is not specific to Birmingham or relevant only to people in our city or region. Matthew used the example of Dr. Pat Hymel’s TEDxBirmingham talk from 2013, which focused on how we grow and learn from our mistakes. This year’s TEDxBirmingham has the theme of Pure Imagination. In curating speakers for this theme, Hamilton says the idea was to find speakers who consider the possibilities for the future with an emphasis on WHEN, not if. Once we finish talking about TEDxBirmingham, past and present. Matthew shares some of his thoughts on how and why Birmingham Shines: It really comes down to the people. We talk about two books Matthew recommends: Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman How Will You Measure Your Life by Clay Christiansen   What makes someone shine personally? A similar theme echoed by other guests: A willingness to step out and do the thing you’re passionate about.

이 짧은 강연에서, 테드 연구원인 사라 파캑은 과거의 사라진 문명을 찾는데 인공위성에서 찍은 사진을 이용하는 위성 고고학(Space Archeology)을 소개합니다.

In this short talk, TED Fellow Sarah Parcak introduces the field of "space archaeology" -- using satellite images to search for clues to the lost sites of past civilizations.

En esta breve charla, Sarah Parcak presenta el campo de la “arqueología espacial” utilizando imágenes satelitales para buscar indicios de los yacimientos perdidos de civilizaciones pasadas.

In diesem kurzen Vortrag stellt TED Fellow Sarah Parcak das Forschungsfeld der "Archäologie aus dem All" vor, das Satellitenbilder für die Suche nach Hinweisen auf verlorene Städte vergangener Zivilisationen nutzt.

Ce bref discours de Sarah Parcak, TED Fellow, présente le domaine de l'archéologie aérienne : l'utilisation d'images satellite dans la recherche de sites perdus des civilisations antérieures.

Nesta pequena palestra, a TED Fellow Sarah Parcak introduz o campo de 'arqueologia a partir do espaço' - usando imagens de satélite para procurar pistas de cidades perdidas de antigas civilizações.

Это короткое выступление стипендиата программы TED Fellows Сары Паркак, которая представляет «космическую археологию» — использование снимков со спутников для поисков следов затерянных цивилизаций.

この短いスピーチの中で、TEDフェローのサラ・パーカックは「宇宙的考古学」、過去の文明で失われた都市の糸口を探すために、衛星画像を用いた例を紹介します。

Tim Pine of the Environment Health and Safety office at UCB and Tyler Grinberg, UCB student and creek restoration coordinator, discuss efforts to restore Strawberry Creek on the UC property. The creek restoration is a volunteer effort.TranscriptSpeaker 1: [inaudible].Speaker 2: Welcome to spectrum the science [00:00:30] and technology show on k a l x Berkeley, a biweekly 30 minute program with a local events calendar, news and interviews featuring bay area scientists and technologists. My name is Brad Swift. Today's interview is with Tim Pine and Tyler Grinberg. They join us to talk about the efforts to restore strawberry creek at UC Berkeley. Tim Pine is a staff member of the environment health [00:01:00] and safety office at UC Berkeley. Tyler Grinberg is a UC Berkeley student and creek restoration coordinator and teacher of a Strawberry Creek decal class. The creek restoration is predominantly a volunteer effort by students, community members, staff and faculty. This interview is prerecorded and edited. First of all, Speaker 3: welcome to US spectrum. Thanks for coming and go ahead, introduce yourselves. [00:01:30] Thanks for it for having me here. My name is Tim Pine. I am a, uh, officially a staff member here at cow and uh, I'm in the office of Environment, health and safety. I like to tell people that we put the e and e, h n s and that's the environmental protection group of which I am one of five for the university. And within that, that group, I'm officially the surface water quality coordinator for the campus. So simplification to be, I'm the creek guy. Speaker 4: Uh, I'm Tyler Grinberg. [00:02:00] I'm a fourth year here at Cau, although I'm not quite graduating yet to next semester I'm studying environmental education and ecology. I'm also an education minor, so I'm getting my teaching credential at the same time as my bachelor's and first Aubrey Creek. I'm a restoration coordinator and a decal coordinator. So I kind of manage our, our class on the creek and restoration efforts. Great. And Tyler, can you explain Strawberry Creek to us? So for me, strawberry creeks [00:02:30] all around us on campus, if we're on Sproul plaza, it's in some pipes that are leading to the creek. Anything we do on the campus eventually leads the Strawberry Creek. So I think the creek is all around us. But where you see the creek is up in Strawberry Canyon, uh, if you go hiking up in the fire trail, you hear it running beneath you. If you're of the botanical garden, uh, you can see it and hear it as well.Speaker 4: And then on campus specifically, we see it in several locations, you know, by the dialect scientists building in some ecological study areas on campus. And then eventually [00:03:00] if you want to go be really adventurous off campus, you can go down to university and Bonar Street and see Starboard Creek Park and there's some fun things to observe down there. And then if you really want to be adventurous, you'll go all the way down towards the bay at the end of university avenue and you see come out of a very large pipe in somewhat of an estuary. And it's a pretty big watershed too, right? That feeds it all. Not just the campus but up in the hills and exactly. I mean that's why I like to say it's all around us because anything we do [00:03:30] along campus will eventually find its way to somewhere in strawberry creek. So I only can think of it just as the water you see flowing, but also all the interactions are happening around the creek as well Speaker 3: in terms of describing strawberry creek and the campus. You know, the very reason that UC Berkeley is here is because when the founding fathers of this university were looking around for a likely spot, having a water supply was a very, very important, but maybe the most important a requirement [00:04:00] for the location by the late sixties and early seventies. Water quality. It was just a bismal. I mean there was, you know, not just, um, you know, pollution coming off streets, things like that. But there were still operational discharges, there were still these legacy sewer pipes, it, and no one really knew where they went after they left the basement, you know, of dough library that were still actually, um, coming out into the creek. And it was about that time that some very critical pieces of legislation passed federally. And [00:04:30] then we're in in turn implemented at the state level. Speaker 3: And that was the clean water act. You know, it was very, very big deal in terms of forcing, um, not just Berkeley, but all urban areas to start looking at, you know, what have we done to these watercourses? They were, um, a series of pretty dramatic discharges to the creek where it started to get the notice of local agencies, you know, the regional water quality control board, which was, you know, relatively new at that time. At the same time. [00:05:00] That was about when we had that very vibrant, you know, kind of the first modern ecology movement. And, uh, the camps community said, look, we can't let this continue. So it was a combination of regulation and also citizens desire to start doing something about this creek, you know, which definitely in need of some work. Uh, you know, I like to give a lot of credit to a fellow by the name of Bob Charbonneau, who actually still works for the UC. He works in the office of the president and he, uh, came to cau as a Grad student in the late eighties. [00:05:30] He decided to make it part of his graduate studies to put together this management plan. So, uh, the Strawberry Creek Management Plan new, which was officially adopted in 1987 is still our guiding document for my department's management and restoration of the creek. And it's really a wonderful document. It's actually been, um, copied or used as a template for other watersheds across the United States and I suspect in other countries. That's been Speaker 4: a really fabulous document to keep looking [00:06:00] back at Speaker 5: [inaudible]. You're listening to spectrum on KALX Berkeley. We're talking with Tim pine and Tyler Greenberg, but the strawberry creek restoration. Speaker 4: What's entailed with your restoration plan, so to speak? Well, what I really do is focus on the area around the creek [00:06:30] or their parents zone and look to restore a natural biodiversity to the area that's been lost through urbanization and invasive plant introduction. And really my, my mission, my plan is education. And I know Tim hears this a lot, but I, I feel that we can do all we want with limited resources. We have to make alterations, but unless we inform future generations of how important the creek is and how we can manage it, it's just good to go back in Arizona. Revert to this, [00:07:00] uh, never the terrible state that it has been in for the past 50, 60, a hundred years. And so unless you really take this current students, make them interested in the creek, take faculty a different colleges and make them invested in the creek or not really gonna see any major differences. Speaker 4: Um, but what I'm doing actually hands on right now is taking students out, uh, to be creaking community members as well and physically removing invasive plants and introducing native ones to the nursery program we have on campus serious story about diversity [00:07:30] of plants, which will then introduce more wildlife to the area. And how do you characterize or measure where you are in that process? The goal is what and where do you think you are in that process? Uh, as far as water quality is concerned, I think that we're getting towards the end of where we want to be. From my point of view, there's still a few things I'm concerned about and that's a lot of discharges to the creek. Um, especially of political water [00:08:00] that has chlorine in it, which can imagine from an ecological standpoint kind of kills a lower trophic level of organisms that we're actually trying to preserve in the water. Speaker 4: So funny thing, clean water going into the creek is actually detrimental to the entire system. So even this morning working on the creek, I saw a lot of discharges heading into the water. And then as far as invasive plants is concerned, I feel like we're really making headway. But I'd really like to get a lot of different people on campus, on board with what we're doing. And I feel like we only [00:08:30] tapping to a very small segment of the campus community. And so if I had to put a percent on it, I'd say we're at 50, 60% of where I want to be. Um, I really want to take on a lot of the campus. And right now we're confined to three ecological study areas on the campus to do our work and the immense invasive plants are moving or you know, very small ground cover species as opposed to revamping the entire system. Speaker 4: And I know it's not really possible right now, but I feel if we get a lot of people on board we can really do more work than [00:09:00] simply remove ivy. And do you have a, an ongoing relationship with the landscaping group that tries to keep the campus tidy in a sense? You know, and and is responsible for a lot of the flora that's around it? Most definitely. Um, Jim Warner is the head landscape architect for that campus and we're constantly in meetings with him and talking to him about what we're doing, what he um, I mean sometimes we just agree on things but it's definitely an active communication going on between us and we've had very good feedback on what [00:09:30] we've been doing from him and he's been very helpful in our restoration efforts. Of course, there are some areas on campus that we aren't doing our work because they are landscaped. Speaker 4: We are on a UC campus, but we understand that. And so we're just working wherever he can. And he's been very helpful. And I would add that the a campus grounds maintenance group, um, which is part of, of our physical planet campus services there have been really essential and it just a fabulous partner for what we've been doing. You know, they manage the grounds manager, they're in close, who's [00:10:00] very active in the sustainability community here on campus. He, uh, managed to scrounge up our very first lot of tools way back 10 years ago to kind of get us started, provided us with a gloves hand of his own stock to give to the volunteers. They coordinated with us just about every single uh, event we have. They bring us on green waste bin so that all of the vegetation that we remove goes into a composting system. Speaker 4: So I, I would consider the grounds group here to be a very essential partner of ours. And [00:10:30] it's really been exciting to, and I think for them to, they've told me that they've been very excited to see the kind of the transformation that's occurred in some of these areas. What sort of data are you trying to gather, uh, from the creek and analyze this? That's a great question. Um, you know, I think as we're starting to do restoration, we're starting to go more into actually applying a science to these areas and really doing some research. Um, and before a restoration began, there wasn't that [00:11:00] much we can do in these areas. I mean, they're called ecological study areas for a reason and I think more and more people are using them now. So Stephanie Carlson, who's a fish biologist and he called us on campus, is now doing electro fishing in the creek itself to see what types of fish are out there. Speaker 4: And she's found, uh, at least three variety of fish and some crawdads. Um, she studying flows as well, the seasonal fluxes and extreme velocity and habitat complexity. So she's doing some work there. I'm doing more work on [00:11:30] the flora around the creek for a current project to see, uh, which varieties of trees are growing next to the water. That's just a, you know, in addition to kind of the normal metrics we take, we do take regular water quality samples for things like coliform bacteria. We actually have three web enabled hydro stations on the campus, on the creeks, the south, the north fork and the Speaker 3: main stem down there by Oxford. That measure consists, you know, constantly things like temperature, [00:12:00] um, flow turbidity and conductivity. That's been incredibly helpful in seeing when there's been, um, you know, illegal discharges to the creek as well as, uh, a valuable engineering tool to see how the creek behaves during storms. So yeah, there's actually a lot of data that's coming out now and I know as Tyler mentioned, that as we kind of improve access and safety in these areas where you need a lot more data coming back. A lot of students do their senior projects from the college of natural [00:12:30] resources and even integrated biology, um, using the creek as kind of the basis for their, their, their research project. It's been fabulous to see the data coming out of these. Quite a compendium where we're developing now. Speaker 5: [inaudible] you're listening to spectrum on KALX Berkeley [00:13:00] talking with Tim Klein and Tyler Greenberg, but the strawberry creek restoration [inaudible]. Speaker 4: So of the invasive species that you're dealing with, is there a broad [00:13:30] spectrum of plants and bugs and things? What would they be? Invasive plants usually don't find a broad spectrum, which is the problem. You have a monoculture, generally one species of plant, which doesn't function well in a natural ecosystem where you want a wide diversity and species written it richness of plants and so on campus. I feel our two biggest problems for groundcover species are Ivey of both English and Algerian of varieties as well as Vinca, which is Perry Winkle. [00:14:00] Um, but I feel like those are two main ground cover plants. And then up in the canyon there's a lot of blackberry, but those are the plants who are primarily concerned with. They're moving on campus and they're actually fairly easy to remove. And once we explained to our students why we want to move these plants in, we really give them the reasons behind why we do it. They're actually very, um, encouraged to get out of be with the plants. I've seen my students not during class actually out there with their friends. We're moving plants on their own. Do you get to have any input [00:14:30] at all into the planning of the campus related to creek side changes or you know, building that might be happening are pending? Yeah, they do. They consult. That's a, a very, a fairly recent thing where Speaker 3: my group does see a proposed projects at the early stages. If we do comment on the, not the, um, the conceptual plan, but also we get copies of the design plans as they're going through their stage to final design. And [00:15:00] those plans are reviewed by each member of my team for various impacts to water quality. A very good case in point, we'd be say a building, well there's a proposed replacement for Eshelman coming up and we've been in very, very early abroad in on the design part to deal with any runoff from the rooftop, from the landscaped area and this is going to be a project and when it finally is done, that's going to [00:15:30] capture an infiltrate as much storm water run off as possible. And depending on what time of year it could be as high as a hundred percent capture and re infiltration and groundwater. Speaker 3: Those considerations were never even anywhere on the radar as as little as 10 years ago. So that's just a perfect example of, you know how having the ability to comment on these days. Seeing projects early on has really helped out Morgan stadium to Morgan stadiums that really another really great example is [00:16:00] now I'm that water collecting in the stadium is going to go through a pretreatment system and an infiltration system to both trap pollutants and to try to put as much of that water back down on the groundwater table as possible. So it's been a really a neat thing to see. Those kinds of, some of those kinds of comments be incorporated into the design. Speaker 4: And you mentioned a nursery as well. It's part of the, the whole process. Describe the nursery activity that you're doing. Yeah, and I really feel it's our third partner restoration [00:16:30] after um, assessing water quality, removing invasive plants, we finally have to reintroduce native plants. We can't just leave these areas bear. And so through a grant with the Green Initiative Fund TJF where students get a few dollars every semester voluntarily into this pool. We got a grant to build a native play nursery on campus and took about a year to build. It was finally done. We had our grand opening last Wednesday, so we had a good ceremony there. But we have one of our nursery coordinators or a restoration coordinator who also does nursery your work. David Pawn, [00:17:00] he's a third year here at cal studying environmental science and he propagates native plants right in the nursery on campus. And then once we grow this plant, students can then do the final step of restoration where they put these plants into the ground and monitor the area. Speaker 4: Where is the nursery, the nurseries in the welding courtyards. So by Jean Nini and Wellman Hall and the college onto our resources. In terms of what volunteers can do, are there things, you know, if somebody wants to be involved [00:17:30] but doesn't want to go dig up Ivy, can they help? Uh, definitely. And we, we understand students have different levels of involvement, you know, of what they actually want to actually want to do. And I think everyone should be getting their hands dirty. That's just my opinion. But we have people work in our nursery. We don't really have our volunteers do other outreach work, although I guess it's something we can think about starting to do. Speaker 3: I, you know, that's a great question because, um, you know, one of the criticisms [00:18:00] that I've been very kind of cognizant of is that we could do more in terms of the outreach part of this thing. You know, given that resources are going to be so critical to our continued, you know, health and functioning as a group. You know, I'll admit that we, we tend to put more time on the ground as Tyler mentioned because I think that's our focus. But we would love it if people who have an interest in marketing and outreach people in publication though. Absolutely. We would welcome any skillset. I'm sure we can apply it to um, [00:18:30] the restoration program and were born very inserted in hearing any ideas that people have. Is there any point that you guys wanted to make? Speaker 4: Do either of you, one of the points I wanted to make, I'm not sure if I made it earlier, is that how important it is for us to take stewardship of our local environment. In my environmental science classes, I've actually learned a bit about how native Americans were stewards of their environments. That's really why California looks the way it does now. All these, what we call the native plants is because native Americans [00:19:00] tend to those plants and create a series of events that allowed those plants to be successful. And so when a student comes here as a freshman, I think that's just as important to learn about how to use telomeres as it is to learn about the native plants we have on campus. I know it sounds really corny, but after they work with us, they look at the creek a different way because when you work on the water, when you work in the right parents zone, something does change in you. You have a sense of ownership of the environment. That's what we need and so I think [00:19:30] as a campus we need to ensure at least after I'm gone and even while I'm here, that all students become stewards of Strawberry Creek and the local watershed. Thank you both for coming today and talking with us. Thank you very much. Speaker 3: Which was my pleasure. I could talk about the creek all day long. Speaker 1: [inaudible] [inaudible] Speaker 6: [00:20:00] to contact or volunteer for the Strawberry Creek Restoration. Visit their website, Strawberry creek.berkeley.edu as always, you can contact spectrum if you want this contact information. Speaker 1: [inaudible]Speaker 6: [00:20:30] a regular feature of spectrum is to mention a few of the science and technology events happening locally over the next few weeks. The June Science at Cau lecture will given at 11:00 AM Speaker 2: on June 18th in the genetics and plant biology building room 100 the June 18th talk will be given by Terry Johnson and is entitled synthetic biology [00:21:00] beating the cell at its own game. Bioengineering lecturer Terry Johnson received the Spring 2011 outstanding instructor award from the Bio Engineering Honor Society. He was also awarded the 2011 outstanding faculty of the Year award and named an eminent engineer by the Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honor Society. Join the center for Biological Diversity and the Ecology Center for a presentation on [00:21:30] the clean air act and how it may be our best hope against climate change. The title of the presentation is the clean air act and global warming, how it works, why we need it and what we can do to support it. This presentation is free. The presentation will be Wednesday, June 22nd 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM at the Ecology Center, which is at 25 30 San Pablo Avenue in Berkeley, Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute [00:22:00] or Ambari is holding an open house on Saturday, June 25th this event is free. Speaker 2: The Ambari open house features science and technology exhibits deep sea videos, research presentations, robotic submarines, children's activities, ocean career information, and much more Ambari staff scientists and engineers will share their excitement about the institutes work. Visitors can view a remotely operated vehicle [00:22:30] and some of their autonomous underwater vehicles and Baris research vessels will also be on view at the dock with related displays. Visitors can also find out about the Monterey Bay aquarium's Seafood Watch program and a new marine environmental organization. The center for Ocean Solutions. The Open House is Saturday, June 25th from noon until 5:00 PM the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute is located at [00:23:00] 7,700 sand Holt road, moss landing, California. Their website is ambari.org the link to the open house is found under news briefs. Now some stories in the news. The journal Science has given its May science prize for online resources and education or spore award to the periodic table of videos. Speaker 2: Science editorial fellow Melissa McCartney says the videos are an entertaining [00:23:30] mix of experiments and anecdotes and are aimed at anyone with a curiosity for chemistry. No prior knowledge on the part of the viewer as needed. The chemistry themed videos are produced by University of Nottingham Professor Martin Poliakoff, journalist Heron Chemist Pete licence, Steve Ladelle and Debbie ks and lab technician Neil Barnes. The periodic table of videos was conceived in 2008 after heron tape Poliakoff as part of another series [00:24:00] of videos called the test tube project. They decided to collaborate on the periodic table of elements and within about five weeks the videos for all 118 elements had been uploaded to youtube. The periodic table of videos continues to grow with videos about chemistry topics beyond the elements such as segments that play off the news. The site now hosts more than 300 videos. The videos can be viewed on youtube search for periodic table of videos. Speaker 2: [00:24:30] They may also be viewed@thewebsiteperiodicvideos.com which is helpful at schools where youtube is blocked. The American Association for the Advancement of Science website reports that an American research team has succeeded in high tech grand survey of ancient Egyptian settlements, tombs and pyramids by analyzing high resolution satellite imagery covering all of Egypt. Researchers have reportedly discovered up to 17 lost pyramids, nearly 3000 ancient [00:25:00] settlements and 1000 tunes. The effort was led by archeologists, Sarah Parcak of the University of Alabama Birmingham Parcak began her study 11 years ago searching for traces of ancient village walls buried under Egypt's fields and desert sands obtaining images from both NASA and quickbird satellites. She combined an analyze data from the visible imagery as well as from the infrared and thermal parts of the light spectrum. [00:25:30] Through trial and error, she discovered that the most informative images were taken during the relatively wet weeks of late winter. During this period, buried mud brick walls absorbed more moisture than usual producing a subtle chemical signature in the overlying soil that showed up in high resolution infrared satellite images to further test. Speaker 2: Some of the most recent satellite finds. Park enlisted the help of a French archeological team already digging at the 3000 year old site [00:26:00] known as Tannis Park Act says they found an almost 100% correlation between what we see on the imagery and what we see on the ground. In the wake of the fines, the Egyptian government reached an agreement to work with Park and others, American researchers to develop a nationwide satellite imagery project to monitor archaeological sites from space and protect them from looting and illegal house construction and other encroachments park says of the agreement. We are going to be teaching [00:26:30] young Egyptians how to look at the satellite data and analyze it so they can keep an eye on the sites. She and her colleagues plan to raise funds privately to support the effort. This item from the UC Berkeley News Center website written by Robert Sanders, a new initiative for citizen scientists and the crowdsourcing of ecosystem observation has been launched named the global amphibian blitz. Speaker 2: Any adventurer, hiker or backyard naturalist where the camera can help scientists survey [00:27:00] and hopefully save the world's amphibians. Thanks to a new social networking site that links citizen scientists with researchers tracking the decline of Amphibians around the globe. The global amphibian blitz is a new partnership between the University of California Berkeley's Amphibia web and six other amphibian groups. The new website is provided by I naturalist.org a bay area social network for naturalists. The website allows amateur naturalists from [00:27:30] around the world to submit their amphibian photographs along with dates and gps locations. The project is curated by a team of scientists who will identify and filter the submissions in search of rare species or out of range occurrences of interest to scientific and conservation communities in an effort to protect the data from commercial collectors and others who would exploit the information. The exact whereabouts are rare and endangered amphibians are obscured to all but the scientific community. [00:28:00] The website can be reached by going to eye naturalist.org/projects and click on the global amphibian blitz. That's I naturalist.org there is also a youtube video explaining the project to find it. Search for a global amphibian blitz Speaker 1: [inaudible].Speaker 6: [00:28:30] The music heard during the show is spineless. Donna David from his album, folk and acoustic, made available through a creative Commons license. 3.0 attribution editing assistance was provided by Judith White, Marcel [inaudible] and Gretchen Sanderson. Speaker 1: [00:29:00] [inaudible]. Speaker 6: Thank you for listening to spectrum. We are happy to hear from our listeners. If you have comments about the show, please send them to us via email. Our email addresses spectrum dot k a l x@yahoo.com join us in two weeks at the same time. Speaker 1: [00:29:30] [inaudible].Speaker 4: The abuse occurred during the show is by Listonic Donna David from his album folk and acoustic made [00:29:00] available by a creative Commons attribution only licensed 3.0 editing assistance was provided by Judith White Marceline and Gretchen Sanders. Thank you for listening to spectrum. If you have any comments about the show, please send them to us via email. Our email address is spectrum dot k a l x@yahoo.com join us in two weeks [00:29:30] at the same time. Speaker 5: [inaudible]. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Tim Pine of the Environment Health and Safety office at UCB and Tyler Grinberg, UCB student and creek restoration coordinator, discuss efforts to restore Strawberry Creek on the UC property. The creek restoration is a volunteer effort.TranscriptSpeaker 1: [inaudible].Speaker 2: Welcome to spectrum the science [00:00:30] and technology show on k a l x Berkeley, a biweekly 30 minute program with a local events calendar, news and interviews featuring bay area scientists and technologists. My name is Brad Swift. Today's interview is with Tim Pine and Tyler Grinberg. They join us to talk about the efforts to restore strawberry creek at UC Berkeley. Tim Pine is a staff member of the environment health [00:01:00] and safety office at UC Berkeley. Tyler Grinberg is a UC Berkeley student and creek restoration coordinator and teacher of a Strawberry Creek decal class. The creek restoration is predominantly a volunteer effort by students, community members, staff and faculty. This interview is prerecorded and edited. First of all, Speaker 3: welcome to US spectrum. Thanks for coming and go ahead, introduce yourselves. [00:01:30] Thanks for it for having me here. My name is Tim Pine. I am a, uh, officially a staff member here at cow and uh, I'm in the office of Environment, health and safety. I like to tell people that we put the e and e, h n s and that's the environmental protection group of which I am one of five for the university. And within that, that group, I'm officially the surface water quality coordinator for the campus. So simplification to be, I'm the creek guy. Speaker 4: Uh, I'm Tyler Grinberg. [00:02:00] I'm a fourth year here at Cau, although I'm not quite graduating yet to next semester I'm studying environmental education and ecology. I'm also an education minor, so I'm getting my teaching credential at the same time as my bachelor's and first Aubrey Creek. I'm a restoration coordinator and a decal coordinator. So I kind of manage our, our class on the creek and restoration efforts. Great. And Tyler, can you explain Strawberry Creek to us? So for me, strawberry creeks [00:02:30] all around us on campus, if we're on Sproul plaza, it's in some pipes that are leading to the creek. Anything we do on the campus eventually leads the Strawberry Creek. So I think the creek is all around us. But where you see the creek is up in Strawberry Canyon, uh, if you go hiking up in the fire trail, you hear it running beneath you. If you're of the botanical garden, uh, you can see it and hear it as well.Speaker 4: And then on campus specifically, we see it in several locations, you know, by the dialect scientists building in some ecological study areas on campus. And then eventually [00:03:00] if you want to go be really adventurous off campus, you can go down to university and Bonar Street and see Starboard Creek Park and there's some fun things to observe down there. And then if you really want to be adventurous, you'll go all the way down towards the bay at the end of university avenue and you see come out of a very large pipe in somewhat of an estuary. And it's a pretty big watershed too, right? That feeds it all. Not just the campus but up in the hills and exactly. I mean that's why I like to say it's all around us because anything we do [00:03:30] along campus will eventually find its way to somewhere in strawberry creek. So I only can think of it just as the water you see flowing, but also all the interactions are happening around the creek as well Speaker 3: in terms of describing strawberry creek and the campus. You know, the very reason that UC Berkeley is here is because when the founding fathers of this university were looking around for a likely spot, having a water supply was a very, very important, but maybe the most important a requirement [00:04:00] for the location by the late sixties and early seventies. Water quality. It was just a bismal. I mean there was, you know, not just, um, you know, pollution coming off streets, things like that. But there were still operational discharges, there were still these legacy sewer pipes, it, and no one really knew where they went after they left the basement, you know, of dough library that were still actually, um, coming out into the creek. And it was about that time that some very critical pieces of legislation passed federally. And [00:04:30] then we're in in turn implemented at the state level. Speaker 3: And that was the clean water act. You know, it was very, very big deal in terms of forcing, um, not just Berkeley, but all urban areas to start looking at, you know, what have we done to these watercourses? They were, um, a series of pretty dramatic discharges to the creek where it started to get the notice of local agencies, you know, the regional water quality control board, which was, you know, relatively new at that time. At the same time. [00:05:00] That was about when we had that very vibrant, you know, kind of the first modern ecology movement. And, uh, the camps community said, look, we can't let this continue. So it was a combination of regulation and also citizens desire to start doing something about this creek, you know, which definitely in need of some work. Uh, you know, I like to give a lot of credit to a fellow by the name of Bob Charbonneau, who actually still works for the UC. He works in the office of the president and he, uh, came to cau as a Grad student in the late eighties. [00:05:30] He decided to make it part of his graduate studies to put together this management plan. So, uh, the Strawberry Creek Management Plan new, which was officially adopted in 1987 is still our guiding document for my department's management and restoration of the creek. And it's really a wonderful document. It's actually been, um, copied or used as a template for other watersheds across the United States and I suspect in other countries. That's been Speaker 4: a really fabulous document to keep looking [00:06:00] back at Speaker 5: [inaudible]. You're listening to spectrum on KALX Berkeley. We're talking with Tim pine and Tyler Greenberg, but the strawberry creek restoration. Speaker 4: What's entailed with your restoration plan, so to speak? Well, what I really do is focus on the area around the creek [00:06:30] or their parents zone and look to restore a natural biodiversity to the area that's been lost through urbanization and invasive plant introduction. And really my, my mission, my plan is education. And I know Tim hears this a lot, but I, I feel that we can do all we want with limited resources. We have to make alterations, but unless we inform future generations of how important the creek is and how we can manage it, it's just good to go back in Arizona. Revert to this, [00:07:00] uh, never the terrible state that it has been in for the past 50, 60, a hundred years. And so unless you really take this current students, make them interested in the creek, take faculty a different colleges and make them invested in the creek or not really gonna see any major differences. Speaker 4: Um, but what I'm doing actually hands on right now is taking students out, uh, to be creaking community members as well and physically removing invasive plants and introducing native ones to the nursery program we have on campus serious story about diversity [00:07:30] of plants, which will then introduce more wildlife to the area. And how do you characterize or measure where you are in that process? The goal is what and where do you think you are in that process? Uh, as far as water quality is concerned, I think that we're getting towards the end of where we want to be. From my point of view, there's still a few things I'm concerned about and that's a lot of discharges to the creek. Um, especially of political water [00:08:00] that has chlorine in it, which can imagine from an ecological standpoint kind of kills a lower trophic level of organisms that we're actually trying to preserve in the water. Speaker 4: So funny thing, clean water going into the creek is actually detrimental to the entire system. So even this morning working on the creek, I saw a lot of discharges heading into the water. And then as far as invasive plants is concerned, I feel like we're really making headway. But I'd really like to get a lot of different people on campus, on board with what we're doing. And I feel like we only [00:08:30] tapping to a very small segment of the campus community. And so if I had to put a percent on it, I'd say we're at 50, 60% of where I want to be. Um, I really want to take on a lot of the campus. And right now we're confined to three ecological study areas on the campus to do our work and the immense invasive plants are moving or you know, very small ground cover species as opposed to revamping the entire system. Speaker 4: And I know it's not really possible right now, but I feel if we get a lot of people on board we can really do more work than [00:09:00] simply remove ivy. And do you have a, an ongoing relationship with the landscaping group that tries to keep the campus tidy in a sense? You know, and and is responsible for a lot of the flora that's around it? Most definitely. Um, Jim Warner is the head landscape architect for that campus and we're constantly in meetings with him and talking to him about what we're doing, what he um, I mean sometimes we just agree on things but it's definitely an active communication going on between us and we've had very good feedback on what [00:09:30] we've been doing from him and he's been very helpful in our restoration efforts. Of course, there are some areas on campus that we aren't doing our work because they are landscaped. Speaker 4: We are on a UC campus, but we understand that. And so we're just working wherever he can. And he's been very helpful. And I would add that the a campus grounds maintenance group, um, which is part of, of our physical planet campus services there have been really essential and it just a fabulous partner for what we've been doing. You know, they manage the grounds manager, they're in close, who's [00:10:00] very active in the sustainability community here on campus. He, uh, managed to scrounge up our very first lot of tools way back 10 years ago to kind of get us started, provided us with a gloves hand of his own stock to give to the volunteers. They coordinated with us just about every single uh, event we have. They bring us on green waste bin so that all of the vegetation that we remove goes into a composting system. Speaker 4: So I, I would consider the grounds group here to be a very essential partner of ours. And [00:10:30] it's really been exciting to, and I think for them to, they've told me that they've been very excited to see the kind of the transformation that's occurred in some of these areas. What sort of data are you trying to gather, uh, from the creek and analyze this? That's a great question. Um, you know, I think as we're starting to do restoration, we're starting to go more into actually applying a science to these areas and really doing some research. Um, and before a restoration began, there wasn't that [00:11:00] much we can do in these areas. I mean, they're called ecological study areas for a reason and I think more and more people are using them now. So Stephanie Carlson, who's a fish biologist and he called us on campus, is now doing electro fishing in the creek itself to see what types of fish are out there. Speaker 4: And she's found, uh, at least three variety of fish and some crawdads. Um, she studying flows as well, the seasonal fluxes and extreme velocity and habitat complexity. So she's doing some work there. I'm doing more work on [00:11:30] the flora around the creek for a current project to see, uh, which varieties of trees are growing next to the water. That's just a, you know, in addition to kind of the normal metrics we take, we do take regular water quality samples for things like coliform bacteria. We actually have three web enabled hydro stations on the campus, on the creeks, the south, the north fork and the Speaker 3: main stem down there by Oxford. That measure consists, you know, constantly things like temperature, [00:12:00] um, flow turbidity and conductivity. That's been incredibly helpful in seeing when there's been, um, you know, illegal discharges to the creek as well as, uh, a valuable engineering tool to see how the creek behaves during storms. So yeah, there's actually a lot of data that's coming out now and I know as Tyler mentioned, that as we kind of improve access and safety in these areas where you need a lot more data coming back. A lot of students do their senior projects from the college of natural [00:12:30] resources and even integrated biology, um, using the creek as kind of the basis for their, their, their research project. It's been fabulous to see the data coming out of these. Quite a compendium where we're developing now. Speaker 5: [inaudible] you're listening to spectrum on KALX Berkeley [00:13:00] talking with Tim Klein and Tyler Greenberg, but the strawberry creek restoration [inaudible]. Speaker 4: So of the invasive species that you're dealing with, is there a broad [00:13:30] spectrum of plants and bugs and things? What would they be? Invasive plants usually don't find a broad spectrum, which is the problem. You have a monoculture, generally one species of plant, which doesn't function well in a natural ecosystem where you want a wide diversity and species written it richness of plants and so on campus. I feel our two biggest problems for groundcover species are Ivey of both English and Algerian of varieties as well as Vinca, which is Perry Winkle. [00:14:00] Um, but I feel like those are two main ground cover plants. And then up in the canyon there's a lot of blackberry, but those are the plants who are primarily concerned with. They're moving on campus and they're actually fairly easy to remove. And once we explained to our students why we want to move these plants in, we really give them the reasons behind why we do it. They're actually very, um, encouraged to get out of be with the plants. I've seen my students not during class actually out there with their friends. We're moving plants on their own. Do you get to have any input [00:14:30] at all into the planning of the campus related to creek side changes or you know, building that might be happening are pending? Yeah, they do. They consult. That's a, a very, a fairly recent thing where Speaker 3: my group does see a proposed projects at the early stages. If we do comment on the, not the, um, the conceptual plan, but also we get copies of the design plans as they're going through their stage to final design. And [00:15:00] those plans are reviewed by each member of my team for various impacts to water quality. A very good case in point, we'd be say a building, well there's a proposed replacement for Eshelman coming up and we've been in very, very early abroad in on the design part to deal with any runoff from the rooftop, from the landscaped area and this is going to be a project and when it finally is done, that's going to [00:15:30] capture an infiltrate as much storm water run off as possible. And depending on what time of year it could be as high as a hundred percent capture and re infiltration and groundwater. Speaker 3: Those considerations were never even anywhere on the radar as as little as 10 years ago. So that's just a perfect example of, you know how having the ability to comment on these days. Seeing projects early on has really helped out Morgan stadium to Morgan stadiums that really another really great example is [00:16:00] now I'm that water collecting in the stadium is going to go through a pretreatment system and an infiltration system to both trap pollutants and to try to put as much of that water back down on the groundwater table as possible. So it's been a really a neat thing to see. Those kinds of, some of those kinds of comments be incorporated into the design. Speaker 4: And you mentioned a nursery as well. It's part of the, the whole process. Describe the nursery activity that you're doing. Yeah, and I really feel it's our third partner restoration [00:16:30] after um, assessing water quality, removing invasive plants, we finally have to reintroduce native plants. We can't just leave these areas bear. And so through a grant with the Green Initiative Fund TJF where students get a few dollars every semester voluntarily into this pool. We got a grant to build a native play nursery on campus and took about a year to build. It was finally done. We had our grand opening last Wednesday, so we had a good ceremony there. But we have one of our nursery coordinators or a restoration coordinator who also does nursery your work. David Pawn, [00:17:00] he's a third year here at cal studying environmental science and he propagates native plants right in the nursery on campus. And then once we grow this plant, students can then do the final step of restoration where they put these plants into the ground and monitor the area. Speaker 4: Where is the nursery, the nurseries in the welding courtyards. So by Jean Nini and Wellman Hall and the college onto our resources. In terms of what volunteers can do, are there things, you know, if somebody wants to be involved [00:17:30] but doesn't want to go dig up Ivy, can they help? Uh, definitely. And we, we understand students have different levels of involvement, you know, of what they actually want to actually want to do. And I think everyone should be getting their hands dirty. That's just my opinion. But we have people work in our nursery. We don't really have our volunteers do other outreach work, although I guess it's something we can think about starting to do. Speaker 3: I, you know, that's a great question because, um, you know, one of the criticisms [00:18:00] that I've been very kind of cognizant of is that we could do more in terms of the outreach part of this thing. You know, given that resources are going to be so critical to our continued, you know, health and functioning as a group. You know, I'll admit that we, we tend to put more time on the ground as Tyler mentioned because I think that's our focus. But we would love it if people who have an interest in marketing and outreach people in publication though. Absolutely. We would welcome any skillset. I'm sure we can apply it to um, [00:18:30] the restoration program and were born very inserted in hearing any ideas that people have. Is there any point that you guys wanted to make? Speaker 4: Do either of you, one of the points I wanted to make, I'm not sure if I made it earlier, is that how important it is for us to take stewardship of our local environment. In my environmental science classes, I've actually learned a bit about how native Americans were stewards of their environments. That's really why California looks the way it does now. All these, what we call the native plants is because native Americans [00:19:00] tend to those plants and create a series of events that allowed those plants to be successful. And so when a student comes here as a freshman, I think that's just as important to learn about how to use telomeres as it is to learn about the native plants we have on campus. I know it sounds really corny, but after they work with us, they look at the creek a different way because when you work on the water, when you work in the right parents zone, something does change in you. You have a sense of ownership of the environment. That's what we need and so I think [00:19:30] as a campus we need to ensure at least after I'm gone and even while I'm here, that all students become stewards of Strawberry Creek and the local watershed. Thank you both for coming today and talking with us. Thank you very much. Speaker 3: Which was my pleasure. I could talk about the creek all day long. Speaker 1: [inaudible] [inaudible] Speaker 6: [00:20:00] to contact or volunteer for the Strawberry Creek Restoration. Visit their website, Strawberry creek.berkeley.edu as always, you can contact spectrum if you want this contact information. Speaker 1: [inaudible]Speaker 6: [00:20:30] a regular feature of spectrum is to mention a few of the science and technology events happening locally over the next few weeks. The June Science at Cau lecture will given at 11:00 AM Speaker 2: on June 18th in the genetics and plant biology building room 100 the June 18th talk will be given by Terry Johnson and is entitled synthetic biology [00:21:00] beating the cell at its own game. Bioengineering lecturer Terry Johnson received the Spring 2011 outstanding instructor award from the Bio Engineering Honor Society. He was also awarded the 2011 outstanding faculty of the Year award and named an eminent engineer by the Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honor Society. Join the center for Biological Diversity and the Ecology Center for a presentation on [00:21:30] the clean air act and how it may be our best hope against climate change. The title of the presentation is the clean air act and global warming, how it works, why we need it and what we can do to support it. This presentation is free. The presentation will be Wednesday, June 22nd 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM at the Ecology Center, which is at 25 30 San Pablo Avenue in Berkeley, Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute [00:22:00] or Ambari is holding an open house on Saturday, June 25th this event is free. Speaker 2: The Ambari open house features science and technology exhibits deep sea videos, research presentations, robotic submarines, children's activities, ocean career information, and much more Ambari staff scientists and engineers will share their excitement about the institutes work. Visitors can view a remotely operated vehicle [00:22:30] and some of their autonomous underwater vehicles and Baris research vessels will also be on view at the dock with related displays. Visitors can also find out about the Monterey Bay aquarium's Seafood Watch program and a new marine environmental organization. The center for Ocean Solutions. The Open House is Saturday, June 25th from noon until 5:00 PM the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute is located at [00:23:00] 7,700 sand Holt road, moss landing, California. Their website is ambari.org the link to the open house is found under news briefs. Now some stories in the news. The journal Science has given its May science prize for online resources and education or spore award to the periodic table of videos. Speaker 2: Science editorial fellow Melissa McCartney says the videos are an entertaining [00:23:30] mix of experiments and anecdotes and are aimed at anyone with a curiosity for chemistry. No prior knowledge on the part of the viewer as needed. The chemistry themed videos are produced by University of Nottingham Professor Martin Poliakoff, journalist Heron Chemist Pete licence, Steve Ladelle and Debbie ks and lab technician Neil Barnes. The periodic table of videos was conceived in 2008 after heron tape Poliakoff as part of another series [00:24:00] of videos called the test tube project. They decided to collaborate on the periodic table of elements and within about five weeks the videos for all 118 elements had been uploaded to youtube. The periodic table of videos continues to grow with videos about chemistry topics beyond the elements such as segments that play off the news. The site now hosts more than 300 videos. The videos can be viewed on youtube search for periodic table of videos. Speaker 2: [00:24:30] They may also be viewed@thewebsiteperiodicvideos.com which is helpful at schools where youtube is blocked. The American Association for the Advancement of Science website reports that an American research team has succeeded in high tech grand survey of ancient Egyptian settlements, tombs and pyramids by analyzing high resolution satellite imagery covering all of Egypt. Researchers have reportedly discovered up to 17 lost pyramids, nearly 3000 ancient [00:25:00] settlements and 1000 tunes. The effort was led by archeologists, Sarah Parcak of the University of Alabama Birmingham Parcak began her study 11 years ago searching for traces of ancient village walls buried under Egypt's fields and desert sands obtaining images from both NASA and quickbird satellites. She combined an analyze data from the visible imagery as well as from the infrared and thermal parts of the light spectrum. [00:25:30] Through trial and error, she discovered that the most informative images were taken during the relatively wet weeks of late winter. During this period, buried mud brick walls absorbed more moisture than usual producing a subtle chemical signature in the overlying soil that showed up in high resolution infrared satellite images to further test. Speaker 2: Some of the most recent satellite finds. Park enlisted the help of a French archeological team already digging at the 3000 year old site [00:26:00] known as Tannis Park Act says they found an almost 100% correlation between what we see on the imagery and what we see on the ground. In the wake of the fines, the Egyptian government reached an agreement to work with Park and others, American researchers to develop a nationwide satellite imagery project to monitor archaeological sites from space and protect them from looting and illegal house construction and other encroachments park says of the agreement. We are going to be teaching [00:26:30] young Egyptians how to look at the satellite data and analyze it so they can keep an eye on the sites. She and her colleagues plan to raise funds privately to support the effort. This item from the UC Berkeley News Center website written by Robert Sanders, a new initiative for citizen scientists and the crowdsourcing of ecosystem observation has been launched named the global amphibian blitz. Speaker 2: Any adventurer, hiker or backyard naturalist where the camera can help scientists survey [00:27:00] and hopefully save the world's amphibians. Thanks to a new social networking site that links citizen scientists with researchers tracking the decline of Amphibians around the globe. The global amphibian blitz is a new partnership between the University of California Berkeley's Amphibia web and six other amphibian groups. The new website is provided by I naturalist.org a bay area social network for naturalists. The website allows amateur naturalists from [00:27:30] around the world to submit their amphibian photographs along with dates and gps locations. The project is curated by a team of scientists who will identify and filter the submissions in search of rare species or out of range occurrences of interest to scientific and conservation communities in an effort to protect the data from commercial collectors and others who would exploit the information. The exact whereabouts are rare and endangered amphibians are obscured to all but the scientific community. [00:28:00] The website can be reached by going to eye naturalist.org/projects and click on the global amphibian blitz. That's I naturalist.org there is also a youtube video explaining the project to find it. Search for a global amphibian blitz Speaker 1: [inaudible].Speaker 6: [00:28:30] The music heard during the show is spineless. Donna David from his album, folk and acoustic, made available through a creative Commons license. 3.0 attribution editing assistance was provided by Judith White, Marcel [inaudible] and Gretchen Sanderson. Speaker 1: [00:29:00] [inaudible]. Speaker 6: Thank you for listening to spectrum. We are happy to hear from our listeners. If you have comments about the show, please send them to us via email. Our email addresses spectrum dot k a l x@yahoo.com join us in two weeks at the same time. Speaker 1: [00:29:30] [inaudible].Speaker 4: The abuse occurred during the show is by Listonic Donna David from his album folk and acoustic made [00:29:00] available by a creative Commons attribution only licensed 3.0 editing assistance was provided by Judith White Marceline and Gretchen Sanders. Thank you for listening to spectrum. If you have any comments about the show, please send them to us via email. Our email address is spectrum dot k a l x@yahoo.com join us in two weeks [00:29:30] at the same time. Speaker 5: [inaudible]. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.