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Science in the City:  Journey to the Farallones (clip)
Running Time:
00:04:07
Twenty-seven miles beyond the Golden Gate, the craggy Farallon Islands have been home to fur-seal hunters from Russia, a gold-rush-era egg business, and even a nuclear waste dump. Today they’re home to 250,000 sea birds, not to mention seals, sea lions, whales, and sharks. What makes these stark-looking islands so attractive to wildlife?

Project: Science in the City | Browse All

Date: January 26, 2011
Format: Expedition
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): General Science
Ice Stories:  Whales Under Ice (clip)
Running Time:
00:02:52
Craig George and Glenn Sheehan explain how scientists have learned from Iñupiaq hunters to make more accurate counts of bowhead whales.

Project: Ice Stories: Dispatches from Polar Scientists | Browse All

Date: September 1, 2007
Format: Expedition
Category: Science in Action
Subject(s): Life Science/Biology
Ice Stories:  Daniel Lum Interview about Bowhead Whales (clip)
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00:01:26
Daniel Lum talks about the importance of the Bowhead whale to the native Barrow community.

Project: Ice Stories: Dispatches from Polar Scientists | Browse All

Date: August 29, 2007
Format: Interview
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): General Science
Ice Stories:  Barrow Town (clip)
Running Time:
00:00:27
Scenes of Barrow, Alaska, near coast.

Project: Ice Stories: Dispatches from Polar Scientists | Browse All

Date: August 28, 2007
Format: Expedition
Category: Everyday Science
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