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Science in the City: Busy Bees (Clip)
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Just outside the hum and buzz of San Francisco, there's a hum and buzz of a different sort.
It's the sound of thousands of acres of almond crops being pollinated by bees—bees in such demand
that they must be trucked in from as far as Texas. Almond grower Dave Phippen explains why.
keeping this winged labor force happy and healthy is a vital but tricky business.
Project: Science in the City | Browse All
Date: April 27, 2011
Format: Interview
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): General Science, Life Science/Biology
Keywords: bees, pollination, farming, almonds, california, exploratorium, hives, agriculture, central valley
Project: Science in the City | Browse All
Date: April 27, 2011
Format: Interview
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): General Science, Life Science/Biology
Keywords: bees, pollination, farming, almonds, california, exploratorium, hives, agriculture, central valley
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Driven: Flowers on the Freeway (Slideshow)
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Hayes Valley Farm is a community-run farm on a former freeway
in the middle of San Francisco. The land was slated for condo
development but the plan was put off when the economy slumped.
Out of the ashes of that dream arose a utopia of a different sort; a
suspended reality where fruit trees are grown on what was once a
freeway on-ramp choked with cars. Now there are flowers growing
out of the double yellow lines, and constant opportunities for
children and adults to learn how to grow food and to get dirty doing
it. Although the farm has only an "interim use" permit, meaning
that it can't last forever, farmers Zoey Kroll and Jay Rosenberg
know that the enduring harvest of this project--the truth that even
the most outlandish-sounding things are possible if we make them
so--will far outlive the farm itself.
Project: Driven: True Stories of Inspiration | Browse All
Date: August 27, 2010
Format: Expedition
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): art
Keywords: farm, hayes valley farm, zoey kroll, jay rosenberg
Project: Driven: True Stories of Inspiration | Browse All
Date: August 27, 2010
Format: Expedition
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): art
Keywords: farm, hayes valley farm, zoey kroll, jay rosenberg
| Links: | Hayes Valley Farm official website |
Ice Stories: Antarctica, McMurdo, Williams Field, Basler take-off (Clip)
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A Kenn Borek Basler (Turbo DC-3) taxis, takes-off, and flies low back over the field at Williams Airfield outside McMurdo Station, Antarctica
Project: Ice Stories: Dispatches from Polar Scientists | Browse All
Date: January 3, 2009
Format: Expedition
Category: Science in Action
Subject(s): Geology/Earth Science,
Keywords: antarctica, mcmurdo, transportation, aviation, airplane, kenn borek, basler, turbo dc-3, take-off, fly-over
Project: Ice Stories: Dispatches from Polar Scientists | Browse All
Date: January 3, 2009
Format: Expedition
Category: Science in Action
Subject(s): Geology/Earth Science,
Keywords: antarctica, mcmurdo, transportation, aviation, airplane, kenn borek, basler, turbo dc-3, take-off, fly-over
Ice Stories: POLENET (Polar Earth Observing Network) (Webcast)
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Our Exploratorium team talks to scientists from POLENET (Polar Earth Observing Network).
Project: Ice Stories: Dispatches from Polar Scientists | Browse All
Date: January 2, 2009
Format: Expedition
Category: Science in Action
Subject(s): Geology/Earth Science, Life Science/Biology
Keywords: glaciers, dry, desert, snow, mcmurdo, antarctica, ecology
Project: Ice Stories: Dispatches from Polar Scientists | Browse All
Date: January 2, 2009
Format: Expedition
Category: Science in Action
Subject(s): Geology/Earth Science, Life Science/Biology
Keywords: glaciers, dry, desert, snow, mcmurdo, antarctica, ecology
| Links: | Project: Pulse of the Poles |
Ice Stories: Antarctica, McMurdo, Williams Field, Basler (Turbo DC-3) (Clip)
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Kenn Borek Basler(s) (more accurately called a Turbo DC-3) at the Williams Field which services McMurdo Station, Antarctica.
Project: Ice Stories: Dispatches from Polar Scientists | Browse All
Date: January 2, 2009
Format: Expedition
Category: Science in Action
Subject(s): Geology/Earth Science,
Keywords: antarctica, mcmurdo, transportation, aviation, airplane, kenn borek, basler, turbo dc-3, williams, willy field
Project: Ice Stories: Dispatches from Polar Scientists | Browse All
Date: January 2, 2009
Format: Expedition
Category: Science in Action
Subject(s): Geology/Earth Science,
Keywords: antarctica, mcmurdo, transportation, aviation, airplane, kenn borek, basler, turbo dc-3, williams, willy field
Ice Stories: Glaciers and the Simple Life in Antarctica’s Dry Valleys (Clip)
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In this interview from in front of the Canada Glacier in Antarctica’s Taylor Valley, Hassan Basagic from Portland State University describes the essential role of polar glaciers in supporting the bare-bones ecosystems in the Dry Valleys.
Project: Ice Stories: Dispatches from Polar Scientists | Browse All
Date: December 31, 2008
Format: Interview
Category: Science in Action
Subject(s): Geology/Earth Science, Life Science/Biology
Keywords: dry valleys, antarctica, ecology, ecosystem, glaciers, canada glacier, taylor valley, ice
Project: Ice Stories: Dispatches from Polar Scientists | Browse All
Date: December 31, 2008
Format: Interview
Category: Science in Action
Subject(s): Geology/Earth Science, Life Science/Biology
Keywords: dry valleys, antarctica, ecology, ecosystem, glaciers, canada glacier, taylor valley, ice
| Links: | Dispatch: Glaciers and the Simple Life in Antarctica’s Dry Valleys |
Ice Stories: Visit to Shackleton's Hut (Webcast)
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Our intrepid Exploratorium team shares experiences from their visit to Shackleton's hut. This hut is at Cape Royds, where Shackleton mounted an expedition to the South Pole and made a first ascent of Mt. Erebus.
Project: Ice Stories: Dispatches from Polar Scientists | Browse All
Date: December 28, 2008
Format: Expedition
Category: Science in Action
Subject(s): General Science, History
Keywords: historic, discovery, hut, mcmurdo, exploration
Project: Ice Stories: Dispatches from Polar Scientists | Browse All
Date: December 28, 2008
Format: Expedition
Category: Science in Action
Subject(s): General Science, History
Keywords: historic, discovery, hut, mcmurdo, exploration
Ice Stories: An Airport Made of Ice (Clip)
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The POLENET project takes scientists all over the continent to install equipment, and to get there they leave from Williams Field, an airport near McMurdo Station. Willy Field has a runway equipped to handle the largest aircraft that fly into Antarctica. However, this runway is different; there's no pavement here - this runway is made of ice.
POLENET's Stephanie Konfal gives us a look at Willy Field.
Project: Ice Stories: Dispatches from Polar Scientists | Browse All
Date: December 21, 2008
Format: Expedition
Category: Science in Action
Subject(s): Geology/Earth Science
Keywords: aircraft, airplanes, airport, antarctica, mcmurdo station, williams field, willy field
Project: Ice Stories: Dispatches from Polar Scientists | Browse All
Date: December 21, 2008
Format: Expedition
Category: Science in Action
Subject(s): Geology/Earth Science
Keywords: aircraft, airplanes, airport, antarctica, mcmurdo station, williams field, willy field
| Links: | Dispatch: An Airport Made of Ice |
Ice Stories: Foodstores in Antarctica (Clip)
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Peggy Malloy is THE person you want to be friends with if you are going out into the field with decent food. She is responsible for the field camp food stores. People who are out in the field need to be supplied with food. LOTS of food!
Project: Ice Stories: Dispatches from Polar Scientists | Browse All
Date: December 15, 2008
Format: Expedition
Category: Science in Action
Subject(s):
Keywords: antarctica, mcmurdo, food, survival, camping
Project: Ice Stories: Dispatches from Polar Scientists | Browse All
Date: December 15, 2008
Format: Expedition
Category: Science in Action
Subject(s):
Keywords: antarctica, mcmurdo, food, survival, camping
| Links: | Dispatch: Foodstores |
Ice Stories: Holiday Weather in McMurdo (Clip)
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Thanksgiving Day weather at McMurdo Station, Antarctica, turned out to be pretty interesting, as weather always can change quickly here. Our holiday weekend greeted us with 50 mph winds, but it didn’t affect the great feast we had in the dining hall.
Project: Ice Stories: Dispatches from Polar Scientists | Browse All
Date: December 2, 2008
Format: Expedition
Category: Science in Action
Subject(s): Geology/Earth Science
Keywords: extreme weather, wind, mcmurdo station, antarctica
Project: Ice Stories: Dispatches from Polar Scientists | Browse All
Date: December 2, 2008
Format: Expedition
Category: Science in Action
Subject(s): Geology/Earth Science
Keywords: extreme weather, wind, mcmurdo station, antarctica
| Links: | Dispatch: Holiday Weather in McMurdo |
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