How On Earth Radio

How On Earth is KGNU community radio’s award-winning weekly science show based in Boulder, Colo. A small group of science journalists, scientists and engineers produce and broadcast the 25-minute show. Each episode consists of one to two features (totaling 18 minutes) that are preceded by three to four short headlines (spanning 4-5 minutes). The features are typically live or prerecorded interviews with scientists, science policy makers and authors focusing on current issues that have a Colorado angle (though often they are of national or even global relevance).

Here is a sample of some recent feature interviews (with links to the shows):  

-- Dr. Matthew Evans, a MIT physicist and member of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration, regarding the first detection of gravity waves in February;

-- NOAA scientist Dr. Alexander MacDonald, a NOAA (Boulder) scientist, and Christopher Clack, a mathematician at the University of Colorado-Boulder, who developed a model that demonstrates how within 15 years the entire U.S. could run on solar and wind power with existing technologies, with no batteries, and at lower cost than today’s prices;

--  Dr. Jonathan Lundgren, an entomologist at USDA in South Dakota who studies the role that predator insects play as biological pest controls, and whose research on the negative effects of common insecticides on pollinators has been met with political pressure;