Science Moab

Series produced by KZMU Moab Community Radio

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Image by: Buddy Hill & Kristina Young 

A radio show exploring the science and learning about the scientists from the Colorado Plateau

Science Moab is a weekly half-hour program exploring current research going on within the Colorado Plateau and beyond, the show includes interviews with scientists about the fascinating research they are conducting in our area. Host and producer Kristina Young explores basic ideas behind various scientific topics, the kinds of research that scientists do to answer their questions, and how current research can help us understand our changing world. Science topics span ecology, geology, chemistry, archaeology, hydrology, and any other -ology that might come our way.


102 Pieces

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Sagebrush once stretched across almost 500,000 square miles from the Dakotas to California. Each year, a million acres is lost to invasive species,...

  • Added: Feb 14, 2024
  • Length: 20:13
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Can the simple beauty of an organism be enough to want to restore and preserve it? If so, Aspen would be at the top of that list. So much more th...

  • Added: Jan 15, 2024
  • Length: 20:02
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Cirsium scopulorum, or mountain thistle, was long thought to be the only species of thistle occurring in the alpine tundra. Molecular, morphologica...

  • Added: Oct 29, 2023
  • Length: 20:13
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High alpine talus slopes are home to a myriad of creatures, namely mountain goats and American pikas, both specialists in alpine habitats. We talk...

  • Added: Sep 21, 2023
  • Length: 20:23
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Here in SE Utah, we are living in a geologically young, rapidly eroding landscape and we have the Colorado River to thank for sculpting such a beau...

  • Added: Sep 13, 2023
  • Length: 22:10
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Around the world, civilizations have literally been built on rock and the specific rock type of an area has definite influences on that society. Sc...

  • Added: Aug 23, 2023
  • Length: 20:45
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On October 14, 2023, an annular solar eclipse will cross North, Central, and South America. Parts of SE Utah will be in the direct path of the ecl...

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  • Added: Jul 30, 2023
  • Length: 19:09
  • Purchases: 1
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Sedimentologists are geologists that study rocks on the earth’s surface today in order to interpret ancient depositional environments. By studying...

  • Added: Jul 02, 2023
  • Length: 21:47
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Drylands encompass over 40% of terrestrial ecosystems and face significant degradation from a warming/drying climate and overuse. To combat this de...

  • Added: May 29, 2023
  • Length: 19:34
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Rivers have a magic way of healing, transforming and inspiring. From the calmest riffle to barnstorming haystacks, rivers always have rapids. Thi...

  • Added: May 04, 2023
  • Length: 20:11
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In the deserts, the soil surface is alive. The soil is covered with lichens, mosses, cyanobacteria, algae, fungi and other microorganisms that toge...

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  • Added: May 11, 2018
  • Length: 17:52
  • Purchases: 2
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When you’re walking over the desert soil, you’re walking over huge amounts of fungi. These fungi are connected to the roots of grasses and shrubs, ...

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  • Added: May 12, 2018
  • Length: 23:39
  • Purchases: 2
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The geology of the Colorado Plateau is amazingly exposed and incredibly dramatic. Here, we get to hear about the forces and slow passage of time th...

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  • Added: May 12, 2018
  • Length: 28:56
  • Purchases: 1
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Humans have been using and modifying the ecosystems around on the Colorado Plateau for thousands of years. To understand human relationships with t...

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  • Added: May 20, 2018
  • Length: 30:23
  • Purchases: 1
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Cheatgrass is one of the most pervasive, non-native grasses in the American West, changing ecosystems almost everywhere it goes. Here, we talk with...

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  • Added: May 23, 2018
  • Length: 30:18
  • Purchases: 1
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Climate change will result in lasting changes for the ecosystems of the Colorado Plateau. Here, we talk with Dr. Scott Ferrenberg about what the ec...

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  • Added: May 23, 2018
  • Length: 27:24
  • Purchases: 1
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Bark beetles evolved to live in western forests. But in recent decades the number of beetles has grown so large that they are killing millions of a...

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  • Added: May 23, 2018
  • Length: 25:28
  • Purchases: 1
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The Colorado Plateau holds an incredible amount of native plant diversity, however past and current land use practices and future climate change th...

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  • Added: May 23, 2018
  • Length: 26:55
  • Purchases: 1
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Here we talk about a field called geomorphology with Christopher Ely. We explore Amazonian headwater streams in the Andes Mountains of southern Ecu...

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  • Added: May 23, 2018
  • Length: 21:34
  • Purchases: 2
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There is shocking little known about why animals act the ways they do. From competition, to territoriality, there is an incredible amount left to d...

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  • Added: May 23, 2018
  • Length: 29:21
  • Purchases: 3