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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Science and conservation in the United States are made up of primarily white scientists and Western ways of thinking. This is something that Sergio...

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  • Added: May 06, 2021
  • Length: 19:32
  • Purchases: 2
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The humpback chub have been swimming in the wild and turbulent waters of the Colorado River Basin for 3 million years. They have been endangered s...

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  • Added: Jun 15, 2021
  • Length: 17:46
  • Purchases: 1
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When puffy white clouds appear in the sky above a hot arid landscape, one may wonder “where is that moisture coming from?”. The desert southwest i...

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  • Added: Jun 24, 2021
  • Length: 20:10
  • Purchases: 2
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Mike and Jenny Fiebig traveled for 183 days over 1800 miles from the source of the Green River in the Wind River Range to where the Colorado River ...

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  • Added: Jul 01, 2021
  • Length: 19:40
  • Purchases: 1
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When dinosaurs roamed the earth, Southeast Utah was a coastal paradise. Dinosaurs flourished in this utopia in numbers and variety of species unli...

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  • Added: Jul 08, 2021
  • Length: 19:42
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Soil mapping involves interpreting landscapes, how soil changes across it, and a bit of art to represent repeatable patterns in a map. The mapping...

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  • Added: Jul 13, 2021
  • Length: 18:29
  • Purchases: 2
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There are lots of different forms of knowledge, from place-based, community knowledge to science in laboratories. When this wide diversity of under...

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  • Added: Jul 18, 2021
  • Length: 18:21
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The sheer number of recreationists in southern Utah has brought the subject of human waste in the backcountry to a head. The Southeast Utah Health...

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  • Added: Jul 28, 2021
  • Length: 19:00
  • Purchases: 2
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The unique ecosystem of Southwestern Utah includes bits of the Mojave Desert, the Colorado Plateau, and the Great Basin. Here you can find 18 of t...

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  • Added: Aug 05, 2021
  • Length: 21:21
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The invasive quagga mussel found its way into Lake Powell in 2012. This rapidly spreading nuisance species is affecting the lake’s ecology, namely...

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  • Added: Aug 11, 2021
  • Length: 20:05
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As the number of climbers grows across the country, so does the number of climbing visitors to Indian Creek (San Juan County, UT). Concern is risi...

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  • Added: Aug 25, 2021
  • Length: 19:05
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Monsoons in the desert southwest rely on a seasonal wind shift to occur. They don’t always materialize. When they come, though, the drastic chang...

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  • Added: Aug 26, 2021
  • Length: 17:39
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“Leave No Trace” is not a new concept for most outdoor enthusiasts but the LNT recommendations for engaging with the outdoors are always updating a...

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  • Added: Sep 12, 2021
  • Length: 23:32
  • Purchases: 2
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In the red rock deserts of the southwest, there is little soil to absorb rainfall. It usually runs off the rock to the lowest point which is commo...

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  • Added: Oct 10, 2021
  • Length: 19:33
  • Purchases: 1
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Biogeography is the distribution of life within and around landforms. In a large deep canyon, that distribution is influenced by the elevation and...

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  • Added: Oct 14, 2021
  • Length: 21:34
  • Purchases: 3
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Traditional knowledge systems that contain regenerative relationships with the land have been in place for generations on the Colorado Plateau. Wit...

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  • Added: Oct 27, 2021
  • Length: 21:16
  • Purchases: 2
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The Colorado Plateau is host to many environmental contaminants, both natural and man-made. These dangerous substances can find their way into wat...

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  • Added: Nov 04, 2021
  • Length: 20:44
  • Purchases: 1
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Tribal communities are working on their own terms and with their own knowledge system to address and create resiliency to the coming changes. We t...

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  • Added: Nov 11, 2021
  • Length: 04:31
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Colleen Cooley grew up in Shą́ą́ʼtóhí, a small community located on the Navajo Nation in northeast Arizona. She guides on the San Juan and Green Ri...

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  • Added: Dec 09, 2021
  • Length: 18:58
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Reading a snowpack can be as much art as it is science. We talk with Eric Trenbeath, avalanche forecaster for the USFS Utah Avalanche Center for th...

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  • Added: Dec 09, 2021
  • Length: 21:09
  • Purchases: 1