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First Aired - 02/15/2010 12:00PM
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This week on The Naturalist, Bernie Wides talks about pollution in some of our New York waterways. Also, he talks about hibernating animals and winter birds.
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The Naturalist Introduction: Newtown Creek (10:10)
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The Naturalist, Bernie Wides, Heritage Radio Network, Salumi Artisinal Cured Meats, Newtown Creek, the border between Queens & Brooklyn, seals are back in New York harbor, wildlife, newtown Creek is one of the nations most polluted waterways, underground water spill has been causing problems in Greenpoint for decades, the creek is a dead end, EPA, sediment, contamination was found in just about every part of the creek, gas plants, asphalt plants, PCB's, chemicals, remediation,Toxic Algae & Brown Tide (16:50)
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Gowanus Canal, fish are back in the creek, blue fish, the waterway is being cleaned, Greenport, Long Island, scallop industry, November opening of scallop season, toxic marine algae, brown tide, economically devastating harvest, toxic plankton, Suffolk County, Peconic Bay, Orient Point, spawning and fertilization, Nature Conservancy, Stonybrook University, Long Island University, Cornell University, nitrogen, the abductor muscle is the only edible part of the scallop,Winter Birds & Hibernating Animals (13:26)
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hibernation, squirrels, acorns, birds, chickadees, sparrows, cardinal, starling, winter vacation, which animals are still out in the wintertime?, city parks, bird feeder, bird seed mixes, the white breasted nut hatch, downy woodpecker, Carolina wren, fox sparrow, American goldfinch, why hibernate?, energy comes from food which is often difficult to find in the winter, mammals are warm blooded, Groundhog's Day, Mayor Bloomberg, cold blooded animals cannot survive in the snow and ice, salamander, insects, larva, pupa, praying mantis,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 11/30/2009 12:00PM
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Judith Weis returns to The Naturalist to continue her discussion on salt marshes. This week she touches on history, pollution, species invasion and restoration of the marshes.
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The Physical Alteration Of Salt Marches (13:06)
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Bernie Wides, The Naturalist, salt marshes, Salt Marshes: A Natural And Unnatural History, interactions between people and salt marshes, Judith is a professor of marine biology at Rutgers, people used to view salt marshes as useless, we have lost many acres of salt marshes over the years which have become towns, Jamaica Bay, a house on stilts, salt marsh with straight channel creeks is not normal, normal creeks curve, mosquito, they breed on the marsh surface in pools of water, barricade, killifish, Jones Beach, bird sanctuary, Vanderbilt Museum, farming, salt hay, cowlicks, Dutch, Manhattan, physical alterations, Tekserve, Judith Weis,Pollution In Salt Marshes (8:00)
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agricultural chemicals, pesticides, mosquito control, these chemicals kill a lot of other things, they also affect development, industrial chemicals, Newark Bay, industry polluting water, blue fish, striped bass, they end up with the greatest concentration of these chemicals in their bodies, PCBs, blue crabs are banned in Northern New Jersey because of contamination, blue crabs, Polychlorinated biphenyl, excess nutrients, sewage, treatment plants, fertilizers, human waste, algae bloom, the algae die and sink to the bottom to decay, the process of decaying uses up oxygen, dead zones, chemical pollution,Invasive Species & Salt Marsh Restoration (16:18)
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invasive species, they are not native to an area and cause trouble, phragmites, a new variety has been causing trouble, native species is a part of the high marsh, spartina, China, California, crabs, mussels, green crab, arrived a couple of hundred years ago, Maine, clams, restoration, No Net Loss of Wetlands, sea level rise, mars can migrate inland without roads and towns, restoration has a long way to go before it becomes a real science, trial and error, remediation, cleaning up pollution, Hackensack Meadowlands, HMDC, garbage dump regulation, development and environmental protection, clean water act, there has been a huge difference in the past 30 years, New Jersey Meadowlands Commission, eco tours, kayaks, Lindhurst, boardwalks, nature tours, Hackensack River Keeper,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 01/28/2013 11:00AM
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Factory farming is the focus on part 3 of our compendium to the upcoming TEDxManhattan event in NYC on February 18th. Erin Fairbanks chats with Steve Wing, professor of Epidemiology at the University of North Carolina about the community health impacts of factory farm animal production. Tune in as they discuss the challenges we face in improving large scale livestock production, reducing pollution and ensuring safety in our food systems. This program was sponsored by Glynwood.
"As far as the future - unfortunately I'm afraid we may have to continue these sorts of studies because we haven't seen positive signs from the regulatory agencies that they will take action to reduce the pollution levels and the suffering of people who are being affected." [13:00]
"For the most part, people are not really aware of the consequences of food production when they're buying things at the store." [17:00]
--Steve Wing on HeritageRadioNetwork.org
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