Science Moab

By Peggy Hodgkins

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Episodes: 180

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A podcast exploring the science and learning about the scientists from southeast Utah and the Colorado Plateau. Produced by Science Moab and KZMU.

Episode Date
Wellspring: A Story of Life & Water on Black Mesa, Part 2
Jun 16, 2026
Wellspring: A Story of Life & Water on Black Mesa, Part 1
Jun 02, 2026
Life in the Hanging Gardens
Apr 07, 2026
Unveiling Ozone
Mar 03, 2026
A Modern Wonder from Ancient Dunes: The Iconic Navajo Sandstone, Part 2
Feb 17, 2026
A Modern Wonder from Ancient Dunes: The Iconic Navajo Sandstone, Part 1
Feb 03, 2026
PALEONTOLOGY PASSION: A School to Science Story
Jan 06, 2026
Drylands: The Dark Horse of Carbon Cycling
Dec 02, 2025
Nanosaurs & Good Lore
Nov 04, 2025
The Miracle of Lichen
Oct 21, 2025
Eureka at Cisco: Jurassic Mammals
Oct 07, 2025
Dieback Dynamics
Sep 16, 2025
Utah's Chinle Formation: Understanding Life in the Triassic
Sep 02, 2025
Underneath the Rivers: Stewardship of Utah's Sovereign Lands
Aug 05, 2025
Creating Water Resiliency on the Navajo Nation
Jun 14, 2025
Clearing Out the Fuels
Jun 03, 2025
Monitoring Stream Flow
May 06, 2025
Return of the Buffalo
Mar 23, 2025
Water, Land, and Identity
Mar 04, 2025
Dear Ovis...Volume 1
Jan 28, 2025
Wintertime Stories
Jan 07, 2025
A Day of Science in the Park
Nov 20, 2024
Backyard Creek Restoration
Nov 05, 2024
Understanding Threats to Old Growth Ponderosa Pines
Oct 15, 2024
Collaboration for Preservation
Oct 01, 2024
Changing Food Webs
Sep 17, 2024
Rock Glaciers and Water Sustainability
Sep 03, 2024
Living with Volcanoes
Aug 06, 2024
Day at the Museum
Jul 02, 2024
Memory In Trees
Jun 04, 2024
Finding Collaboration and Trust Uncovering the Past
May 07, 2024
Studying Growth Rates of the Humpback Chub
Apr 02, 2024
Restoration on the Range
Mar 19, 2024
Working Together for River Conservation
Mar 05, 2024
The Space between the Mountains
Feb 20, 2024
The Next Generation of Indigenous Scientists
Feb 06, 2024
Beautiful and Resilient
Jan 23, 2024
Preserving the Past
Jan 02, 2024
Unique Alpine Giants
Nov 07, 2023
Human Noise and the Desert Bighorn
Oct 24, 2023
Recovery After Fire
Oct 17, 2023
Sculpting a Plateau
Oct 10, 2023
Talus Interactions
Oct 03, 2023
The Rocks Below
Sep 01, 2023
Chasing the Eclipse
Aug 04, 2023
Drainage Reversals on the Colorado Plateau
Jul 07, 2023
Restoring Biocrust
Jun 02, 2023
Roiling Rapids
May 05, 2023
The Art and Science of Conservation
Apr 07, 2023
Beaver and Healthy Riverscapes
Mar 03, 2023
Reconstructing Climates of the Past
Feb 03, 2023
Preserving Ancestral Puebloan Roads
Jan 06, 2023
Sagebrush Ecosystems of the West
Dec 02, 2022
What do Lichen Like?
Oct 28, 2022
Mountain Snow to Desert Flow
Oct 21, 2022
Science on the Range
Oct 07, 2022
Solace in the Desert
Sep 30, 2022
Geography of the Bears Ears
Sep 23, 2022
Where the Sea Used to Be
Sep 16, 2022
Reintroducing the Wolf
Sep 09, 2022
Wildfire Science, Pt. 2
Sep 02, 2022
Wildfire Science, Pt. 1
Aug 26, 2022
Learning about Lichen
Aug 19, 2022
Researching the Rattler
Aug 12, 2022
The DNA of Soils
Aug 05, 2022
Climate Adaptation and Land Management
Jul 29, 2022
Biomass for the Masses
Jul 22, 2022
Lakes and Greenhouse Gases
Jul 15, 2022
Red Cliffs Desert Reserve
Jul 08, 2022
Functioning Fungi
Jul 01, 2022
Restoring Sandbars
Jun 24, 2022
Native Voices on Air
Jun 17, 2022
Protecting Culturally Significant Plants
Jun 10, 2022
Traditional Knowledge and Climate Change
Jun 03, 2022
Traditional Foods in the Four Corners
May 27, 2022
Indigenous Knowledge in Forest Management
May 20, 2022
All About the Bees
May 13, 2022
Considering the Scale of River Management
May 06, 2022
Ecological Restoration
Feb 11, 2022
Wild Horses of the West
Feb 04, 2022
River Bugs
Jan 28, 2022
In Deep with Cretaceous Reptiles
Jan 21, 2022
Ambient Water in the Desert
Jan 14, 2022
Water Sustainability on the Navajo Nation
Jan 07, 2022
Constantly Moving Earth
Dec 31, 2021
Studying the Desert Bighorn
Dec 17, 2021
The Art of Avalanche Forecasting
Dec 10, 2021
Nutrition from a Cultural Standpoint
Dec 03, 2021
Born into these lands and waters
Nov 26, 2021
Impacts of Human Noise on Wildlife
Nov 19, 2021
Climate Change Resiliency within Native Communities
Nov 14, 2021
Living with Environmental Contaminants
Nov 05, 2021
Preserving Rock Art
Oct 29, 2021
Centering Indigenous Knowledge
Oct 22, 2021
Life Distribution in Deep Canyons
Oct 15, 2021
Desert Floods
Oct 08, 2021
Soil and Rock Stability
Oct 01, 2021
FestivalofScience EXTRA - Arches NP GeoTour 2021
Sep 24, 2021
Perspectives from a Hopi Archaeologist
Sep 24, 2021
Outdoor Ethics
Sep 17, 2021
Taming Tamarisk
Sep 10, 2021
Monsoons and Flash Flooding
Sep 03, 2021
Indian Creek Climbing Sustainability, Pt. 2
Aug 27, 2021
Indian Creek Climbing Sustainabilty Pt. 1
Aug 20, 2021
Lake Powell Food Chain
Aug 13, 2021
What's up with Lizards?
Aug 06, 2021
Leave No Waste
Jul 30, 2021
Does Diversity Matter?
Jul 23, 2021
Soil Mapping
Jul 16, 2021
Dinosaur Utopia
Jul 09, 2021
Dory Life
Jul 02, 2021
Weather in the Arid Southwest
Jun 25, 2021
The Amazing Humpback Chub
Jun 18, 2021
Rocks and Fossils on Ancestral Lands
Jun 11, 2021
Saved by a Song
Jun 04, 2021
Learning the Landscape
May 28, 2021
Out of the Box Thinking for the Colorado River System
May 21, 2021
Pothole Ecosystems
May 14, 2021
Changing the narrative in science & conservation
May 07, 2021
Interacting with a cultural landscape
Apr 30, 2021
Arch Vibrations
Apr 23, 2021
Mitigating Mosquitoes
Apr 16, 2021
Taking Action in the Colorado River Basin
Apr 09, 2021
Don't Bust the Crust
Nov 20, 2020
Why are the Junipers Dying?
Oct 30, 2020
Permian Extinction
Oct 08, 2020
FestivalofScience EXTRA: GeoTour2020
Sep 16, 2020
Heat: The Silent Killer
Aug 05, 2020
Lake Powell 2020
Jun 18, 2020
Speaking Across Knowledges: A conversation about Indigenous ways of Knowing and Western Science
May 08, 2020
Wildfire and Wildlife
Apr 24, 2020
Utah Dinosaurs: Missing links in paleogeography
Mar 13, 2020
Pathways of Exposure: The legacy of uranium mining within the Navajo Nation
Mar 02, 2020
Really Big Water: A look at paleoflood hydrology
Feb 10, 2020
Ways of Knowing: Indigenous Knowledge and Western Science
Jan 10, 2020
Riparian Birds
Nov 22, 2019
The Science Behind Dark Skies and Life
Oct 18, 2019
Dynamic Desert Ecosystems
Sep 13, 2019
Archaeology and Desert Springs
Aug 18, 2019
Paleoecology and Climate Change
Jul 14, 2019
Rivers, Extraction and Science in the Four Corners
Jun 18, 2019
Climbers Relationship with Place
May 19, 2019
Snow Science and the Avalanche Forecast
Apr 15, 2019
The World Dinosaurs Lived In
Mar 24, 2019
Plant resiliency to drought
Mar 09, 2019
Water in Desert Soil
Feb 18, 2019
Keeping Pace with Climate Change
Feb 03, 2019
Reconstructing the Ice Age
Dec 30, 2018
Volcanoes in the four corners
Dec 11, 2018
Preserving the movement of wildlife
Nov 23, 2018
How a river shaped a plateau: understanding erosion & the Colorado River
Nov 10, 2018
The plant chemicals that shape ecosystems
Oct 12, 2018
How the desert changes
Sep 15, 2018
The structure and function of forests
Aug 28, 2018
Where the dinosaurs roamed
Aug 18, 2018
The complexities of pinyon juniper woodlands
Jul 28, 2018
The unseen interactions between plants
Jul 24, 2018
Salvaging the living soil
Jul 10, 2018
Understanding the tamarisk beetle
Jun 29, 2018
The seeds beneath the soil
Jun 08, 2018
Wildfire and moss: the unexpected role of moss in stabilizing soil after fires
Jun 01, 2018
How carbon moves through the desert
May 12, 2018
The shape and processes of rivers & streams
May 07, 2018
Mammals during the time of the dinosaurs
Apr 27, 2018
Using native seeds to restore the desert
Apr 20, 2018
The incredible relationships between pollinators and plants
Apr 13, 2018
Restoring the National Parks of Southeastern Utah
Apr 06, 2018
The regional impacts of climate change
Mar 30, 2018
Bark beetles and their sound
Mar 23, 2018
How water shapes the earth
Mar 16, 2018
Interactions between plants and fungi
Mar 09, 2018
The geologic forces shaping the landscape
Feb 26, 2018
Restoring the skin of the desert
Feb 26, 2018
Interacting with the land: historic and current land uses in the Southwest
Nov 05, 2017
Invading grasses, Moab ecosystems, & large-scale change
Nov 05, 2017
Privacy in the ancestral world: exploring social structure on the Plateau
Oct 05, 2017
Plants and past humans
Aug 18, 2017
Thinking about landscapes at a large scale: new thoughts on species conservation
Aug 11, 2017
Volcanoes in the four corners Part II
Jun 12, 2017
How grazing and foraging animals influence the desert
May 25, 2017