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Your Call: Citizen Scientist: how you can become one and save threatened species

RICHARD MORGANSTEIN

 

We're revisiting our conversation with Mary Ellen Hannibal about her new book Citizen Scientist, Searching for Heroes and Hope in an Age of Extinction.

A staggering number of fauna and flora are dying. From Alaska to Baja, virtually all of the sea starshave been wiped out. In 2015, Cassin's auklet seabirds died in record numbers. In the Sierras an unprecedented 66 million trees are dead. Currently species are going extinct all over the world, “at a rate and magnitude one thousand times faster and bigger than normal,” says Hannibal.

How are citizen scientists monitoring nature to understand and prevent species extinction? 

Guest:

Mary Ellen Hannibal, author of Citizen Scientist, Searching for Heroes and Hope in an Age of Extinction

Web Resources:

Mary Ellen Hannibal at the JCC Tuesday, September 20th

Mary Ellen Hannibal

Citizen Science for CA Naturalists

iNaturalist

Galaxy Zoo

Floating Forests

Golden Gate Raptor Observatory

SpotterPro

eBird

Bird Returns

Rose Aguilar has been the host of Your Call since 2006. She became a regular media roundtable guest in 2001. In 2019, the San Francisco Press Club named Your Call the best public affairs program. In 2017, The Nation named it the most valuable local radio show.