Blue Dot
Fridays at 10 a.m. and Sundays at 3 p.m.
Blue Dot, named after Carl Sagan's famous speech about our place in the universe, features interviews with guests from all over the regional, national and worldwide scientific communities. Host Dave Schlom leads discussions about the issues science is helping us address with experts who shed light on climate change, space exploration, astronomy, technology and much more. Dave asks us to remember: from deep space, we all live on a pale, blue dot.
Latest Episodes
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Host Dave Schlom visits with recently retired TV meteorologist Bill Martin. Bill grew up in Paradise, Calif., and went on to a legendary, Emmy winning career as a television meteorologist on KTVU Channel 2 in Oakland, Calif. -
Host Dave Schlom visits with UK-based author Jules Howard to discuss his book, Infinite Life: The Revolutionary Story of Eggs, Evolution, and Life on Earth. -
British journalist Jennifer Lucy Allan joins Blue Dot host Dave Schlom to discuss her new book, Clay: A Human History. -
Host Dave Schlom visits with nature and wildlife writer Sy Montgomery, whose Soul of An Octopus was a National Book Award finalist, about her latest work, What The Chicken Knows: A New Appreciation of the World's Most Familiar Bird. -
Host Dave Schlom is joined by guests from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of San Diego to profile the ocean science being done at one of the world's most important and historic places to study our blue planet. -
Host Dave Schlom is joined by Sam Davidson from Trout Unlimited and Brandy McDaniels from the Pit River Nation for an in-depth look at the newly designated Sáttítla Highlands National Monument. -
Blue Dot continues its series of profiles for the United States Geological Survey's volcano observatories with a visit to the granddaddy of them all -- the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory (HVO) on the big island of Hawaii. -
Host Dave Schlom is joined by NASA planetary scientist Kevin Hand for a fascinating, in-depth (pun perhaps intended) look at the search for life in the oceans of alien worlds like Jupiter's moon Europa and the Saturnian satellite Enceladus. -
Host Dave Schlom is joined by Zeke Spooner, a Ph.D student at the UC Davis Bodega Marine Laboratory, to discuss microplastics. -
Host Dave Schlom is joined by two researchers who have connections to UC Davis's Bodega Marine Laboratory on the Northern California coast.
