This documentary, produced for UCTV by UC ANR (Agriculture and Natural Resources) Communications Services, introduced viewers to the wide range of research going on at this NRS site, which is located adjacent to the UC Santa Barbara campus. The program features several ongoing, reserve-based research efforts:
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* An innovative program involving 50 volunteers from the Audubon Society to re-establish a snowy plover breeding ground.
* A multidisciplinary look at recruitment and reproduction of intertidal animals.
* A graduate student using radio frequencies to track offshore currents.
* A USGS researcher who studies the role that parasites play in a coastal lagoon.
Jim O’Brien, of ANR Communications Services, co-produced the program with Jerry Booth of the NRS Systemwide Office. O’Brien served as videographer and editor, while Booth wrote the script and conducted the on-camera interviews. Other contributors from ANR Communications Services include Producer Ray Lucas, who handled the sound, and Director of Video Production Michael Poe, who provided the narration.
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UCTV was launched in 2000 to provide the public with informational, educational and enrichment programming that draws upon the vast intellectual, scientific and creative talents of the University of California. Its programs reach over 4 million cable subscribers in California, and almost 15 million households nationwide via satellite on EchoStar DISH Network, Nationwide Channel 9412. UCTV programs are also available twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week via the web.
WEB LINKS:
The Coal Oil Point program can be seen online via UCTV Video On-Demand
Information about the Telly Awards
Information about UC’s ANR Communications Services
Information about UCTV
NRS contact Jerry Booth
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