On a trip to the San Diego area at the end of January, twelve Northern Community Radio members and John Latimer spent part of one day with Dr. Jeff Krooks. Jeff is a marine biologist who led our group on a tour of the Tijuana Estuary on the border of California and Mexico. Jeff is the director of the Tijuana River National Estuarine Research Reserve.
An estuary is a place where a river flows into the ocean or a large body of water, such as where the St. Louis River flows into Lake Superior. There are thousands of estuaries around the world. John asked Jeff to tell us what's special about the natural environment of an estuary...
Credit Tijuana River National Estuarine Research Reserve