After this week's epic Northern Lights display, we wonder: Why are cameras so much better at picking up the colors than we are? What causes the colors of the aurora?
Co-hosts Heidi Holtan (director of content and public affairs, admirable unscientific question asker) and Charlie Mitchell (phenology coordinator, easily sidetracked doofus) discuss living-day dinosaurs, whether bugs think humans are just big bugs, and why the Northern Lights are so darn cool.
In addition, we hear from Josh Leonard from the Belwin Conservancy, "Tornado Bob" Conzemius, retired DNR non-game biologist Pam Perry, student phenologists at the North Shore Community School, and KAXE's own phenomenal phenologist John Latimer.
Attributions
- NASA information on auroras
- Wild River State Park soundscape: Jonathon Jongsma, XC178043. Accessible at www.xeno-canto.org/178043.
- Sandhill Crane: Jonathon Jongsma, XC111490. Accessible at www.xeno-canto.org/111490.
- Our student report this week was from North Shore Community School near Duluth.
- The Pam Perry interview, Big Weather Report, John Latimer's Phenology Report and Phenology Talkbacks all originally aired on KAXE/KBXE.
Love the podcast? Think it's unfair that cameras can see the aurora better than we can? Let us know! Email us your thoughts (and aurora pics) at seasonwatch@kaxe.org.
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