Oakland Museum’s new science gallery opens May 31
May 21, 2013 by Dan Rademacher
On May 31, the Oakland Museum will open its overhauled science gallery, the world’s largest museum exhibit focused on California’s habitats and wildlife.
About Dan Rademacher
Dan joined Bay Nature in 2004. A onetime professional cabinetmaker, he considers himself a lifelong maker of things and teller of stories. Dan has been working at the intersection of journalism and technology since, at age 16, he began learning reporting, page layout, and database design. His enduring interest in environmental issues crystallized into a career path in 1998 when he assisted former U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Hass in a cross-disciplinary nature writing and ecology course at UC Berkeley, from which Dan received a Masters in English literature. In 1999, he became Associate Editor of Terrain, the erstwhile quarterly magazine of Berkeley's Ecology Center. In addition to editing and art-directing Bay Nature magazine, he is also Bay Nature’s chief technology strategist, fixer of broken things, and designer of databases and fancy spreadsheets. And he has even been known to leave the office and actually hike outdoors.
Contributions
Lake Merced Birds: A Lone Wrentit
May 14, 2013 by Dan Rademacher
Every so often I see a note from a local birder or amateur botanist that reminds me that there’s a …
Who builds those stick houses, anyway? Woodrats!
May 10, 2013 by Dan Rademacher
Stewart Gilbert of San Rafael writes to ask: “Who makes these homes built out of sticks? They’re very common at …
Green Gulch Farm Stroll
May 07, 2013 by Dan Rademacher
Next time you decide to hit the beach, make it Muir Beach and thorw in a farm tour and family-friendly …
Briones Loop, West Side
May 01, 2013 by Dan Rademacher
This is a nice, relatively easy hike through typical Contra Costa County grasslands and oak woodlands, with decent wildflowers in …
Surge of pine siskins means dead birds, but also new neighbors
April 30, 2013 by Dan Rademacher
We’ve been hearing a lot about dead pine siskins all over the country. Turns out it’s natural, and it might mean more siskins in more places for a while.
Dinosaur eggs on Point Reyes Estero Trail?
March 29, 2013 by Dan Rademacher
Tim Hastings wrote to us wondering about “many large round, almost ‘dinosaur-egg’ like rocks dotting the muddy sands” when he …
Satellites to the rescue for Clear Lake algae problems?
March 19, 2013 by Dan Rademacher
Clear Lake algae problems persist, but a new effort aims to use satellite imagery to track pollution and find solutions.
What’s the California newt’s lifespan?
March 13, 2013 by Dan Rademacher
What’s a California newt’s lifespan? Surprisingly long for captive newts, and wild newts’ potent poison likely helps them live longer than other amphibians.
Are deer twins common?
March 03, 2013 by Dan Rademacher
Are deer twins common? Turns out, yes, even though any individual twin fawn is less likely to survive than its singleton cousins. What gives, nature?
