Bay Nature Staff Picks of 2024
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Tag: technology
Just in Time for Algae Season, A New Satellite Map Offers Glimpses of Bay Blooms
No one agency is tasked with protecting us from marine algal blooms. So here’s a map worth checking before you go out on the waters of San Francisco Bay.
Keeping Up With the Flyers: Wildlife Tracking Breakthroughs
A fast-growing network of towers is making it way easier and cheaper for researchers to spy on animals worldwide.
Trees Capture Fog — So Why Can’t We?
Dozens of experimental fogcatchers stand poised like sentinels across coastal cliffs and fields along the Central Coast, awaiting the marine layer to enshroud them.
California’s Drought, As Measured From the Sky
Up until recently, there were limited and fairly antiquated options on how to measure California's snowpack.
Top 10 Bay Area nature apps
If you plan on getting outdoors this summer, you'll probably be bringing your smart phone with you. Forgo the hefty guidebooks and consider tapping into some of the great mobile...
Bird watching — there’s an app for that!
It used to be that you needed guidebooks and an experienced friend to get up to speed on identifying a flash of wing through the trees. These days, however, newbie...
