Blue Dot
Episodes
Best of Blue Dot: SETI Institute: it's role in the Disney/Pixar animated film Elio and The Fermi Paradox
27 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Host Dave Schlom is joined by two guests from the SETI Institute in Mountain View, California, for a fun and thought-provoking program. Simon Steel, D...
Blue Dot: Tribute to an American hero: NASA astronaut Jim Lovell
19 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Host Dave Schlom is joined by some very special guests to celebrate the life of one of NASA's greatest astronauts, James A. Lovell Jr.
Best of Blue Dot: California's landscapes: human and natural history with artist and author Obi Kaufmann
05 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Artist and writer Obi Kaufmann joins host Dave Schlom to discuss his documentation of California's wild and scenic places.
Best of Blue Dot: Bill Nelson: Congressman, astronaut and NASA Director
28 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Bill Nelson joins host Dave Schlom for a special conversation about his life in public service at NASA. Nelson served representing the people of his h...
Blue Dot: Reimagining Ag: the California State University Chico Center for Regenerative Agriculture
21 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Blue Dot goes down on the farm by visiting with folks from California State University, Chico's Center for Regenerative Agriculture and Resilient Syst...
Blue Dot: California's landscapes: human and natural history with artist and author Obi Kaufmann
14 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Artist and writer Obi Kaufmann joins host Dave Schlom to discuss his documentation of California's wild and scenic places.
Best of Blue Dot: Exploring California's Native Trees with Matt Ritter and Michael Kauffmann
07 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Host Dave Schlom is joined by Backcountry Press Publisher Michael Kauffmann along with Cal Poly San Luis Obispo botany professor Matt Ritter. Both com...
Blue Dot: New MacArthur Fellow Kareem El-Badry from Caltech on black holes, binary and hypervelocity stars
31 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Host Dave Schlom visits with brand new MacArthur Fellowship award winner Kareem El-Badry, an astrophysicist at the California Institute of Technology ...
Best of Blue Dot: Celebrating three years of astronomy with the James Webb Space Telescope
24 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Blue Dot marks three years of operation of the magnificent James Webb Space Telescope. NASA Webb Project Manager Mike Davis joins host Dave Schlom for...
Blue Dot: Understanding the earthquake and tsunami hazards of California's North Coast with Lori Dengler
17 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Geology Professor Emeritus Lori Dengler joins host Dave Schlom from Cal Poly Humboldt for an in-depth look at the tectonic forces that have shaped Cal...
Blue Dot: The anatomy of a disaster: inside the Titan submersible implosion
10 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Gordon Telepun joins host Dave Schlom to discuss the Titan submersible implosion that killed five people, including Ocean Gate CEO and pilot Stockton ...
Blue Dot: SETI Institute: it's role in the Disney/Pixar animated film Elio and The Fermi Paradox
03 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Host Dave Schlom is joined by two guests from the SETI Institute in Mountain View, California, for a fun and thought-provoking program. Simon Steel, D...
Best of Blue Dot: Restoring an ancient and important salmon habitat: Big Chico Creek in Northern California
28 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Host Dave Schlom and Producer Matt Fidler go out in the field and in the studio to learn about the story of a major restoration on Big Chico Creek in ...
Blue Dot: Bill Nelson: Congressman, astronaut and NASA Director
19 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Bill Nelson joins host Dave Schlom for a special conversation about his life in public service at NASA. Nelson served representing the people of his h...
Blue Dot: Permaculture; A Permanent Culture for People and all the inhabitants of the Planet
12 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Host Dave Schlom is joined by Producer Matt Fidler for a special look at the world of permaculture. If you are like Dave and have never heard of perma...
Blue Dot: The art and science of fly fishing with Hall of Famer Mike Mercer
05 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Host Dave Schlom gets to delve into his favorite pastime, fly fishing, with two of his heroes -- Mike Mercer and Bryan Quick from The Fly Shop in Redd...
Blue Dot: The Roosevelt brothers quest to find the Giant Panda: a conversation with author Nathalia Holt
29 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Host Dave Schlom visits with one of his favorite authors, Nathalia Holt, to talk about her new book The Beast in the Clouds: The Roosevelt Brothers De...
Best of Blue Dot: Protecting invertebrate pollinators and endangered species with the Xerces Society
22 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Executive Director Scott Black joins host Dave Schlom for a brief history and overview of the Xerces Society.
Blue Dot: Going nuclear? A conversation about atomic power with British scientist and author Tim Gregory
15 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Host Dave Schlom visits with Tim Gregory, a senior nuclear chemist at the United Kingdom National Nuclear Laboratory at Sellafield, Cumbria. Gregory i...
Blue Dot: On the frontiers of philosophy and physics: a conversation with Caltech's Chip Sebens
08 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Host Dave Schlom is joined by California Institute of Technology Philosophy Professor Chip Sebens for an engaging look at how philosophical thought an...
Best of Blue Dot: Ocean science at UC San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography
01 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Host Dave Schlom is joined by guests from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of San Diego to profile the ocean science being do...
Best of Blue Dot: The challenge of California's growing wolf population
25 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Host Dave Schlom is joined by two University of California at Davis researchers and the state's gray wolf coordinator to learn more about how Californ...
Blue Dot: Climate change through Earth history: UC Davis paleoclimatologist Isabel Montañez
18 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Host Dave Schlom visits with Isabel Montañez, Distinguished Professor in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at UC Davis.
Best of Blue Dot: New Sáttítla Highlands National Monument overview with Sam Davidson and Brandy McDaniels
11 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Host Dave Schlom is joined by Sam Davidson from Trout Unlimited and Brandy McDaniels from the Pit River Nation for an in-depth look at the newly desig...