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Winter 1999
Vol. 52:1
Tens of miles from shore, a harbor seal takes
refuge in drifting kelp.
Photograph by
Richard Herrmann.
Departments
Life on the Edge
New Moons, Blue Moons
•Keith K. Howell
Habitats
Napa River's New Freedom
•Gordy Slack
Horizons
Shades of Redwood
Glow-in-the-Ground Fossils
•Blake Edgar
A
Letter from the Field
Research in Cuba's Forbidden Seas
•John E. McCosker
Counterpoints
in Science
A Word from Klasies River
•Jerold M. Lowenstein
Reviews
California coastal guides
Editors' Recommendations
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Features
Mirrors, Magic, and
Murres
On a small rock south of San Francisco, biologists serenade murres
with loudspeakers and decoys to entice them back to their historical rookery.
•Laura Helmuth
The
Little Spacecraft That Could
Lunar Prospector, made from off-the-shelf parts, charts undiscovered
resources and breathes new life into the Moon research.
•Sally Stephens
At Home in the
Natural World
Naturalist's Almanac
What to See This Winter
•Michael A. Roberts
Skyguide
Blue Moons
•Bing F. Quock
Not available
online:
Poached Eggs
For fifty years, much of San Francisco's protein came from the Farallon
Islands, where eggers fought lethal wars to harvest nearly one million
eggs a year from hapless murres.
•Aleta Brown
Oases in the Open Sea
When their holdfasts break, giant kelp off California's coast become
drifting ecosystems, home to ever-changing assemblages of seaweed and
sea creatures.
•Richard Herrmann
Swimming in Data
Thanks to satellite telemetry, marine mammal researchers are suddenly
deluged in at-sea data. How to sort the signals from the noise.
•Pam Squyres
Here at the Academy
Unearthing Snakes and Frogs in National Forests
•Lisa Owens-Viani
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