SCIENCE

The Farallon Islands California's Galapagos

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1
Episode
37
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Lying 28 miles off the coast of San Francisco, the jagged silhouette of the Farallon Islands disrupts the clean line of the horizon. This foreboding knot of rocks sits amid one of the most productive marine food webs on the planet and hosts the largest seabird breeding colony in the continental United States. Learn what life is like on the islands and meet the scientists who call this incredibly wild place home. For hundreds of years, scientists have been poaching design ideas from structures in nature. Meet biologists and engineers who are working together to design a broad range of new products, such as life-saving milli-robots modeled on the way cockroaches run and adhesives based on the amazing design of a gecko’s foot. In order to document the rich colors of the south San Francisco Bay's salt ponds, architect/photographer Cris Benton places his camera in a very unique position: suspended from a kite.

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