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Ten Years of Progress: Boston Harbor Islands National Park
June 26, 2006
Bruce Jacobson superintendent, Boston Harbor Islands
Tom Powers president, Boston Harbor Alliance

Bruce Jacobson and Tom Powers talk about their work on the Boston Harbor Islands National Park Area, a unit of the National Park System that includes 34 islands within the 50-square miles of Boston Harbor.

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Tracking the Great White Shark
Greg Skomal
00:56:37
Dr. Greg Skomal discusses the process of tagging several great whites off of Chatham in the summer of 2009 in order to track their migratory patterns. Several months later those tags returned valuable information. To Dr.
Lobsters and Their Kids on the Move in the Gulf of Maine
Jason Goldstein
00:56:24
Do lobsters migrate like many birds and whales? Studies of egg-bearing lobsters indicate seasonal movement patterns that may serve to expose eggs to optimal water temperatures over their 9-to-12 month incubation period.
Kevin Kelly: What Technology Wants
Kevin Kelly
00:57:27
In a brand-new view of technology, co-founder of Wired magazine Kevin Kelly suggests that it is not just a jumble of wires and metal. He argues that technology is actually a living, evolving organism that has its own unconscious needs and tendencies.
Coral Reefs, Hermit Crabs, and Tube Worms (Part 2)
Randi Rotjan
00:02:04
Randi Rotjan, a coral ecologist at the New England Aquarium in Boston, shares stories from her time spent studying coral reefs.
Eco Innovations: Small Sparks, Big Impact
Shakeel Avadhany
01:21:00
This Carnegie Council panel asks: How do sustainable innovations make it to market? Three very different inventors talk about their creative process, how their inventions have had a social impact, and what a more sustainable society might look like.
Ken Burns on National Parks
Ken Burns
00:58:04
Ken Burns and Dayton Duncan discuss their six-part PBS documentary series The National Parks: America's Best Idea.

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