Lakeside Chat Highlights

With Rotary Nature Center Friends, Cleveland Elementary students learn about Hank the Pelican. 

Testing Lake Merritt Waters - A Community Water Monitoring Project: An interview with participants Oakland CA Climate Action Corps Fellow Sydney Tamplin and CSUEB student Leander McNeely

Featuring Reed Dillingham, landscape architect for the Measure DD Sailboat House Marsh Project.

Joel Peter, retired Project Manager for Measure DD, and Weed Warriors leader in stewarding the 12th Street Tidal Marsh project.

The geology of the San Francisco Bay area is involved and interesting.  Geologist Andrew Alden points out that there were originally no boulders around Lake Merritt. People brought them in from all over. 

"While everyone sees Lake Merritt as a window to the sea and a haven for birds, geologists also see it a showcase of Ice Age features in the landscape beneath its trees, roads and buildings. Lake Merritt also appears to have a deep connection to the Hayward Fault, which I will explain by waving my arms in the time-honored manner of geologists everywhere."

James Covel presents a historical backstory relating and connecting to his father Paul Covel, species collection, Brighton Cain, Rotary Natural Science Center to taxidermy.

Wildlife biologist Emily Jacinto  McKim collects information in the field from a Chinook salmon carcass (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) in Lake Merritt Oakland. At 02:33, she talks about careers in the wildlife service.