Episode 2012
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- Hummingbird Flight
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- Hummingbirds aren’t just fun to watch, they're also on the cutting edge of science. The Oregon Field Guide team heads to the University Portland campus to see how scientists are studying hummingbird flight. Their research is being used in both sports medicine, and robotics. In the future tiny robotic vehicles using characteristics from hummingbird flight could be used for surveillance or in search and rescue operations.
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- Malheur Refuge Carp
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- As the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge turns 100 years old it faces a serious crisis. An invasion by hundreds of thousands of carp threatens this linchpin in the Pacific Flyway. Producer: Vince Patton
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- Return to Mount St. Helens
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- After three years of continuous eruption, Mount St. Helens has gone quiet but has not stopped changing. A new glacier has formed in the mouth of the crater and continues to expand. Scientists from the US Geological Survey have deployed a variety of equipment, allowing them to constantly monitor this dynamic environment. Take a rare trip into the crater to see what scientists continue to learn from the Northwest’s most active volcano.
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- Field Journal Blog
- When Turkey Vultures Go to Dinner
- by Ed Jahn | 10/27/2009
- For a week OPB cameraman Nick and I staked out a prime turkey vulture feeding area in the Oregon High Desert. We really wanted the shot for our story about turkey vultures in Oregon. No luck, but we did get a fun story about being stalked, taunted even, by a bird that expert Jim Anderson [...]
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Craig and Liza Jane Nichols
Boy catches shark
