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The Kids Talk Radio California Channel Island's STEAM Plus Project
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Exploring the California Channel Islands
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Exploring the hills and valleys
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Exploring the island
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Rare plants
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The Dry Season
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Observing rare plants, Kids Talk Radio Science
Coastal Explorations
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Exploring the Sea Cavers
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How were the Channel Islands formed?
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Kids Talk Radio Geology Studies
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Island Sea Caves Kids Talk Radio Science
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Exploring Sea Caves Kids Talk Radio Science
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Bob Barboza exploring caves and rock samples
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Exploinrg the island waters
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Exploring along the rocky beach
Kids Talk Radio Science: Oceanography
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Gathering our food from the sea
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How can we feed the world from the sea?
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Science and the Fishing Industry
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California History
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Open Sea Observations
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Exploring the Channel Islands
Channel Islands of California
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You can see a small fox in this photo.
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Welcome to Santa Cruz Island. We climbed to the top for this view.
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The California Channel Islands
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Exploring the California Channel Islands with Kids Talk Radio Science
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Docking you boat on this island can be challenging.
 

Kids Talk Radio Science recently explored the Channel Islands.  We were on an exploratory mission to compare and contrast the uninhabited island of Santa Luzia, Cape Verde with the US Santa Cruz Island.   We will post our findings in an exit report in July, 2013.

 

The Channel Islands of California are a chain of eight islands located in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Southern California along the Santa Barbara Channel in the United States of America. Five of the islands are part of the Channel Islands National Park.

 

The eight islands are split among the jurisdictions of three separate California counties: Santa Barbara County (four), Ventura County (two), and Los Angeles County (two). The islands are divided into two groups—the Northern Channel Islands and the Southern Channel Islands. The four Northern Islands used to be a single landmass known as Santa Rosae.

The archipelago extends for 160 miles (257.51 kilometers) between San Miguel Island in the north and San Clemente Island in the south. Together, the islands’ land area totals 221,331 acres (89,569 ha), or about 346 square miles (900 km2).

Five of the islands (San Miguel, Santa Rosa, Santa Cruz, Anacapa, and Santa Barbara) were made into the Channel Islands National Park in 1980. The Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary encompasses the waters six nautical miles (11 kilometers) off Anacapa, Santa Cruz, San Miguel and Santa Barbara islands.

Santa Catalina Island is the only one of the eight islands with a significant permanent civilian settlement—the resort city of Avalon, California, and the unincorporated town of Two Harbors.

Natural seepage of oil occurs at several places in the Santa Barbara Channel.[1] Tar balls or pieces of tar in small numbers are found in the kelp and on the beaches. Native Americans used naturally occurring tar, bitumen, for a variety of purposes which include roofing, waterproofing, paving and some ceremonial purposes.[2]

The Channel Islands at low elevations are virtually frost-free and constitute one of the few such areas in the 48 contiguous US states. It snows only rarely, on higher mountain peaks.


 

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