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  • NOAA Hurricane Hunters – PBS NewsHour (2018)

    NOAA Hurricane Hunters – PBS NewsHour (2018)

    July 31, 2020 at 10:11 pm / Global Patterns, PBS Nature, Video

    Every hurricane season a fleet of “Hurricane Hunter” planes are deployed to “airtruth” the atmospheric conditions of storms long before they make a landfall. A pair of Lockheed P3 Orion turboprop planes nicknamed “Kermit and “Miss Piggy” are among them. Hurricane Hunter missions are crucial to verify and fine-tune satellite measurements. Hurricane Hunters fly directly into the hurricanes and traverse the eye of the storm several times in order to collect atmospheric data equipped with airborne Doppler weather radar. During […]

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  • Observations and Simulations of 2005 Atlantic Hurricane Season by NASA

    Observations and Simulations of 2005 Atlantic Hurricane Season by NASA

    July 25, 2020 at 8:53 pm / Ecological Documentaries, Global Patterns, NatureDocumentaries.org, Video

    Atlantic hurricane season typically starts from June 1 and ends in November 30 in the northern Atlantic. There’s a noticeable peak from late August through September. Each season peak activity occurs around September 10th. The 2005 Atlantic hurricane season had an unusually high cyclone activity surpassing any other season. The number of category 5 hurricanes, and the most intense hurricane ever measured (Hurricane Wilma) by atmospheric pressure was recorded during this time period. The visualization ’27 Storms: Arlene to Zeta’ […]

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  • Life’s Rocky Start – PBS/NOVA (2016)

    Life’s Rocky Start – PBS/NOVA (2016)

    July 12, 2020 at 3:33 pm / Evolution, Global Patterns, Nova Documentaries, Video

    Geology and biological evolution of life influence each other tightly. The title of the documentary “Life’s Rocky Start” reflects this relationship superbly. The six stage transformation of our planet from black, gray, blue, red, white to green is a wonderfully concise way of outlining the geological and biological evolution. More than half of the minerals now incorporated into the upper crust of our planet were produced by living organisms. The movement of continental plates has played a fundamental role in […]

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  • Baby Ground Squirrels Endemic to Anatolia – Hakan Gür (2020)

    Baby Ground Squirrels Endemic to Anatolia – Hakan Gür (2020)

    July 10, 2020 at 8:09 am / Natural history, Short Observations, Video

    They indeed are Meerkat look-alikes. But no they are not Meerkats. Locally they are known as “Gelengi”. Scientifically, they are the Anatolian ground squirrels (Spermophilus xanthophrymnus). In this short observation you can see 5 juveniles that are reported to be approximately 5-6 weeks old hanging out in their nest entrance. A Turkish research team lead by Dr. Hakan Gür who studies their population dynamics recorded the observation on May 8th 2020 near Ankara. Female ground squirrels mate soon after they […]

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  • A Red Shouldered Hawk (Buteo lineatus)

    A Red Shouldered Hawk (Buteo lineatus)

    July 7, 2020 at 4:41 pm / Natural history, NatureDocumentaries.org, Short Observations, Video

    It appears like nothing too exciting is going on in this short observation but in reality there’s a lot happening inside that brain of this bird perfectly chilling with the self confidence of a top predator. The confidence is well earned: they are the descendants of dinosaurs. Looking and seeing are two separate actions. In order to “see” a higher order brain function called “attention” is needed. Scientists define the foundation of attention with two concepts called Context Generalization and […]

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