Visit any waterway around Moab, and you’re likely to stumble upon tamarisk, an invasive, feathery-looking shrub that now dominates many riverbanks on the Colorado Plateau. This week, Science Moab speaks with local resident…
The Moab Festival of Science returns this year for a celebration and showcase of local science based on the Colorado Plateau. The five-day festival will feature multiple speakers, hikes, and activities, with a…
You can call her Dr. Kristina Young, after the founder of local nonprofit Science Moab completed her graduate program and defended her thesis last month. “It feels so great,” she said. Young focused…
When she was 5 years old and visiting an aquarium, world-renowned desert ecologist and Moab local Dr. Jayne Belnap announced she wanted to be a marine biologist. She didn’t just want to be,…
This week, Science Moab speaks with a scientist whose head is in the clouds: Tony Merriman, the warning coordination meteorologist for the National Weather Service in Flagstaff, Arizona. We cover the science behind…
Though Western science prizes objectivity and neutrality, the scientific field itself is often anything but, having grown from colonialist and racist narratives. This week, we speak with Sergio Avila, a coordinator for the…
Are you the friend that everyone “shushes” at the movie theater as you call out plot holes and impossibilities in the story line? At Science Moab’s “Science on Screen” series, a panel of…
