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Kachemak Currents
Saturday 9:35 a.m.

Kachemak Currents is a natural history program produced by the Center for Alaska Coastal Studies. The program covers a wide variety of subjects, all sharing the common theme of "the natural history of the Kachemak Bay area."

  • The Great Horned owl is the most common owl in the Homer area, and is resident year-round
  • From Nudibranchs to Anemones, the Homer Harbor is full of life
  • Dandelions are a hearty, ubiquitous, and invasive, species
  • Puffins belong to the Alcid family, and there are two species of puffins in Kachemak Bay, Horned and Tufted
  • Georg Steller was the first to publish descriptions of at least six species found in Alaska, including the extinct Steller's Sea Cow
  • Hoarfrost is frozen water vapor, forming on cold, calm nights, changing from a gas to solid ice, skipping the aqueous state entirely
  • Rock Sandpipers are a small bird that have adapted to withstand Homer Alaska's challenging winter
  • The grouse is in the same bird family as the turkey
  • Cloud-cover, snowfall, elevation, and Kachemak Bay