A Delicate Balance: Salt Ponds, Wetland Restoration, and Wildlife in San Francisco Bay : USGS Public Lecture by USGS research wildlife biologists A. Keith Miles and John Takekawa discusses questions their research seeks to help answer for this wetland restoration
Menlo Park, CA, August 25, 2005.

Sonoran Desert: Fragile Land of Extremes : USGS Public Lecture featuring USGS video, introduced and discussed by Sonoran Desert researchers Todd Esque and Cecil Schwalbe, with updates on current studies (buffelgrass, lowland leopard frog)
Menlo Park, CA, May 26, 2005.

Precipice of Survival--What is the Future of the Southern Sea Otter? : USGS Public Lecture featuring new USGS video, introducted and discussed by sea otter researchers Tim Tinker, Alisha Kage, Julie Stewart, and Michelle Staedler,
Menlo Park, CA, Aug. 26, 2004.

Human Footprints on the Web of Life: Biodiversity and Increasing Population and Development in California : USGS Public Lecture by Robert N. Fisher,
Menlo Park, CA, Aug. 28, 2003.

Healing The Redwood Creek Watershed: USGS Public Lecture by Mary Ann Madej,
Menlo Park, CA, Sept. 26, 2002.

Foraging Ecology and Contaminant Risks of Diving Ducks in the San Francisco Bay
Estuary: USGS Colloquium by John Takekawa, Menlo Park, CA, Sept. 9, 2002.

Why Biodiversity Matters: See and hear what USGS scientist Robert N. Fisher has to say about
the important health role the western fence lizard plays.
(In Spanish/en Español).