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PODCAST
Feature Interview with Karen Martin, American Shoreline Podcast Network, on the Huntington Beach Oil Spill and its effects on the nearshore environment, 2021. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-huntington-beach-oil-spill-causes-cleanup-and-impacts/id1434886389?i=1000538156017

RADIO 
"Beach Ecology" (May 20, 2020)
An interview about grunion with Karen L. Martin on BYU's "Constant Wonder," followed by Doug Marcy, NOAA Coastal Hazards Specialist. 

"Mooney Goes Wild Tonight: Going For Grunion"

From "RTE Radio 1", Irish radio, 2017 with Derek Mooney

OP-ED
The World Is Losing Its Sandy Beaches. Here's What We Can Do to Save Them, 2024, Op-Ed by Karen Martin, RealClear Science, Nov. 13, 2024 https://www.realclearscience.com/articles/2024/11/13/the_world_is_losing_its_sandy_beaches_heres_what_we_can_do_to_save_them_1071833.html

Videos and images

Grunion are part of the food web, by K Martin
Grunion predators waiting for the run to start. By Dan Harding.
Group hug, by Donna Stern
Young Sea Lion hunting during a grunion run, by Andrea LaFace.
Splashy grunion, by Julianne Steers
Female grunion in center surrounded by suitors. By Arnold Liu.
Grunion Greeter Iris in Los Angeles County, by Laura Merwin.
Original surfer, by Steve Howard
Keaton shows proper bare-hand fishing technique, by K Martin
This shovel-nose guitar fish chased grunion completely out of water onto shore during a run. By Emily Jones.
Grunion eggs incubate out of water buried in beach sand. By Carlos Carreon.
Sandy grunion, by Julianne Steers

​Emily, 5 years old, explains (VERY WELL) how the grunion run works. Video by Michael Murrie, vocals sent by J. McLain.

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Nona the Naturalist watches the grunion run at Doheny State Beach in June, 2022
​Closeup view of grunion spawning by Beth Tramontina, 2016.
​Following is a video featuring our own Melissa Studer on the BBC.
This video by Tara Speer Blank shows grunion eggs that have been agitated in seawater to trigger hatching. Within one minute, the action starts. Taken through a dissecting microscope, this video shows two eggs hatching in real time, and a third example slowed down to show the movements of the embryo as it weakens the egg envelope and then breaks free, tail first, to become a free-swimming larva. (No sound on video)

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