The Sandhills of Nebraska

Join us as we explore the beautiful Sandhills of Nebraska! 20,000 square miles of grass covered sand dunes right in the middle of the Great Plains. Special thanks to Doug Hallum with the UNL Conservation and Survey Division and Dean Jacobs from the Valentine Chamber of Commerse for providing us with many great suggestions for filming locations, we had a blast! Thanks to Ted Huscher for putting us in contact with these these folks CREDITS Host - Ali Sealander Writer - RJ Stern Writer / Editor - Zach Clowdus Music - "Mimicking Your Breathing" by Harper Rey via epidemicsound.com IMAGES Great Sand Dunes NP - https://www.nps.gov/grsa/index.htm Saharan Dust - https://www.nesdis.noaa.gov/news/the-... Dallas Haza - Ryan Michalesko via Dallas Morning News Quartz - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Qu... Feldspar - https://sites.pitt.edu/~cejones/GeoIm... Biotite - https://geology.com/minerals/biotite.... North America (Pleistocene) - by Dr. Ron Blakey, Paleogeography and Geologic History of North America - http://www.virginiaplaces.org/geology... U.S. precipitation map - https://gisgeography.com/us-precipita... Ogallala aquifer - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... Reconstructed Temperature Graph - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... Blowout Penstemon flower - http://magazine.outdoornebraska.gov/2... Penstemon extant modified from - https://ecos.fws.gov/ecp/species/6172 References Ahlbrandt, Thomas S., et al. “Geologic and Paleoecologic Studies of the Nebraska Sand Hills.” Professional Paper, 1980, https://doi.org/10.3133/pp1120ac. Johnson, William C, et al. “4.2.2.2.” Inland Dunes of North America, SPRINGER NATURE, S.l., 2021, p. 135. Loope, David B, and James Swinehart. “Thinking Like a Dune Field: Geologic History in the Nebraska Sand Hills.” Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences, 2000. Miao, Xiaodong, et al. “A 10,000 Year Record of Dune Activity, Dust Storms, and Severe Drought in the Central Great Plains.” Geology, vol. 35, no. 2, 2007, p. 119, https://doi.org/10.1130/g23133a.1. “Nebraska’s Wetland Family.” UNL Water, 8 Sept. 2015, water.unl.edu/wetlands/newetlandfamily. Schmeisser McKean, Rebecca L, et al. “Temporal and Spatial Variability in Dune Reactivation across the Nebraska Sand Hills, USA.” The Holocene, vol. 25, no. 3, 2014, pp. 523–535, https://doi.org/10.1177/0959683614561889. Dean, Jeffrey S. "The Medieval Warm Period on the Southern Colorado Plateau" Climatic Change, no. 23, 1994, pp. 225-241 Heidel, Bonnie "Survey of Penstomon haydenii (Blowout Penstemon) in Wyoming" Prepared for the Bureau of Land Management, 2005 Subbendieck, James, et al. "Blowouts in the Nebraska Sandhills: The Habitat of Penstemon haydenii." Proceedings of the North American Prairie Conferences. 3. 1989 Kok, Jasper, et al. "The physics of wind-blown sand and dust" Reports on Progress in Physics, no 75, 2012, doi:10.1088/0034-4885/75/10/106901 LaGrange, Ted, "Guide to Nebraska's Wetlands and Their Conservation Needs: Second Edition, 2005" Nebraska Game and Parks Commision Publications, 37. 2005 Schmieder, Jens, et al. "Holocene variability in hydrology, vegetation, fire, and eolian activity in the Nebraska Sand Hills, USA." Papers in Earth and Atmospheric Sciences. 376. 2013. https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/geosci... Sand Hills, Nebraska - EarthObservatory.nasa.gov https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/ima... Nebraska's Wetlands https://water.unl.edu/wetlands/newetl... Blowout penstemon - OutdoorNebraska.gov https://outdoornebraska.gov/learn/neb...