Featured on the July 2nd, 2026 edition of ARIZONA SPOTLIGHT with host Mark McLemore:
- Hear about “Connect 250”, a new StoryCorps initiative, straight from StoryCorps' president and founder Dave Isay.
- What some visitors to the Paul & Alice Baker Center for Public Media have to say about StoryCorps, and our nation’s 250th birthday.
- Visit the Sea of Cortez to meet a biologist and solar sailor who strives to save and photograph local ecosystems.
Tucson resident Paul S. Hamilton, PhD is a field biologist and conservation photographer who has been working on different continents for more than three decades.While his terra firma house is in Tucson, Hamilton also has a seafaring home called Triplefin, a boat that was built in 1987 and renovated to run on solar power.
_Hamilton has lived on Triplefin for years, and uses it to take scientists, photographers, journalists, and other groups to scenic settings in the Sea of Cortez. He's also involved in another group that aims to protect species and ecosystems, while trying to improve the lives of residents in those areas. The Sea of Cortez, also known as the Gulf of California, is home to Arizona's closest maritime beaches such as Puerto Peñasco and Bahía Kino._
- And closer to home, AZPM's Laura Holánszky reports on how the [Reid Park Zoo](https://reidparkzoo.org/} is undertaking a campaign to conserve 1 million gallons of water
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