Calling all artists! A three- to four-month summer art residency is being offered at the Yosemite Field Station inside Yosemite National Park. The Scientific Visualization Fellowship (SciViz) is being offered by the University of California Merced, Sierra Nevada Research Institute. SNRI SciViz Fellowships are competitive awards intended to support work that is inspired by nature […]
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Aldo Leopold Documentary Premieres at Berkeley
by UC Berkeley Public Affairs BERKELEY—The life and contributions of wildlife ecology pioneer Aldo Leopold are showcased in a new documentary, Green Fire, which gets its West Coast premiere Monday, Feb. 28, at Berkeley’s Pacific Film Archive theater. The film’s title draws on the epochal moment in Leopold’s life, when the young ranger witnessed the […]
A Sagehen Den for Orphaned Bears
For black bears 8495 and 8496, independence day will always be January 26, 2011. That’s when these two orphaned cubs were released back to the wild at Sagehen Creek Field Station by the California Department of Fish and Game. The site’s protected boundaries gives the cubs a safe place where they can learn to live […]
A Flora for the NRS
It’s a dilemma faced by field researchers everywhere: the need to study a particular species, combined with uncertainty over where it occurs. Anything smaller than a oak tree and less common than a robin can be fiendishly difficult to find. Now those seeking to locate particular plants in the NRS can rejoice. The name of […]
Beetles with NRS Links
Two recently described California beetles have unusually strong ties to NRS reserves. One, was named for Don Canestro, director of the Kenneth S. Norris Rancho Marino Reserve. Entomologists Katie Hopp and Michael Caterino of the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History write in the journal ZooKeys that they named the beetle Cephennium canestroi “in appreciation […]
Sedgwick Gets a Green HQ
With a thumbs up from the building inspector, Sedgwick Reserve has gotten the ok to occupy a brand new headquarters building. The 3,600-square-foot Tipton Meeting House will be multifunctional. In addition to acting as headquarters for the UC Santa Barbara-administered reserve, it will house an education center, seed bank and native plant herbarium, and a […]
2010 Mildred E. Mathias Grant Winners
Fifteen graduate students from eight different University of California campuses have been awarded Mildred E. Mathias Graduate Student Research Grants. Each will receive up to $3,000 to support their field studies. The research projects will be conducted at a dozen different NRS reserves across the state. Mathias grants are awarded to UC graduate students based […]
Tadpole Release to Bolster Endangered Population
Endangered tadpoles were released into a stream near Idyllwild, Calif., today with hopes that the Southern California population of the mountain yellow-legged frog Rana muscosa will thrive again. This is the second release of tadpoles into the same stream at the University of California James San Jacinto Mountains Reserve in Riverside County, which is part […]