By Cody Kitaura, UC Davis Staff who oversee the NRS’s Stebbins Cold Canyon Reserve, which has popular hiking trails, are taking a broader approach to keeping visitors safe in the wake of another heat-related rescue over the weekend. A woman who ignored warnings and hiked Stebbins Cold Canyon on a 106-degree afternoon had to be airlifted to […]
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Learning from “little monsters”
By Jeff Mitchell, UC Santa Barbara Caddisflies, crustaceans, mollusks and flatworms. Those are just a few of the curious creatures known as benthic (bottom-dwelling) invertebrates and commonly found in small streams. Fingernail clams and oligochaetes are part of the menagerie, too. Their individual names aside, UC Santa Barbara stream ecologist David Herbst affectionately calls them […]
McLaughlin Reserve art project wins award
by UC Davis Art Studio UC Davis graduate student Jodi Connelly was awarded the 2018 Keister and Allen Art Purchase Prize for an art project featuring the NRS’s McLaughlin Natural Reserve. The prize is given to a UC Davis art studio Master of Fine Arts student annually. The award provides for the purchase of artwork […]
Angelo soils yield potential antibiotics
By Robert Sanders, UC Berkeley Soil, the source of our best antibiotics, can be more thoroughly mined for new drugs and other useful chemicals with the help of metagenomics. In a paper appearing June 13 in the journal Nature, UC Berkeley researchers report sequencing the genomes of every microbe in a teaspoon of soil from the […]
Proposition 68 to benefit the NRS
The UC Natural Reserve System will receive up to $10 million thanks to the passage of California Proposition 68, the Parks, Environment, and Water Bond, June 5. The proposition authorizes the state to issue $4 billion in general obligation bonds to fund state and local parks, natural resources protection, climate adaptation, water quality and supply, […]
UC Natural Reserve System launches fundraising campaign
The University of California Natural Reserve System is launching a fundraising campaign to raise $50 million to continue to protect its natural lands and serve future generations of students and scientists. The 50th Anniversary Capital Campaign will enable the NRS to become financially sustainable, support diversity programs, and supply the infrastructure to support world-class research […]
Stunt Ranch study wins state science fair prize
by David Colgan, Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, UC Los Angeles Like many high schoolers, Tai Michaels has plenty of hobbies. He runs cross country. He’s on the speech and debate team. He struggles with Spanish class at times. His favorite band is The Killers. He’s also doing scientific research to protect Southern California […]
NRS researcher Susan Harrison elected to National Academy of Sciences
By John Stumbos, UC Davis Susan Harrison, a professor in the UC Davis Department of Environmental Science and Policy, has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences, one of the highest honors a scientist can receive. As an ecologist, Harrison studies the processes that shape and maintain plant species diversity at the landscape scale. […]