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Learning to swim, elephant seal style

February 11, 2019 By Kathleen Wong

Elephant seals were born to swim, and scientists have the data to show it. For the first time, researchers at the University of California have tracked the diving behavior of northern elephant seal pups on their inaugural journeys into the open ocean. Like videos of a toddler’s baby steps, the recordings show the 300-pound youngsters […]

Reviving field research with living laboratories and outdoor education

February 4, 2019 By Kathleen Wong

reviving field research

By Lily Dayton for UC Santa Cruz In the spring of 1948, UCLA graduate student Ken Norris was eager to return to his field research site in the Coachella Valley, where he’d spent previous seasons crouched in the sand dunes, observing the desert iguanas that scurried beneath the Dicoria bushes. When he arrived at his research plot, […]

Disease caused catastrophic sea star declines

March 22, 2018 By Kathleen Wong

by Julie Cohen, UC Santa Barbara Five years ago, a mysterious disease began crippling sea star populations along the West Coast. Many sea star species died in record-breaking numbers over a short period of time, and a keystone known as the ochre sea star (Pisaster ochraceus) was among the hardest hit. The outbreak extended from […]

Tracking data reveals common patterns in marine animal travels

March 1, 2018 By Kathleen Wong

marine animal movements

by Tim Stephens, UC Santa Cruz The movements of marine mammals and other large animals that spend their lives in the ocean were largely unknown prior to the development of sophisticated tracking devices researchers could deploy on animals in the wild. Insights gained from this technology have revealed unexpected behaviors and migratory patterns in marine […]

UCSC Natural Reserves director appointed to endowed chair

September 15, 2016 By Kathleen Wong

by Tim Stephens, UC Santa Cruz News Office UC Santa Cruz has appointed Gage Dayton to the Wilton W. Webster Jr. Presidential Chair for the UC Santa Cruz Natural Reserves. The endowed chair was established in 2015 with a $500,000 gift from the Helen and Will Webster Foundation and matching funds from the UC Regents. […]

NRS on Open Road TV

July 19, 2016 By Kathleen Wong

The scenic and scientific glories of the NRS will grace TV airwaves next Sunday, July 24, on an episode of Open Road with Doug McConnell. The longtime Bay Area television host takes viewers on journeys to explore the natural, historical and cultural treasures of the Bay Area and California. The show focuses on parks and open spaces protected […]

Seal breath inspires carbon monoxide therapy

May 9, 2016 By Kathleen Wong

By Annie Reisewitz, UC San Diego Most marine mammals were found to exhale carbon monoxide at levels equivalent to or greater than the amount exhaled by a several-packs-a-day smoker. The discovery, by researchers at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego, is part of a broader investigation into how naturally high levels of carbon […]

2015-16 Mathias Grants awarded

January 6, 2016 By Kathleen Wong

Fourteen University of California graduate students have been awarded 2015-16 Mildred E. Mathias Graduate Student Research Grants from the UC Natural Reserve System. The students, from six different UC campuses, each received up to $3,000 to fund field projects at 24 different NRS reserves. Virtually all of this year’s successful proposals will study ecology, evolution, […]

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