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Field research, UC mentors inspire career in marine biology

September 27, 2019 By Kathleen Wong

by Brenda Ortiz, UC Merced Lauren Schiebelhut credits the support and opportunities afforded to her at UC with opening the door to her career in marine research. Schiebelhut — a first-generation transfer student from Fresno — earned a bachelor’s degree in biological sciences from UC Merced in May 2009 but was uncertain about her future. […]

Role of honey bees in ecosystem pollination

January 16, 2018 By Kathleen Wong

honey bee pollination

by Mario Aguilera, UC San Diego An unprecedented study integrating data from around the globe has shown that honey bees are the world’s most important single species of pollinator in natural ecosystems and a key contributor to natural ecosystem functions. The first quantitative analysis of its kind, led by biologists at the University of California […]

Building respect for science

June 13, 2017 By Kathleen Wong

Q&A with Heather Henter, UC San Diego Natural Reserve System By Emily Loui and Mario Aguilera Tell us about the UC Natural Reserve System and your role at UC San Diego. The UC Natural Reserve System (NRS) is a network of 39 (soon to be 40) largely undisturbed properties across the state, set aside to […]

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, […]

Barcoding bugs for biodiversity

December 15, 2014 By Kathleen Wong

Biology students build databases on reserve organisms by Paul K. Mueller, UC San Diego News Center If, when strolling through the coastal sage atop the Scripps Coastal Reserve just west of campus, you come across students peering closely into the foliage, consider yourself fortunate to witness some very basic science – and very important biology […]

2014 Arts2NRS Winners

July 28, 2014 By Kathleen Wong

Six artists-in-residence will be working at the UC Natural Reserve System this summer thanks to the 2014 Arts2NRS program. Offered for the first time this year by the NRS and the UC Institute for Research in the Arts (UCIRA), the program supports selected UC-affiliated artists working at some of the NRS’s 39 reserves. The Arts2NRS call […]

Paper Published on Mediterranean Exchange

January 29, 2014 By Kathleen Wong

In 2011, the NRS awarded a $5,000 Mediterranean Reserve Managers International Cooperative Fellowship to Fiorenza Micheli, a Stanford University professor of biology. Micheli planned to use the funds to develop science-based conservation measures for a Tyrrenian Sea marine sanctuary and a proposed marine sanctuary in the Adriatic Sea. With the grant, Micheli invited her collaborators […]

Lands of Two Seasons

March 13, 2013 By Kathleen Wong

Great weather, abundant harvests, and some of the world’s most cosmopolitan cities make up what are known as Mediterranean-climate ecosystems. But the landscapes that house Rome, Perth, San Francisco, and Cape Town  are also  some of the world’s most critical biodiversity hotspots. Their tremendous biological diversity, second only to tropical rainforests, faces common threats such […]

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