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Valentine Camp

Thinning Valentine Camp’s forest to save it

September 15, 2020 By Kathleen Wong

forest thinning

To step into Valentine Camp is to enter the forest from a childhood fairy tale. Dense stands of Jeffrey pine, red fir, and lodgepole pine line its access road and cloak slopes that tilt east toward the Sierra Nevada. The trees grow so thick that it is easy to imagine Hansel and Gretel getting lost […]

Confluence: Drawings and Photographs

February 11, 2020 By Kathleen Wong

Todd Gilens

Berkeley artist Todd Gilens made a series of drawings and photographs informed by time spent in the Sierra Nevada with scientists from NRS reserves. He visited Valentine Camp, Sierra Nevada Aquatic Research Laboratory, Yosemite Field Station, and Sagehen Creek Field Station during the 2015-18  field seasons. He’s now assembling this body of work into an […]

California Heartbeat Initiative soars ahead

October 2, 2019 By Kathleen Wong

CHI research

A University of California project to study the availability of water in California’s ecosystems is off to a soaring start. The California Heartbeat Initiative (CHI) uses drones, sap flow meters, and other remote sensing techniques to monitor the water status of plants across large swaths of the landscape. The project aims to interpret water status […]

Major gift to Valentine Eastern Sierra Reserves

June 3, 2019 By Kathleen Wong

Major gift to VESR

Valentine Eastern Sierra Reserves gets $1 million gift to expand support for students, staff and researchers, and to upgrade infrastructure

Doctor drought

February 20, 2019 By Kathleen Wong

Professor Michael Loik stands before his drought shelters on the coastal prairie at Younger Lagoon Reserve

UC Santa Cruz professor Michael Loik tests how plants respond to climate extremes Acute drought is parching Santa Cruz. For the past four years, the coastal prairie of Younger Lagoon Reserve, on the west end of town, has received just over half the rain that normally falls. The situation is so dire it’s likely to […]

The Golden Forest

January 22, 2018 By Kathleen Wong

The Golden Forest

by Julie Cohen, UC Santa Barbara   Situated between the Santa Ynez Mountains and the coastal plain to the north and the unique Northern Channel Islands archipelago to the south, the coastal zone of Southern California near Santa Barbara is especially alluring.   A new children’s book, The Golden Forest (Muddy Boots, 2017), delves into […]

Refuges against rising ocean acidification

June 7, 2017 By Kathleen Wong

Ocean acidification widespread in the California current, but pockets of protection exist By Shelly Leachman, UC Santa Barbara First, the bad news: New data reveals that acidified ocean water is pervasive along the West Coast — and is likely to keep spreading. So what’s the good news? Persistent, less-acidic havens in some regions may be […]

How plants could adapt to changing climate

April 21, 2016 By Kathleen Wong

By Lorena Anderson, UC Merced If you want to understand how plant populations will respond as the climate changes, just examine the plants in different locations. That’s one of the conclusions drawn by UC Merced School of Natural Sciences Professor Jason Sexton in a new American Journal of Botany issue exploring the evolution of plants. Written by Sexton and graduate student Erin […]

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