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A tale of two fishes

March 7, 2022 By Kathleen Wong

northern tidewater goby

By Kathleen Wong, UC Natural Reserve System Deciphering how species interact with other organisms and their environment is the bread and butter of ecologists. For rare or threatened species, understanding which factors enable populations to boom or bust isn’t just academic; the answers can mean the difference between sound population management and species extinction. These […]

Delivering environmental data from the NRS

October 14, 2021 By Kathleen Wong

delivering environmental data

By Kathleen Wong, UC Natural Reserve System Climate is the hottest topic in California these days. As global warming heats up the West, it’s set off a cascade of effects ranging from toxic algal blooms, to tree die-offs, to wildfires of unprecedented size and ferocity. The situation has everyone asking the same question: what is […]

NRS instrumental in biologist’s ascent to grad school

September 23, 2021 By Kathleen Wong

Tim Brown

By Kathleen Wong, UC Natural Reserve System Tim Brown spends his summers on top of the Golden State. While other Californians tan at the beach, hold BBQs, or relax at the pool, he makes a beeline for the high country. Striding across snowfields and rock scree atop eastern California’s highest ranges, this UC Santa Cruz […]

Younger Lagoon to roll out wetland welcome mat for frogs

September 7, 2021 By Kathleen Wong

wetland welcome mat

By Tim Stephens, UC Santa Cruz The California red-legged frog is a threatened species that has been found on the NRS’s Younger Lagoon Reserve in Santa Cruz, but has not been known to breed there successfully. That may soon change with the construction of a small pond designed to enhance an existing seasonal wetland and […]

NRS reserves adapt to coronavirus shutdown

May 19, 2020 By Kathleen Wong

shutdown

By Kathleen Wong, UC Natural Reserve System Spring is prime time around the University of California Natural Reserve System. As winter recedes, and skies dry, scientists and students alike start migrating to the protected lands of the network’s 41 reserves. Field stations bustle with university classes on field trips, who rub shoulders with faculty and […]

2020 Field Science Fellowship Awards

March 25, 2020 By Kathleen Wong

2020 Field Science Fellowship

By Kathleen Wong, UC Natural Reserve System Four UC undergraduates have been awarded the UC Natural Reserve System’s first Field Science Fellowships. The fellowship is intended to enable these highly motivated students to concentrate full time on their field science research for an entire summer with the guidance of a UC faculty mentor. “The fellowship […]

Students power resurvey of NRS reserves

December 6, 2019 By Kathleen Wong

By Kathleen Wong, UC Natural Reserve System While Alex Krohn was completing his PhD, he visited numerous UC Natural Reserves looking for reptiles and amphibians. With dozens of protected wildlands located in a wide variety of ecosystems across the state, NRS reserves are popular places for scientists to collect specimens and do field research. Trying […]

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 […]

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