Feature: Yosemite hosts new NRS field station guided by a far-sighted vision
Tenth campus UC Merced stewards its first NRS site
California tiger salamanders: the secret life story of a threatened species revealed by NRS researchers
Documenting a fossorial lifestyle
Endangered frog released in native habitat at NRS site
New leadership called to serve at NRS systemwide
Vol. 27, No.2
(Autumn/Winter 2009)
Feature: Envisaging the future of California’s landscapes in a time of rapid climate change
Towers of power — UC professor transforms southern California into a laboratory to study ongoing climate change
In memoriam: Ottie Ashley Motte and Carol Lapham Valentine
Vol. 27, No.1
(Spring/Summer 2009)
Feature: Sensor networks at NRS reserves pioneer new ways to observe Earth
Students learn how to see at reserve-based art course
Parasitologist’s long-term study of small subject brings big rewards
Vol. 26, No.2
(Autumn/Winter 2008)
Feature: We can predict how our weather will behave, but can we ever learn to forecast our water? Keck HydroWatch says, why not?
Why nature at UC?
Vol. 26, No.1
( Spring/Summer 2008 )
Feature: How a “gateway reserve” serves as a research hub and expands scientific horizons beyond NRS boundaries
McLaughlin’s serpentine enables specialization
Quail Ridge wireless network expands research
New NRS reserve: Blue Oak Ranch Reserve
Kids In Nature wins CA environmental award
New campus administrative director at UCSC, new resident manager at Big Creek
Vol. 25, No.2
( Autumn/Winter 2007 )
Feature: Mysteries of the grasslands
Students of geology “rock out” at Sagehen reserve
Successful teen program expands to second NRS site
Urban middle schoolers explore the state’s biodiversity
Campus NRS director at UC Santa Cruz retires to international exploits
Vol. 25, No.1
( Spring/Summer 2007 )
Feature: A parasite’s world — looking into the planet’s most popular lifestyle
Beleaguered marsh on life support still persists as a highly productive natural resource
The ten commandments of salvage for ecological restoration
Pursuing the mystery of the monogamous mice
Vol. 24, No.2
(Spring 2006)
Feature: Improved strategies and technology for designing natural reserves promise greater system biodiversity Sidebar: PISCO and the MLPA Sidebar: The NRS role in California’s protected environments
Dedication ceremony for Sagehen experimental forest links UC Reserve System with nationwide network
Wide range of UC classes take to the wild with meaningful results
New director at Sedgwick Reserve bears watching
NRS announces 2006-07 grad student grant winners
Vol. 24, No.1
(Spring 2006)
Feature: Helping endangered species keep their footing on the slippery slope of the genetic bottleneck
New study suggests one way to control invasive ants
California beetles go online
Chumash summer camp at Sedgwick Reserve realizing long-held dream of cultural revival
NRS wraps another successful Mathias Symposium at Bodega Marine Reserve
Gold company’s million-dollar endowment improves daily life at McLaughlin Reserve
UC researcher perishes in an attempt to rescue two colleagues
Sagehen Creek Field Station oral histories available online
Vol. 23, No.2
(Autumn 2005)
Feature: New laser-mapping technology enables aerial ground truthing
Marine biologist Dan Costa at the TOPP of his game
Teens learn leadership and literacy in the Sierras at Sagehen Creek Field Station
Kids star in bug video produced at Valentine Reserve
Sedgwick Reserve celebrates new all-green science center
Vol. 23, No.1
(Spring 2005)
Feature: Of mice and (wo)men — Retirement just means more time for research
Ultrasonic mouse talk discovered at Hastings
Young readers in L.A. learn science through art
Bodega algae become art
Director of Motte, Emerson, and Box Spring retires
2004-05 Mathias winners
Vol. 22, No.2
(Summer 2004)
Feature: Sagehen Creek Field Station becomes the 35th NRS reserve!
Sagehen brings a half century of history and scientific data to the UC reserve system
The Leopold years (1965-1978) and beyond — Sagehen hits its stride after Starker takes charge
Sagehen hosts two generations of “Bug Boot Camp”
The fall—how Sagehen very nearly didn’t survive the 1990s
Recovery and renaissance—how Sagehen lived to join the reserve system
“Portfolio of reserves” available to Sagehen-based scientists
Vol. 22, No.1
(Spring 2004)
Feature: Field notes from underground reveal the true nature and extent of flora-fungi relations.
The upper crust surviving nicely at NRS desert site
A search for Hans Jenny awakens new appreciation for the legacy of this world-class soil scientist
Old-growth reserve plans new-growth future
The bad news and good news about Elliott Reserve
Remote reserve set to welcome new on-site manager
NRS desert reserve celebrates its first quarter of a century and an NRS elder
Frank Pitelka, distinguished ecologist and longtime NRS scientist, academic, and administrator, dies at 87
Clark Kerr, legendary UC president and NRS visionary, dies at 92
UC Reserve System premieres on UCTV channel
Vol. 21, No.2
(Fall 2003)
Feature: Man meets mollusk and learns size does matter, even in the intertidal zone
Scientists at NRS coastal sites (tide)pool their knowledge
Well-mentored, hands-on training at Bodega Marine Reserve gets careers started
NRS reserve manager give his expertise to naming state’s marine managed areas
National Areas Association honors NRS managers with both its 2003 annual awards
Vol. 21, No.1
(Spring 2003)
Feature: Bushwhacking 101 offers new take on age-old environmental problems