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2022

  • 2022–23 Mathias Grants awarded
  • Fog binds California and Chile together
  • A legacy of research: Sedgwick turns 25
  • Study of sundowner winds offers wildfire forecasting insights
  • Student research gear closet lowers barriers to field experiences
  • Unseen California arts initiative uses NRS reserves as canvas
  • Stebbins Cold Canyon Reserve expands
  • Cricket crew flocks to Sedgwick
  • First Swarth Fogel Undergraduate Research Scholar studies vernal pool grazing
  • The organizing principles behind stream communities
  • Elephant seals measure “the Blob”
  • Researchers track juvenile elephant seals for insights into mortality rates
  • The FAIR Island Project links data with place of origin
  • Inoculating frogs against an amphibian pandemic
  • Students dip their toes into coastal science at Younger Lagoon
  • Soil warming experiment to measure future carbon emissions
  • Remembering “isotope queen” Marilyn Fogel, pioneering scientist, beloved mentor 
  • Art Riggs, diabetes researcher and Granite Mountains supporter, remembered
  • SHIFT campaign links plant biodiversity and health with NASA’s remote sensing technology
  • NRS establishes research compact with Chilean university reserves
  • Beach hoppers feed island foxes
  • 2022 Field Science Fellows
  • Retired Riverside faculty fund Advancing Inclusivity Internship
  • Following rain, desert microbes exhale potent greenhouse gas
  • A tale of two fishes
  • Hands on the Land to renew the landscape at McLaughlin
  • Anza-Borrego reserve receives major endowment gift
  • Wildfire runoff may impede steelhead sense of smell
  • Desert bighorn sheep in the White Mountains

2021

  • 2021-22 Mathias Grants awarded
  • Sister reserve summit in Loreto, Mexico
  • Steve Monfort is the new executive director of the UC Natural Reserve System
  • Snake training at Deep Canyon
  • Experienced mothers prime pups for success
  • Longtime NRS Executive Director Peggy Fiedler retires
  • Biologist wins Packard Fellowship for Año Nuevo research
  • Delivering environmental data from the NRS
  • 20 years of snowy plovers
  • NRS publishes Capital Campaign Report
  • New Swarth Fogel NRS Undergraduate Research Scholarship
  • Fundraising campaign gives Kendall-Frost Marsh a fresh start
  • Survival lessons from a California frog
  • NRS instrumental in biologist’s ascent to grad school
  • Younger Lagoon to roll out wetland welcome mat for frogs
  • Fire and the foothills: reducing wildfire threats while boosting biodiversity
  • Reconnecting the people, plants and animals of Kendall-Frost Marsh
  • Not your average school day in Mammoth Lakes
  • Stream insects show it’s possible to clean up mining pollution in rivers
  • Bacteria can double protein released from pollen
  • Remembering Alexander Glazer, former director of the UC Natural Reserve System
  • New manager for Sagehen Creek Field Station
  • Listening in on the world of elephant seals
  • Deep Canyon expands to accommodate meetings, groups
  • Missing the middle: the importance of regional-scale field research
  • Striking kite calls San Joaquin Marsh home
  • David Wake, who warned of amphibian declines, is dead at 84
  • UC Irvine Natural Reserves: Using science to serve nature
  • Wildfires and flooding trigger black abalone rescue effort
  • State funds secure buildings and water for the Granites
  • Influential evolutionary biologist Barry Sinervo dies at age 60
  • Fear shapes feeding and resting strategies for migrating elephant seals
  • 2021 Field Science Fellows
  • Massive debris flow swamps Big Creek Reserve as heavy rains follow summer wildfire
  • Consequences of fire on California ecosystems
  • Stebbins Cold Canyon Reserve partially reopens
  • Shell currency was part of an ancient economy in the Channel Islands
  • Winter rains take toll on wildfire-burned Big Creek
  • UC Santa Cruz offers virtual tour of Younger Lagoon Natural Reserve
  • In memoriam: Antony Orme, 83, geographer, professor, and former White Mountain Research Center director

2020

  • Timeworn cattle ranch remade into NRS reserve
  • Keeping Carpinteria Salt Marsh connected to the tides
  • 2020-21 Mathias Grant recipients
  • Wildfire expands Blue Oak Ranch hydrology study
  • Wildfires spark burn recovery study at 9 UC Natural Reserves
  • Teaching a field program amid a pandemic
  • California Biodiversity Network to protect state’s natural heritage
  • Land donation expands Burns Piñon Ridge Reserve
  • Historic Hastings buildings renewed
  • Thinning Valentine Camp’s forest to save it
  • Assembling Quail Ridge Reserve
  • FUERTE connects Latinx students with environmental sciences
  • 2020 wildfires burn six UC Natural Reserves; seventh threatened
  • Bond funds renew stream research, build a lecture hall at SNARL
  • New cabins foster community at James Reserve
  • Careful planning yields a better Big Creek reserve
  • A phoenix from the ashes: Stunt Ranch field station
  • Mine facilities metamorphose into McLaughlin Natural Reserve field station
  • Nature center replaces former Coal Oil Point office shed
  • Ranch transformed into premier reserve
  • Swapping a weatherbeaten cabin for snug modern quarters
  • Shoring up Bodega Marine Reserve against the weather
  • Buildout reshapes social club into premier desert science center
  • NRS reserves transformed by Proposition 84 funds
  • Research shows field courses bridge STEM diversity gaps
  • NRS reserves adapt to coronavirus shutdown
  • Watching wildlife with help from AI
  • Arbor Creek Experimental Watershed: watching the flow of water through oak woodlands
  • Climate change harms southern California newts
  • Hiking Stebbins Cold Canyon sparks positive wildfire perceptions
  • 2020 Field Science Fellowship Awards
  • Pathogen moves from land to ocean, infecting sea otters
  • Oil pipeline company to pay $60M for 2015 Refugio Oil Spill
  • How the monkeyflower gets its spots
  • Breaking the frog fungus code
  • Confluence: Drawings and Photographs
  • UC Natural Reserve System Symposium
  • Conservation Scholars program improves diversity

2019

  • 2019-20 Mathias Graduate Student Research Grant awards
  • Students power resurvey of NRS reserves
  • Bringing back the wildflowers
  • Plugged into the environment
  • Ancient whale named for UC ocean scientists
  • California Heartbeat Initiative soars ahead
  • Field research, UC mentors inspire career in marine biology
  • Elephant seal “supermoms” produce most of the population
  • Saving the season
  • Citizen scientists census animals on Año Nuevo Island Reserve
  • Genomics project to inform California species conservation
  • Limited underground water storage make plants less susceptible to drought
  • Field station planned for UC Merced’s Vernal Pools and Grassland Reserve
  • UC Natural Reserve System gains sister reserve in Baja California Sur
  • Major gift to Valentine Eastern Sierra Reserves
  • NRS gains reserves at Point Reyes, Mount Lassen
  • Sheltering California’s most vulnerable plants
  • Weighing seals by drone
  • Anza-Borrego 2019 super bloom
  • Drought in Sierra streams
  • 2019 super bloom at Boyd
  • Record rain and snow temporarily close James Reserve
  • Marine heat wave pulled tropical species north
  • Rare sunfish washes ashore at Coal Oil Point
  • Foreign bees monopolize Southern California flower resources
  • Doctor drought
  • Learning to swim, elephant seal style
  • Reviving field research with living laboratories and outdoor education
  • 2019 Simes award recipients to study Lyme disease, woodpecker cooperation
  • Groundwater shepherds California forests through long droughts

2018

  • Jen Hunter, new director of Hastings Natural History Reservation
  • Sun protection for mosses and records of paleo climate: the 2018-19 Mathias Graduate Student Research Grant awards
  • Spreading resistance: NRS scientist returns frogs to high Sierra lakes
  • Granite Mountains plants at UC Botanical Garden
  • Sentinel species show mine-damaged streams returning to life
  • International carbon experts gather at Blue Oak Ranch
  • Just add water—Sedgwick pond renewed
  • Measuring greenhouse gases on the go
  • NRS hosts earthquake warning system sensors
  • Summer hiking warning for Stebbins Cold Canyon Reserve
  • Learning from “little monsters”
  • McLaughlin Reserve art project wins award
  • Angelo soils yield potential antibiotics
  • Proposition 68 to benefit the NRS
  • UC Natural Reserve System launches fundraising campaign
  • Stunt Ranch study wins state science fair prize
  • NRS researcher Susan Harrison elected to National Academy of Sciences
  • Online tool maps reserve species records
  • Disease caused catastrophic sea star declines
  • Hidden ‘rock moisture’ may be key to tree survival during drought
  • Tracking data reveals common patterns in marine animal travels
  • Ancient storm flooding evidence reveals future vulnerabilities
  • Mudflows make Carpinteria Salt Marsh a study in recovery
  • Where’s the bear?
  • Pencils spread word about invasive pathogen
  • Playing climate change leap-frog with trees…in very slow motion
  • The Golden Forest
  • Role of honey bees in ecosystem pollination
  • Science to safeguard species

2017

  • From buzz pollination to seal bones: the 2017-18 Mathias Grant awards
  • Tracking water through California ecosystems
  • Stephanie Rosas, UC Santa Cruz
  • Michele Maybee, UC Berkeley
  • Stella Yuan, UC San Diego
  • Diana Tataru, UC Santa Cruz
  • NRS-Point Reyes National Seashore Interns
  • Michael Spaeth, UC Merced
  • Addressing ecology’s climate questions
  • Early days of the NRS recounted in Roger Samuelsen oral history
  • Big Creek Reserve partially reopens
  • Earth’s oldest trees losing climate race
  • From brussels sprouts field to coastal prairie
  • NRS joins Tahoe forest partnership
  • Baird award supports research at Berkeley NRS reserves
  • Archiving NRS history
  • New director for Boyd Deep Canyon
  • Dramatic wildlife rescue at Stebbins
  • Apply for a 2017–18 Mathias Grant
  • Solar tags illuminate woodpecker ways
  • Building respect for science
  • Refuges against rising ocean acidification
  • Sister reserve links NRS with Africa
  • The world of fungi within a redwood
  • Testing rangeland change with the tools of history
  • La Kretz Research Center at Sedgwick Reserve
  • Road conditions temporarily close Landels-Hill Big Creek Reserve

2016

  • Drought dealt death to California oaks
  • UC President tours Bodega Marine Lab and Reserve
  • Foggy Link Between Redwoods, Climate Change
  • High-tech sensors monitor ecosystems in climate change research program
  • The frogs are all right
  • UCSC Natural Reserves director appointed to endowed chair
  • Sighted at the conservation crossroads
  • A conservation emergency
  • “One Canoe, One Island, One Planet”
  • Snowy plover orphans released at Coal Oil Point Reserve
  • “All this rugged beauty”
  • NRS on Open Road TV
  • Mapping for conservation
  • Feathered foresters restore island oaks
  • Glen MacDonald leads White Mountain Research Center
  • Stebbins reserve reopens to public
  • Seed snapshot for science
  • Seal breath inspires carbon monoxide therapy
  • How plants could adapt to changing climate
  • Renovated Blue Oak Ranch open for business
  • Two mice with one trap
  • The critical zone: where life happens
  • Coastal fog and redwood health
  • Uphill battle for CA native plants
  • Nonstop nature: the NRS field course
  • New director for Valentine Eastern Sierra Reserve
  • Biodiversity boosts ecosystem stability
  • 2015-16 Mathias Grants awarded

2015

  • Dancing biologist inspired by art and science
  • Conservation scholars program to increase diversity in field sciences
  • 10 reasons to celebrate preserved lands, outdoor classrooms
  • A classroom without walls
  • Gift funds Presidential Chair for UCSC Natural Reserves
  • UC Santa Barbara celebrates 50 years of the UC Natural Reserve System
  • Marine Protected Areas aid Channel Islands fishes
  • Molting elephant seals add mercury to coastal seawater
  • Hunting for green treasure
  • Male elephant seals recognize rivals’ voices
  • NRS Fair marks 50th anniversary
  • Bringing field ecology online
  • New national monument for Northern California
  • Invisible Barn materializes
  • California wildflower diversity diminishing with warmer, drier winters
  • SNARL unveils energy-efficient meeting hall
  • Tracking climate change atop White Mountain
  • Refugio oil spill fouls NRS reserve
  • Slugs, Gauchos toast NRS 50th
  • Curious about life
  • NRS draws crowds at Celebrate UCI, Cal Day
  • NRS Day at UC Merced
  • Saving oaks in Big Sur
  • Beyond the White Mountains
  • UC Merced naturalist training expands with gift
  • Digital California plant portal hits 2 million specimens
  • UC President Napolitano visits Año Nuevo Island Reserve
  • The NRS supercourse—“an amazing opportunity”
  • Warmer, drier climate shifts forest structure
  • UC Natural Reserve System Celebrates 50 Years
  • 2014-15 Mathias Grants awarded

2014

  • Raccoon roundworm: Not just a raccoon parasite
  • Barcoding bugs for biodiversity
  • NRS climate research gets UC president’s $1.9M research award
  • New Documentary on Coal Oil Point Natural Reserve
  • UC-wide program immerses students in the natural world
  • Fat makes elephant seals efficient divers
  • Wilbur (Bill) Mayhew, professor and NRS co-founder, 1920–2014
  • From science to solutions
  • Anza-Borrego reserve reopens bigger, better
  • Reviving Harry James’s Trailfinders
  • Sedgwick ranch house revival
  • UC Merced and Yosemite: A partnership for learning
  • Quarters for kestrels
  • Let it be
  • Measuring snowpack from a plane
  • A brush with preservation
  • Preview of new Blue Oak Ranch buildings
  • Mystery of Death Valley sailing stones solved
  • Drying Sierra meadows could worsen drought
  • A Flutter of a Spark in the Winds
  • Apply for a 2014-2015 Mathias Grant
  • James Reserve frogs survive winter but suffer in drought
  • Mural adds spice to Kendall-Frost Marsh Reserve
  • Historical ecology of California’s Channel Islands
  • From the HMS Beagle to Barcroft Station
  • President Napolitano explores UC-Yosemite links
  • 2014 Arts2NRS Winners
  • Why art at NRS reserves?
  • A lesson in nature’s restoration
  • Culprits of native pigeon die-off found
  • Raising an Invisible Barn
  • Showcasing Science at the Granites
  • The Bustling White Mountains of Yesteryear
  • NRS Summer Artist-in-Residency Program
  • Building a Better Basemap
  • No Fukushima radiation found in California kelp
  • Field Quarter: it’s life-changing
  • Seeing the bedrock beneath the trees
  • Vernal Pools Reserve Dedication
  • Fanny Hastings Arnold, benefactor of Hastings Reserve, 1914-2013
  • Sierra Nevada Aquatic Research Lab building a net-zero classroom and lecture hall
  • Coastal Coyotes Develop a Taste for Marine Life
  • Mayhew Graduate Research Award applicants needed
  • New book on Suisun Marsh by NRS Director
  • Connecting the Dots
  • Mojave Desert Yields Two New Poppies
  • Drought, Fire, and Flood in Mediterranean Climates
  • Floristic Discovery in the California Desert
  • Observing Climate Change in Class
  • Central California’s Treasure Island
  • Paper Published on Mediterranean Exchange
  • Merced Vernal Pools Join the Natural Reserve System
  • New observatory to look deep into Eel River watershed
  • 2013-2014 Mathias Grants Awarded
  • The Intelligent Plant

2013

  • The Friendliest Bird on the Beach
  • Oceans and Mediterranean Climate
  • Climate change study at Valentine Reserve/SNARL
  • Fieldwork: The Great Outdoors
  • The New Naturalists
  • Undergrads Research the Sierra Nevada
  • Boyd Deep Canyon Lecture Series 2013-14
  • The aliens have landed
  • High Tech in the High Sierra
  • Conifer Endophytes: The Microbe Partners of Pines

2012

  • Snake Tales
  • Study of the Seasons: Phenology at the NRS
  • NRS Launches Sister Reserve Program
  • Fog Preserves Relict Pine Forests
  • White Mountain Research Center 2013 Minigrants
  • Blue Oak Reserve Arrives at San Jose Airport
  • Live Learning: The UCSC Supercourse
  • Dancing with Extinction
  • Prof. Robert Norris, Granites and NRS supporter, 1921-2012
  • 2012-2013 Graduate Student Research Grants Available
  • Sonoran Desert Research Symposium
  • Quail Researcher to Lead James Reserve
  • Engineering Aid for Reserves
  • Land Ethic Leaders Training Coming to Sagehen
  • New Director for Yosemite Field Station

2011

  • Mathias Award Winners for 2011-2012
  • Mediterranean Cooperative Fellowships Awarded
  • Mediterranean Reserve Managers International Cooperative Fellowship
  • Productive Habitat Isn’t Always More Diverse
  • Bracing for a Heat Wave
  • The Fog Factor
  • 2012 Mildred E. Mathias Student Research Grant Awards
  • Sedgwick Reserve Telescope Spots ‘Once in a Generation’ Supernova
  • Radar Detects Early Tsunami Signs
  • Rapid Evolution a Recipe for Success
  • NRS Spearheads Mediterranean Ecosystems Protection Group
  • Colorado Desert Site Joins the UC Natural Reserve System
  • Snakes in the Grass
  • Ecologist draws students, city kids to nature’s wonders
  • NRS Reserve Wins Human Diversity Award
  • New Leader for UC Santa Barbara Reserves
  • Gertrude Emerson, Emerson Oaks Donor, 1918-2011
  • Into the Deep with Elephant Seals
  • Celebrate Earth Day with the NRS
  • Endangered Frog Eggs Released to NRS Reserve
  • NRS Newsroom
  • Sedgwick Reserve HQ as Green as Buildings Get
  • Art Fellowship at Yosemite Field Station
  • Aldo Leopold Documentary Premieres at Berkeley
  • A Sagehen Den for Orphaned Bears
  • A Flora for the NRS
  • Beetles with NRS Links

2010

  • Sedgwick Gets a Green HQ
  • 2010 Mildred E. Mathias Grant Winners
  • Tadpole Release to Bolster Endangered Population
  • Snow Patrol
  • Observing Starshine over Sedgwick Reserve
  • NRS Makes the Countdown
  • Helping Wild Things Cross the Road
  • Water from Thin Air
  • Oak Breath Reveals the Sugary Savings in Trees
  • The Genomics of Climate Adjustment
  • Toothy Trimmers

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