2021
- 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