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Keeping Carpinteria Salt Marsh connected to the tides

December 8, 2020 By Kathleen Wong

Carpinteria Prop. 84

Carpinteria Salt Marsh is a world defined by mud, floods, and salt. Ocean brine inundates its twisting channels twice a day, fostering plants that can tolerate salty leaves and perpetually wet feet. The long-legged birds that nest and forage here dine on snails and fishes living within its twisting channels. Seawater is the lifeblood of […]

2020-21 Mathias Grant recipients

December 2, 2020 By Kathleen Wong

2020-21 Mathias recipients

Most people will be staying close to home in 2021 due to the pandemic. UC Santa Barbara graduate student Samantha Sambado will not be among them. Her doctoral research will take her on multiple journeys up and down California, in search of ticks and the human pathogens they carry. “Ticks are the number one vector […]

Wildfire expands Blue Oak Ranch hydrology study

November 5, 2020 By Kathleen Wong

post-fire hydrology

By Tim Stephens, UC Santa Cruz The SCU Lightning Complex Fire swept through the oak woodlands of Blue Oak Ranch Reserve atop Mount Hamilton as a low, quickly moving grass burn, sparing the reserve’s buildings and most of the oak trees. But the August 20 blaze caused serious losses at a watershed research site established […]

Wildfires spark burn recovery study at 9 UC Natural Reserves

November 3, 2020 By Kathleen Wong

burn recovery study

August wildfires incinerated tens of thousands of acres across seven UC Natural Reserves and affected parkland adjacent to two more reserves. This fall, the UC Natural Reserve System (NRS) will deploy rapid response teams to characterize the extent and intensity of the burns, as well as the effects of wildfire on a wide range of […]

Teaching a field program amid a pandemic

October 17, 2020 By Kathleen Wong

CEC Fall 2020

Krikor Andonian and Tim Miller, instructors of the NRS’s California Ecology and Conservation program, deliver a report from the field on their Fall 2020 course. CEC program is one of relatively few UC classes being conducted in person right now, and is likely be the only one that will remain in its own social bubble […]

California Biodiversity Network to protect state’s natural heritage

October 16, 2020 By Kathleen Wong

California Biodiversity Network

California is home to more species of plants and animals than any other state, accounting for roughly a third of all species found in the nation. But intensive agriculture, resource extraction, habitat loss, invasive species, dwindling water supplies, and a changing climate pose imminent threats to these natural riches. With this in mind, the UC […]

Land donation expands Burns Piñon Ridge Reserve

October 7, 2020 By Kathleen Wong

Burns gift

The grandson of the couple whose lands were the basis of the UC Natural Reserve System’s Burns Piñon Ridge Reserve have donated an inholding of pristine desert. The gift protects a key portion of the Mojave Desert site, and enables the reserve to access state bond money to improve reserve facilities. “This land supports really […]

Historic Hastings buildings renewed

September 23, 2020 By Kathleen Wong

Hastings Prop. 84

This story is part of NRS reserves transformed by Proposition 84 funds, a series describing the facilities improvements and expansions at NRS reserves supported by Proposition 84 bond funds. Heritage buildings can be burdens as much as blessings. Replete with character and handcrafted details, many also lack present-day essentials such as up-to-code wiring and insulation. […]

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