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2019-20 Mathias Graduate Student Research Grant awards

December 9, 2019 By Kathleen Wong

2019-20 Mathias awards

Joshua trees will be under the gun in the California of the future. Scientists predict that it’ll become too hot and dry for these striking Mojave plants to persist in much its the high desert habitat by 2100. How much water these treelike yucca plants can store at one time is key to their conservation. […]

Students power resurvey of NRS reserves

December 6, 2019 By Kathleen Wong

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 to determine whether certain species of interest […]

Bringing back the wildflowers

November 14, 2019 By Kathleen Wong

The road linking the northern tip of Lake Berryessa to the southern shores of Clear Lake is particularly arresting in spring.

Plugged into the environment

November 4, 2019 By Kathleen Wong

The field sciences are often thought to have remained unchanged since Victorian times.

Ancient whale named for UC ocean scientists

October 10, 2019 By Kathleen Wong

An extinct species of whale was recently renamed in remembrance of the late Ken Norris and his son Richard (Dick) Norris, influential scientists at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego.

California Heartbeat Initiative soars ahead

October 2, 2019 By Kathleen Wong

CHI research

A University of California project to study the availability of water in California’s ecosystems is off to a soaring start. The California Heartbeat Initiative (CHI) uses drones, sap flow meters, and other remote sensing techniques to monitor the water status of plants across large swaths of the landscape. The project aims to interpret water status […]

Field research, UC mentors inspire career in marine biology

September 27, 2019 By Kathleen Wong

by Brenda Ortiz, UC Merced Lauren Schiebelhut credits the support and opportunities afforded to her at UC with opening the door to her career in marine research. Schiebelhut — a first-generation transfer student from Fresno — earned a bachelor’s degree in biological sciences from UC Merced in May 2009 but was uncertain about her future. […]

Elephant seal “supermoms” produce most of the population

September 17, 2019 By Kathleen Wong

seal supermoms

by Tim Stephens, UC Santa Cruz Most of the pups born in an elephant seal colony in California over a span of five decades were produced by a relatively small number of long-lived “supermoms,” according to a new study by researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz. The long-term study, published September 17 in the Canadian […]

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