An ambitious plan to use the NRS to detect and forecast the ecological impacts of climate change on California is awarded a President's Research Catalyst Award by UC chief Janet Napolitano.Read more >>
Barcoding bugs for biodiversity
Biology students at UC San Diego capture arthropods at Scripps Coastal Reserve and DNA barcode each specimen for class. Their findings will be used to augment databases of reserve organisms and local biodiversity. Read more >>
Bringing Back the Wild
A new documentary, Bringing Back the Wild: Coal Oil Point Reserve, tells the inspiring story of how Coal Oil Point was restored back to healthy wetland and coastal strand habitat. The film debuts at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival this January. Read more >>
Jan. 15-17California Native Plant SocietyConference
DoubleTree Hotel, San Jose
Vince Vogeli, Director of Hastings Natural History Reservation, offers information about visiting and working at NRS reserves in the exhibit hall.
Jan. 23Walking Ecology
9-11 am, Sedgwick Reserve, 3566 Brinkerhoff Rd., Santa Ynez Oaks of Sedgwick
Claudia Tyler, a research scientist with the UCSB Institute for Computational Earth System Science, will talk about the oaks that populate the reserve.
NEWS BRIEFS
2014-15 Mathias Grants awarded
This year's 16 grant recipients, many studying the effects of climate change, will receive $38,000 to fund graduate research at NRS reserves. Read more >>
Raccoon roundworm ecology
A study of raccoon roundworm at Coal Oil Point Reserve has uncovered a high infection rate for rodents and raccoons, with implications for human health. Read more >>
C storage at Sedgwick
How to stash carbon in the landscape is a hot topic these days. But what controls the fate of C in soils remains largely unknown. UCSB’s Josh Schimmel has begun research at Sedgwick Reserve studying carbon sequestration in oak savanna/grassland landscapes. Image credit: Brenda Juarez
One bird, two bird, redbird
This red-breasted sapsucker was among the 53 bird species spied by volunteers participating in the 2014 Christmas Bird Count at Sedgwick Reserve. Photo is courtesy Sedgwick docent Dennis Nord.
