Woodpecker granaries, digital weather nodes, and wetland tours were just a few of the attractions offered at NRS 50th anniversary festivities at UC campuses last Saturday. Celebrate UCI At Celebrate UCI, the sesquicentennial party-cum-open house on Irvine campus, dozens of visitors took walking tours San Joaquin Marsh. At the adjacent Arboretum, reserve director Peter Bowler set […]
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From the HMS Beagle to Barcroft Station
The Value of Natural Reserves and Field Stations In 1831, a young British naturalist by the name of Charles Darwin sailed to the New World on the research vessel HMS Beagle. Along the way, the ship put in at both mainland South America and the Galápagos Islands, landforms separated by over 1,000 kilometers of open […]
NRS Summer Artist-in-Residency Program
Long known for supporting science research and teaching, the Natural Reserve System has teamed up with UC’s leading arts research organization to encourage reserve use by artists. Together with the University of California Institute for Research in the Arts (UCIRA), the NRS is offering summer artist-in-residency opportunities at one of eleven reserves. The Arts2NRS program […]
Field Quarter: it’s life-changing
In 1973, a group of UC Santa Cruz undergraduates filed into vans and headed for the Mojave Desert. Led by Kenneth S. Norris, founder of the UC Natural Reserve System and the University’s first professor of natural history, they would spend the next dozen weeks traveling to wild places across California. The lessons they learned […]
Seeing the bedrock beneath the trees
by Robert Sanders, UC Berkeley News Center University of California, Berkeley, geologist William Dietrich pioneered the application of airborne LIDAR – light detection and ranging – at the NRS’s Angelo Coast Range Reserve near Laytonville to map mountainous terrain, stripping away the vegetation to see the underlying ground surface. But that didn’t take him deep […]
New observatory to look deep into Eel River watershed
by Robert Sanders, UC Berkeley Media Relations A $4.9 million grant will fund a study of the nearly 10,000 -square-kilometer Eel River watershed in Northern California, home to the UC Natural Reserve System’s Angelo Coast Range Reserve. Led by UC Berkeley scientists, the five-year study will examine how the vegetation, geology and topography of the […]
Engineering Aid for Reserves
Enterprising UC Berkeley engineering students have gone into the spy business. Over the past semester, they have developed two compact, remote-controlled aircraft. The purpose of these flying machines: to keep tabs on UC Natural Reserves. You might think Natural Reserve System (NRS) scientists would be looking over their shoulders in fear. Instead, they’re thrilled at […]
Celebrate Earth Day with the NRS
The Natural Reserve System is celebrating Earth Day 2011 with two new television programs. The shows will be broadcast on University of California Television/UCTV starting April 22, Earth Day. Tour the NRS’s field stations and learn what scientists are discovering about California’s rich biodiversity. The two new programs focus on reserves along the coast of […]