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Retired Riverside faculty fund Advancing Inclusivity Internship

March 15, 2022 By Kathleen Wong

Advancing Inclusivity Fellowship

By Kathleen Wong, UC Natural Reserve System Thanks to a gift from retired UC Riverside faculty, the UC Riverside Natural Reserve System is offering an internship for undergraduates to participate in summer field research at one or more of the campus’s natural reserves. The Advancing Inclusivity Internship will provide diverse students from Southern California universities […]

Desert bighorn sheep in the White Mountains

January 11, 2022 By Kathleen Wong

desert bighorn

This story was originally published in the Fall/Winter 2021–22 edition of the White Mountain Research Center Newsletter, which features introductions to new staff, goodbyes to former researchers and colleagues, summaries of studies on rock art research, a new flora of the area, GLORIA alpine summit survey updates, and more. By Rick Ianniello, Environmental Scientist, California […]

Delivering environmental data from the NRS

October 14, 2021 By Kathleen Wong

delivering environmental data

By Kathleen Wong, UC Natural Reserve System Climate is the hottest topic in California these days. As global warming heats up the West, it’s set off a cascade of effects ranging from toxic algal blooms, to tree die-offs, to wildfires of unprecedented size and ferocity. The situation has everyone asking the same question: what is […]

NRS instrumental in biologist’s ascent to grad school

September 23, 2021 By Kathleen Wong

Tim Brown

By Kathleen Wong, UC Natural Reserve System Tim Brown spends his summers on top of the Golden State. While other Californians tan at the beach, hold BBQs, or relax at the pool, he makes a beeline for the high country. Striding across snowfields and rock scree atop eastern California’s highest ranges, this UC Santa Cruz […]

Research shows field courses bridge STEM diversity gaps

May 21, 2020 By Kathleen Wong

STEM diversity

By Kathleen Wong, UC Natural Reserve System When Roxanne Beltran was admitted to UC Santa Cruz, she was thrilled to finally start her college career, possibly to become a marine biologist. But the introductory biology and physics classes she was required to take almost drove her out of science. “I was suddenly in 400 person […]

2019-20 Mathias Graduate Student Research Grant awards

December 9, 2019 By Kathleen Wong

2019-20 Mathias awards

By Kathleen Wong, UC Natural Reserve System 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 […]

Playing climate change leap-frog with trees…in very slow motion

January 30, 2018 By Kathleen Wong

climate change leap-frog

by Brian Smithers, University of California, Davis, and Constance Millar, USDA Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Research Station One of the predictions of current climate change is that species will generally shift their ranges up in elevation in response to warming. However, some species are likely to be better at that shift than others. Among the species […]

Earth’s oldest trees losing climate race

September 18, 2017 By Kathleen Wong

Limber pines are leapfrogging over bristlecone pines in mountaintop competition by Kat Kerlin, UC Davis Bristlecone pine and limber pine trees in the Great Basin region are like two very gnarled, old men in a slow-motion race up the mountaintop, and climate change is the starting gun, according to a study from the University of California, Davis.  […]

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