Researchers will use California climate innovation funding to analyze fire resilience in state ecosystems using drone images of reserves.
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Steve Monfort is the new executive director of the UC Natural Reserve System
Steve Monfort, former director of the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute and the National Zoo, is the new executive director of the UC Natural Reserve System. He began his new position on Nov. 4, 2021. At the Conservation Biology Institute, headquartered on 3,200-acres in Front Royal, Virginia, Monfort led teams of scientists studying and breeding more than […]
Snake training at Deep Canyon
By Heather Constable, Campus Administrative Officer, UC Riverside NRS Rattlesnakes are an uncomfortable fact of life in California. From the state line with Oregon, where the western rattlesnake holds sway, to the border with Mexico, where sidewinders rule alongside speckled, red diamond, and western diamondback rattlers, these venomous reptiles are notorious for frightening the snot […]
Bacteria can double protein released from pollen
By Kathy Keatley Garvey, UC Davis Certain species of floral bacteria can enhance pollen germination, according to a study published today from the University of California, Davis, in the journal Current Biology. “This is the first paper documenting stimulation of pollen germination by non-plants,” said first author Shawn Christensen, a doctoral candidate in associate professor Rachel Vannette’s laboratory in the […]
Remembering Alexander Glazer, former director of the UC Natural Reserve System
By Kathleen Wong, UC Natural Reserve System Alexander Glazer, an award-winning molecular biologist whose concern for the environment led him to serve as director of the University of California Natural Reserve System, has died at 86. His daughter Judy confirmed his death on July 18, in his Orinda home. Glazer was an unlikely candidate to […]
Striking kite calls San Joaquin Marsh home
On the trail of the white-tailed kite at San Joaquin Marsh Reserve.
David Wake, who warned of amphibian declines, is dead at 84
Herpetologist David Wake, who warned the world about amphibian declines, died April 29, 2021.
Massive debris flow swamps Big Creek Reserve as heavy rains follow summer wildfire
By Guy Lasnier, UC Santa Cruz Boulders the size of vehicles and decades-old redwoods were ripped from the banks of the Big Creek drainage when an atmospheric river inundated the Landels-Hill Big Creek Natural Reserve on the Big Sur coast in late January. More than 14 inches fell in two bouts in a 50-hour period between […]