The Berkeley Natural History Field Stations invite applications for the “The Carol Baird Graduate Student Award for Field Research.” Awards will be granted to graduate students to support high quality research that is carried out primarily in the field, based in or around Berkeley’s
Recent paper by Rempe and Dietrich on rock moisture featured by NSF, SF Chronicle
Daniella Rempe and Bill Dietrich’s recent paper, “Direct observations of rock moisture, a hidden component of the hydrologic cycle” is receiving press on the NSF News website, the San Francisco Chronicle, ScienceDaily, and other news organizations. Their study, conducted at
Congratulations to the Baird Awardees!
Congratulations to the 2017 awardees of the Carol Baird Fund for Graduate Field Research! Of the five awardees, Kelsey Crutchfield-Peters, Gabe Rossi, Prahlada Papper, and Jesse Hahm will each be conducting research within the Angelo Reserve in 2018.
Carol Baird Graduate Student Award for Field Research
The UC Berkeley Natural History Field Stations have announced a new award for graduate students conducting field research in or around the following Berkeley field stations: the Angelo Coast Range Reserve, Blue Oak Ranch Reserve, Hastings Natural History Reservation, Point Reyes Field
Research at Angelo- Dr. Sarah Kupferberg
Dr. Sarah Kupferberg’s research is focused on food web ecology, amphibian population biology, and conservation of aquatic ecosystems in California. A particular interest of Dr. Kupferberg is the effects of dams and diversions on the physical and biotic conditions for
The Willits Hub Fish & Aquatics Restoration Day
Sarah Kupferberg, Bill Dietrich, and Mary Power participated in a Fish and Aquatics Day celebration as a kickoff of the “Willits Hub” on Sunday, March 19th 2017. The Willits Hub is being launched as a meeting place and headquarters for several non-profit environmental
Mary Power and Gabe Rossi, and the stalwart student teams doing Eyes on the Eel surveys: The Movie.
Here’s a link to the movie (released in mid May 2017) on our Eyes on the Eel surveys. https://www.hhmi.org/biointeractive/riverine-food-webs-how-flow-rates-affect-biomass Shot by Amy Miller and Josh Rosen, Spine Productions, the movie features Gabe Rossi, myself, and many of the stalwart students
Listening to the forest breathe: monitoring tree trunk sap flow and size
Trees must pull water from soil and rock, where it is held at tension, to their leaves, where it evaporates to the atmosphere through open stomata. This process, called transpiration, is a major component of the hillslope water budget and
Eyes on the Eel!
Some evening in June, July, or September, you may see a wet, tired crew of river ecologists eating burgers at The Peg Inn (Never don’t stop there!) or the Chimney Tree House in southern Humboldt. Or you may see our
Prof. Mary Power Speaks at USGS Pacific Regional Colloquium
Angelo Academic Director, Mary Power, gave a webcast at the US Geological Survey’s Pacific Regional Colloquium on September 14, 2015. The talk was titled “The Thirsty Eel: Drough Imapcs on Salmon and Cyanobacteria in River Food Webs.” You can watch