We were very pleased and grateful for an audio report from Berkeley undergrad Sohil story about his experience at the Angelo this summer. His grad student mentor Suzanne Kelson reports “His story was chosen by the local radio station (KOZT
Climate extremes and the Critical Zone
As people who had planned to live ordinary lives face early-onset climate change, we are discovering that it not the change in average temperature or precipitation, but the extremes that will change our future. In the US alone, we are
Turbidites and rip-up clasts in Elder Creek
Elder Creek, part of the South Fork Eel River watershed, lies in the Franciscan Formation found underfoot in most of the Northern Coast Ranges of California. The rocks here were deposited in marine environments when the Farallon slab was still
Measuring stream discharge with the salt dilution technique
Measuring water fluxes in the Eel River Watershed is extremely important. We are in the midst of a multi-year drought and demands on the water supply for agriculture and rural use are only increasing. An ongoing project at the Eel
Phil G encounters invaders in Hunter’s Pool, just downstream from Angelo
Phil Georgakakos sent these photos yesterday of two invaders–the red swamp crayfish, Procambarus clarkii, and bullheads tentatively identified by Mary Power as black bullheads, Ictalurus melas. (It may be a brown bullhead, check out the pectoral spine-if smooth, black, if
Eel River Algal Foray 2015
On June 12-14, 2015, the Angelo Reserve was the site of another wonderful Eel River Algal Foray. Algal experts Dr. Paula Furey and Professors Rex Lowe and Yvonne Vadeboncoeur came out from Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Ohio to teach our neighbors
A new crayfish may be invading the Eel, unfortunately.
On March 14 2015, Mary Power found a new crayfish in the South Fork Eel River, just north of the Angelo Coast Range Reserve on the eastern edge of the first pool below confluence of the South Fork Eel with
Ring necked snakes
Landscapes of Food and Fear–field ecology short course planned
On March 13-15 2015, Joel Brown (University of Illinois, Chicago), Jim Estes (UC Santa Cruz), and Justin Brashares and Mary Power (UC Berkeley) and five graduate students from the Power and the Brashares labs got together at Angelo to discuss
A new crayfish invading the Eel?
On March 14 2015, Mary Power and Phil Georgakakos found a new crayfish in the South Fork Eel River, just north of the Angelo Coast Range Reserve on the eastern edge of the first pool below confluence of the South