Zoe Wood, UC Davis PhD student, and 2024 WMRC Mini-Grant recipient will be discussing her research on the glandular alpine plant Hulsea algida. This event is free & open to the public. Registration is required, please visit the provided URL. This talk will be recorded & posted to our YouTube channel at a later date.
Presented by the following GLORIA GB members: Brian Smithers, Jim Bishop, Jan Nachlinger, Seema Shelth, and Kaleb Goff. GLORIA Great Basin is a non-profit organization, supporting an international mission to assess global changes in composition and distribution of alpine flora in a changing climate. They collect, manage, and disseminate the data for field sites in...
Join Big Pine Paiute tribal member and Akamya Cultural Group Director Sage Romero as he discusses the legacy of Alice Piper and the Piper v Big Pine case that set the precedent for Brown v Board of Education. PLEASE SEE THE INFORMATION BELOW FOR THE LOCATION. This event is free and open to the public....
The willow leaf beetle Chrysomela aeneicollis lives at high altitude in the South-central Sierra Nevada, from near Mount Whitney to Yosemite. This California insect has been the focus of studies of ‘Evolution in Action’ since the 1980s, when Dr. John Smiley (former WMRC station manager) and then graduate student Nathan Rank conducted experiments examining relationships...
Elizabeth Dahlhoff, Professor of Biology at Santa Clara University and colleague of Nathan Rank, will discuss her long-term research on examining physiological, biochemical, and molecular mechanisms by which animals respond to environmental change. Her research specifically focuses on that of the willow leaf beetle that dwells in the high Sierra Nevada. PLEASE SEE THE INFORMATION...
Bill Krebs, UCLA & WMRC alumna will be presenting on the Cambrian fossil history of the White Mountains. The Cambrian Explosion was a seminal event in the history of life on Earth. It occurred ~ 541 mya at the beginning of the Cambrian Period and is characterized by the first appearance of abundant mineralized invertebrates,...
PLEASE READ THE FULL DETAILS: REGISTRATION IS FULL. To be waitlisted please email wmrcinfo@ucla.edu. There is no guarantee for openings. A suggested donation of $20 per person is strongly recommended. Our email admin will discuss donation options. There is a fifteen-person participant cap for this trip. Bill Krebs will be leading a 4x4 and hiking...
UC WMRC will have a booth at Sierra Earth Day, come say "hi".
WMRC will have a booth at this event too, come say "hi".
Presented by John D. Wehausen, Ph.D., retired WMRC research scientist. The Owens Valley is unique in having different subspecies of bighorn sheep on each side. This talk will put our local bighorn sheep into a much larger context of the evolution of all wild sheep in North America, including when different forms appeared. It will...