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UCSB Natural History Collection News
Blooms are abuzz with bees and bee-searchers at NCOS and elsewhere at UCSB and beyond. Read on to learn how to recognize some of the native bees in our region (including a recent sighting of an endangered bumblebee species!) and what CCBER's student researchers are doing to improve our knowledge and ability to help support them.
UCSB part of a major effort to digitize vertebrate arthropod parasites. Read more about this months meeting at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago.
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Grassland Diversification Strategies on the NCOS Mesa
Perennial bunch grasslands are becoming increasingly rare in California, and diverse grasslands with wildflowers are even more rare. Restoration projects like UCSB's North Campus Open Space are working to curb that trend. Learn more about a project funded by the Garden Club of Santa Barbara to test different strategies for diversifying the restored grassland on the NCOS Mesa.
Kids in Nature Goes Virtual
Staff at CCBER's award-winning Kids in Nature program have been discussing the idea of videoing lessons and activities for several years, but never felt like it was the right time to bring that idea to fruition. Covid-19 quickly made it the right time. Read more here.
Virtual Center for the Study of Biotic Interactions
In the works: Learn about the Virtual Center for the Study of Biotic Interactions (ViCSBI), a new, multi-campus research initiative under development by ecologists and evolutionary biologists at UC Santa Barbara, Berkeley, Riverside, and Davis. PIs Susan Mazer, Katja Seltmann, Isaac Park, Brent Mishler, Nicole Rafferty, Emily Meineke, Matt Daugherty, Erin Wilson-Rankin, Christiane Weirauch, Noah Whiteman, Louie Yang, and others are joining botanical and entomological forces to investigate the effects of climatic and other environmental disruptions on mutualistic and anatogonistic interactions in wild and agricultural California ecosystems. To learn more about our mission, please check out our overview of ViCSBI at this link.
North Campus Open Space Restoration Project
NCOS News - June 2020
Updates - Western Snowy Plover Nest, NCOS User survey during COVID-19, and Visitor Plaza update
Feature Story - Grassland Diversification Strategies on the NCOS Mesa
Community Forum and Photos - Great, candid pics of some common birds.
Volunteer & Internship Opportunities
CCBER has many volunteer and internship opportunities in restoration ecology, natural history collections management and biological research.
