by David Lipson | Aug 8, 2019 | Global Change, Research
Dr. Heather Axen (Salve Regina University) and her team of high school students from Vermont, Rhode Island and Kentucky visited SMER to investigate the epigenetic response to stressful temperatures in the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster and related species....
by David Lipson | Feb 2, 2019 | Plant Ecology, Research
UC Berkeley researchers study ferns and lycophytes at SMER Two researchers from the Rothfels Lab in the Integrative Biology Department of the University of California, Berkeley visited the Santa Margarita Ecological Reserve (SMER) in mid-January. The Rothfels Lab...
by David Lipson | Jan 12, 2019 | Plant Ecology, Research, SMER
Rolf Baumberger, from the University of Zurich, has studied the sticky monkeyflower, Diplacus puniceus (formerly Mimulus aurantiacus) at SMER for over two decades. An individual plant can switch from a yellow, insect-pollinated flowers to red, bird-pollinated flowers...
by David Lipson | Jan 12, 2019 | Fire, Research, Sky Oaks, SMER
Shown above is a remote fire watch system installed at SDSU’s Sky Oaks Field Station, part of a collaborative project involving UCSD, SDG&E and SDSU. Powered by photovoltaic panels and tied into the HPWREN network, the four cameras provide a 360 degree view...
by David Lipson | Jan 12, 2019 | Conservation, MTRP, Research, SMER, Soils
For her M.S. of Ecology, Sharon Reeves did her thesis research on the use of cyanobacteria and algae cultured from biological soil crusts (BSC’s) for restoring disturbed soils. BSC’s naturally occur on the surface of soils in arid and semiarid...
