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Steelhead Trout
Southern California Steelhead RecoveryThe Santa Margarita River is designated as critical habitat for the endangered southern California steelhead (Oncorhynchus mykiss). One of the major threats to the steelhead is competition from invasive species, along...
Doctoral Student Alexandria Pivovaroff Publishes Article based on Research at SMER
Coordination of stem and leaf hydraulic conductance in southern California shrubs: a test of the hydraulic segmentation hypothesis New Phytologist (2014) doi: 10.1111/nph.12850 Alexandria L. Pivovaroff1, Lawren Sack2 and Louis S. Santiago1 1Department of Botany and...
Rain!
Some images of the Santa Margarita River, taken 2/28/2014. After receiving ~1.5" of rain in a 24 hr period. USGS gauging station just below the confluence reported 1,310 cu f/s @ 1300 hrs, 2000 cu f/s @1400 hrs. Web cam images:...
Aerial Shot of River Gorge, courtesy of Douglas McCulloh
SMER Dragonflies
Pictures courtesy of SDSU alumni Gary Suttle
Grossmont College Earth Science Class Final taken at SMER
This Earth Science class is pictured at the North Station, a facility with easy access to canyon walls rich in geological features