Building future careers in STEM, students in the FUERTE program travel to the Eastern Sierra to explore nature, gain field experience, and learn from top scientists. Located at the UCUC Nature’s Sierra Nevada Aquatic Research Laboratory and Valentine Camp reserves, students get an unforgettable, hands on learning experience.
An unexpected recovery, UC Santa Barbara
For more than two decades, UC Santa Barbara biologist Roland Knapp has been working with mountain yellow-legged frogs in the Sierras. Based at the UCSB-managed Sierra Nevada Aquatic Research Laboratory, he has seen and studied drastic changes in frog populations, watching their numbers dwindle from many thousands to nearly zero at some locations. And now he’s seeing them return.