Transect Articles

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Vol. 28, No.1

(Summer 2010)

• Feature: Yosemite hosts new UC Nature field station guided by a far-sighted vision
• Tenth campus UC Merced stewards its first UC Nature site
• California tiger salamanders: the secret life story of a threatened species revealed by UC Nature researchers
• Documenting a fossorial lifestyle
• Endangered frog released in native habitat at UC Nature site
• New leadership called to serve at UC Nature systemwide

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Vol. 27, No.2

(Autumn/Winter 2009)

• Feature: Envisaging the future of California’s landscapes in a time of rapid climate change
• Towers of power — UC professor transforms southern California into a laboratory to study ongoing climate change
• In memoriam: Ottie Ashley Motte and Carol Lapham Valentine

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Vol. 27, No.1

(Spring/Summer 2009)

• Feature: Sensor networks at UC Nature reserves pioneer new ways to observe Earth
• Students learn how to see at reserve-based art course
• Parasitologist’s long-term study of small subject brings big rewards

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Vol. 26, No.2

(Autumn/Winter 2008)

• Feature: We can predict how our weather will behave, but can we ever learn to forecast our water? Keck HydroWatch says, why not?
• Why nature at UC?

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Vol. 26, No.1

( Spring/Summer 2008 )

• Feature: How a “gateway reserve” serves as a research hub and expands scientific horizons beyond UC Nature boundaries
• McLaughlin’s serpentine enables specialization
• Quail Ridge wireless network expands research
• New UC Nature reserve: Blue Oak Ranch Reserve
• Kids In Nature wins CA environmental award
• New campus administrative director at UCSC, new resident manager at Big Creek

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Vol. 25, No.2

( Autumn/Winter 2007 )

• Feature: Mysteries of the grasslands
• Students of geology “rock out” at Sagehen reserve
• Successful teen program expands to second UC Nature site
• Urban middle schoolers explore the state’s biodiversity
• Campus UC Nature director at UC Santa Cruz retires to international exploits

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Vol. 25, No.1

( Spring/Summer 2007 )

• Feature: A parasite’s world — looking into the planet’s most popular lifestyle
• Beleaguered marsh on life support still persists as a highly productive natural resource
• The ten commandments of salvage for ecological restoration
• Pursuing the mystery of the monogamous mice

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Vol. 24, No.2

(Spring 2006)

• Feature: Improved strategies and technology for designing natural reserves promise greater system biodiversity
  Sidebar: PISCO and the MLPA
  Sidebar: The UC Nature role in California’s protected environments
• Dedication ceremony for Sagehen experimental forest links UC Reserve System with nationwide network
• Wide range of UC classes take to the wild with meaningful results
• New director at Sedgwick Reserve bears watching
• UC Nature announces 2006-07 grad student grant winners

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Vol. 24, No.1

(Spring 2006)

• Feature: Helping endangered species keep their footing on the slippery slope of the genetic bottleneck
• New study suggests one way to control invasive ants
• California beetles go online
• Chumash summer camp at Sedgwick Reserve realizing long-held dream of cultural revival
• UC Nature wraps another successful Mathias Symposium at Bodega Marine Reserve
• Gold company’s million-dollar endowment improves daily life at McLaughlin Reserve
• UC researcher perishes in an attempt to rescue two colleagues
• Sagehen Creek Field Station oral histories available online

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Vol. 23, No.2

(Autumn 2005)

• Feature: New laser-mapping technology enables aerial ground truthing
• Marine biologist Dan Costa at the TOPP of his game
• Teens learn leadership and literacy in the Sierras at Sagehen Creek Field Station
• Kids star in bug video produced at Valentine Reserve
• Sedgwick Reserve celebrates new all-green science center

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Vol. 23, No.1

(Spring 2005)

• Feature: Of mice and (wo)men — Retirement just means more time for research
• Ultrasonic mouse talk discovered at Hastings
• Young readers in L.A. learn science through art
• Bodega algae become art
• Director of Motte, Emerson, and Box Spring retires
• 2004-05 Mathias winners

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Vol. 22, No.2

(Summer 2004)

• Feature: Sagehen Creek Field Station becomes the 35th UC Nature reserve!
• Sagehen brings a half century of history and scientific data to the UC reserve system
• The Leopold years (1965-1978) and beyond — Sagehen hits its stride after Starker takes charge
• Sagehen hosts two generations of “Bug Boot Camp”
• The fall—how Sagehen very nearly didn’t survive the 1990s
• Recovery and renaissance—how Sagehen lived to join the reserve system
• “Portfolio of reserves” available to Sagehen-based scientists

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Vol. 22, No.1

(Spring 2004)

• Feature: Field notes from underground reveal the true nature and extent of flora-fungi relations.
• The upper crust surviving nicely at UC Nature desert site
• A search for Hans Jenny awakens new appreciation for the legacy of this world-class soil scientist
• Old-growth reserve plans new-growth future
• The bad news and good news about Elliott Reserve
• Remote reserve set to welcome new on-site manager
• UC Nature desert reserve celebrates its first quarter of a century and an UC Nature elder
• Frank Pitelka, distinguished ecologist and longtime UC Nature scientist, academic, and administrator, dies at 87
• Clark Kerr, legendary UC president and UC Nature visionary, dies at 92
• UC Reserve System premieres on UCTV channel

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Vol. 21, No.2

(Fall 2003)

• Feature: Man meets mollusk and learns size does matter, even in the intertidal zone
• Scientists at UC Nature coastal sites (tide)pool their knowledge
• Well-mentored, hands-on training at Bodega Marine Reserve gets careers started
• UC Nature reserve manager give his expertise to naming state’s marine managed areas
• National Areas Association honors UC Nature managers with both its 2003 annual awards

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Vol. 21, No.1

(Spring 2003)

• Feature: Bushwhacking 101 offers new take on age-old environmental problems
• When nature meets culture communication happens
• Marsh inspires unlimited projects and new perspectives
• Norris field quarter legacy at UCSC lives on
• Kids in Nature program takes grade-schoolers inside the out-of-doors
• State of California honors regional conservation partnership

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Vol. 20, No.3

(Winter 2002)

• Feature: Microbial observatories reveal lively little-known worlds beneath the surfaces of land and lake
• Innovative nesting program at Coal Oil Point Reserve proves great success
• Stunt Ranch Reserve looks forward to new facilities
• Field course students from Minnesota discover California ecology at UC Nature reserves

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Vol. 20, No.2

(Summer 2002)

• Feature: UC Nature research that revealed collapse of island fox population now focuses on halting species extinction
• First Mathias Symposium highlights 2000-01 winners
• CA Coastal Conservancy support initiates Phase II of San Joaquin Marsh Reserve restoration
• Legacy of 20th-century explorer Al A. Allanson enriches desert research

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Vol. 20, No.1

(Spring 2002)

• Feature: James Reserve places nature virtually at our fingertips
• Mother lode of DNA data mined at McLaughlin
• Ever-more-sophisticated technology reveals the secret lives of Año Nuevo elephant seals and sharks
• Super “ear” installed at Boyd Deep Canyon

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Vol. 19, No.2

(Winter 2001)

• Feature: Bioregional planning blooms in California’s Coachella Valley
• A Community unites in stewardship of the Carpinteria Salt Marsh
• Longtime reserve director Wayne Ferren charts a new course
• Multiple UC Nature reserves play important role in the identity of the Putah-Cache bioregion

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Vol. 19, No.1

(Spring 2001)

• Feature: Wartime challenges prepared one UC Nature founder for future environmental battles
• New UC Nature reserve: Field scientists can order “surf and turf” at the Kenneth S. Norris Rancho Marino Reserve—our 34th site
• Oak researchers at UC Nature sites plan how to protect an imperiled native habitat
• CA Coastal Conservancy helps two UC Nature reserves

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Vol. 18, No.2

(Winter 2000)

• Feature: A bird in the hand is worth … banding!
• Forest canopy access system being developed at Angelo
• Science teacher training program off to a good start
• Reserve-based research in atmospheric chemistry provides global insights
• Center for science education opens at Valentine Camp

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Vol. 18, No.1

(Summer 2000)

• Feature: The past is nonrenewable — natural reserves protect rich cultural resources
• Firsthand impressions of a Santa Cruz Island dig
• Archaeology sheds light on Big Creek mussel mystery
• Of mammoths and men picturing the past in the east Mojave Desert
• And a useful glossary of anthropology terms, too!

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Vol. 17, No.2

(Autumn/Winter 1999)

• Feature: From drudgery to discovery — the real life of field researchers
• CA lichens receive some long-overdue attention
• Bee behavior reveals the drawbacks of cooking up habitat from scratch
• Fish stocking becomes frog stalking in the high Sierra
• Millennium falcons get a lift from UC Nature reserves

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Vol. 17, No.1

(Spring/Summer 1999)

• Feature: UC Nature founding father took reserve system to the millennium
• UC Nature founder Ken Norris fondly remembered
• UC reserve system plays national stage at AAAS
• 1998-99 Mathias Student Research Grant awardees
• Angelo Reserve receives funding for new environmental sciences center

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Vol. 16, No.2

(Autumn / Winter 1998)

• Feature: Scientists at Sedgwick Reserve master the mysteries of mud
• Mud and its ways studied at Sedgwick
• Año Nuevo elephant seal pups struggle for survival
• Reserve staff across the system observe El Niño’s aftermaths

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Vol. 16, No.1

(Spring/Summer 1998)

• Feature: Science, art, and community service converge when kids meet in the Carpinteria Marsh “classroom”
• Carpinteria Marsh kids
• Multilevel outreach at SNARL/Valentine Camp
• Jepson Prairie docents
• Wilderness medicine at James San Jacinto Mountains
• Many, many thanks to the Packard Foundation!

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Vol. 15, No. 2

(Fall 1997)

• Feature: UC Nature welcomes new director
• Hastings scientists help make way for newts
• Santa Cruz Island home to nine newly listed plants
• Research takes root at Sedgwick Reserve

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Vol. 15, No.1

(Spring 1997)

• Feature: Cougars thrive as top predators
• “Research in art” focuses on Big Creek
• Fort Ord becomes newest UC Nature reserve
• North Fork lands available for study
• Rock art researchers celebrate Mojave

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Vol. 14, No. 2

(Fall 1996)

• Feature: Long-term research, monitoring call for long-range planning
• Marsh ecosystem monitoring
• Fire research and management
• Sustainable fishery
• Grassland restoration
• Island archaeology