2025 Active Research at Sedgwick Reserve

Acoustic Bat Surveys on Sedgwick Reserve

Bill Haas

Central Coast Bat Survey


Aridland Catchment Chemistry after Wildfire Events

Shanthini Ode

University of California, Riverside


Assessing Post-fire Changes in Bird Community with Passive Bioacoustic Monitoring

Conor McMahon | Leonardo Salas

University of California, Santa Barbara 


Birch Effect in Different Soils and Under Different Soil Moisture Regimes

Liviu Iancu

UCSB Bren School of Environmental Science & Management | University of California, Santa Barbara | UCSB Marine Science Institute | Johns Hopkins University | Bren School of Environmental Science

California Ecosystem Resilience with Climate Change

Anna Trugman | Leander Love-Anderegg

University of California, Santa Barbara | University of California, Berkeley | Santa Barbara Focalplane | University of Utah | University of California, Davis | University of California, Santa Cruz | Western Sydney University | Universidad de Alcalá | none Santa Barbara | UCSB


California Endemism Book

Ivan Parr

Western Section of the Wildlife Society


California Native Bee Survey

Alicia Fox

Allan Hancock College


Climate-tracking serpentine communities

Andrea Nebhut

Stanford University | Carnegie Institute, Department of Global Ecology


Conservation and Management of Monarch Butterfly and Pollinator Communities on Department of Defense Lands

Elizabeth Crone | Cheryl Schultz

Washington State University | University of California, Davis | Tufts University


Conserving California Wildlife in the Age of Megafire

Kendall Calhoun

University of California, Los Angeles


Cycles of Renewal

Carlie Domingues | Teresa Romero

University of California, Davis | Native Coast Action Network | The Nature Conservancy


Demography of California Poppy

Elsa Cleland

University of California, San Diego | UC San Diego


Divalent Cation (Di-Cat) Soil Lithosequence

Heath Goertzen

University of California, Davis | University of California, Santa Barbara | UCSB | UCSB Bren School of Environmental Science & Management


Eco-evolutionary feedbacks in annual plants

Zach Gold | Jonathan Levine

Princeton University


Effects of environmental variation on evolution of wing polymorphic crickets

Caroline Williams | Kristi Montooth | Colin Meikeljohn | Lisa Treidel

University of California, Berkeley | University of Nebraska | Chinese Academy of Sciences | University of California, Merced | Appalachian State University | West High School | University of Washington | University of Oslo | University of Louisville | University of California, Santa Barbara | College of William and Mary


Evolutionary Ecology of Reptiles

Amanda Sparkman

Westmont College | Auburn University | Pennsylvania State University

Filling Gaps in Status and Conservation Needs of the Tricolored Blackbird in Southern California

Lori Hargrove

San Diego Natural History Museum


Geologic Nitrogen Inputs to Xeric Soils with Mammalian Bioturbation at Sedgwick Reserve

Iris Holzer

University of California, Santa Barbara


Heat plume induced embolism in Quercus agrifolia from prescribed burning

Shane Dewees | Leander Love-Anderegg | Max Mortiz

University of California, Santa Barbara | University of California, Berkeley | UCSB | University of Utah


Higher Order Interactions (2021-)

Nathan Kraft | Jonathan Levine
University of California, Santa Barbara | University Club of Santa Barbara | UCSB Marine Science Institute


Impact of Monarthrum and Pseudopityophthorus Bark Beetles on Varietal Oak Woodlands After Fire Events
Brooke Ryan
University of California, Santa Barbara


Impact of Monarthrum and Pseudopityophthorus Bark Beetles on Varietal Oak Woodlands After Fire Events
Brooke Ryan
University of California, Santa Barbara


Impacts of prescribed fire on oak recruitment
Shane Dewees
University of California, Santa Barbara


Incorporation of locally adapted photobionts (Trebouxia) influence on the distribution of cosmopolitan lichen Flavoparmelia caperata (Parmeliaceae)
Jeremy Howland
City University of New York


La Kretz Research Center
Frank Davis
Sedgwick Reserve


Long term monitoring of water stress of oaks

Anna Jiselle Ongjoco | Leander Love-Anderegg

University of California, Los Angeles | California State University (CSU), Los Angeles | University of California, Santa Barbara | Princeton University | University of Utah | UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability | University of Wisconsin – Madison


Moore grant – Meteorological flux tower

Gert-Jan Duine | Leila Carvalho | Charles Jones

UCSB Earth Research Institute | University of California, Santa Barbara | Scripps Institution of Oceanography


NASA Carbon Monitoring System

Dar Roberts

University of California, Santa Barbara | UCSB | US Forest Service | USDA Forest Service | Michigan Tech Research Institute


NASA Student Airborne Research Program

Dan Sousa

San Diego State University (CSU) | University of California, Los Angeles | University of California, Santa Barbara | NASA


Passive Pesticide Sampling in Monarch Breeding Habitat Using Silicone Bands

Haylie Wilcox | Elizabeth Crone | Cheryl Schultz

University of California, Davis | Washington State University


Performance-Dispersal Feedbacks

Lauren Glevanik | Nathan Kraft

University of California, Los Angeles


Personality/Life History Affect on Harvester Ant Colony Smoke Response

Bear Waymire | Noa Pinter-Wollman

UCLA | University of California, Los Angeles


Phenology of flowering and acorn production in Quercus lobata on the Sedgwick Reserve in the Figueroa watershed

Victoria Sork

University of California, Los Angeles | University of California, Santa Barbara | Dudek | California Polytechnic State University (CSU), Pomona | Other | St. Mary’s High School


Plant Bug Biodiversity in the California Floristic Province

Christiane Weirauch | Michael Forthman

University of California, Riverside | California Department of Food & Agriculture


Post-Fire Time-Lapse Photography

Ethan Turpin

Bren School of Environmental Science


Post fire survey

Carla D’Antonio

University of California Santa Barbara


Project MALADPT: Oak common garden project

Leander Love-Anderegg | Frank Davis | Victoria Sork

University of California, Santa Barbara | University of California, Los Angeles


Quantifying Nutrient Cycling Properties of Coast Live Oak Populations at Sedgwick Reserve

Chris Hyder

University of California, Santa Barbara


Reducing Ignition Potential Through Ignition-Prone Area Restoration

Robert Fitch 

University of California, Santa Barbara


Scaling Science-Driven Vegetation Treatments for a Wildfire Resilient California

Oscar Garcia Companys

University of California, Davis


Santa Barbara County Oak Project

Claudia Tyler | Bruce Mahall | Frank Davis

University of California, Santa Barbara


Sage scrub seedbanks and fire

Carla D’Antonio

University of California, Santa Barbara


Scrub-Jay caching behavior & Post-fire recovery

James Mouton

Ohio State University


SDSU – NASA FireSense

Dan Sousa

San Diego State University (CSU) | The Nature Conservancy | NASA


Serpentine influence on plants and streams

Piper Lovegreen

University of California Santa Barbara


Soil Ecology in Droughted Grasslands

Brooke Wainwright | Ava-Rose Beech | Morgan Harper

University of California, Davis


Soils and Landscape

Oliver Chadwick

University of California Santa Barbara


Soil transport of nitrogen and phosphorus following fire retardant application

Iris Holzer

University of California, Santa Barbara


Spectral Surveying

Francisco Ochoa | Gregory S. Okinc

University of California, Los Angeles | Jet Propulsion Laboratory (California Institute of Technology) | University of California, Santa Barbara | University of Wisconsin – Madison | San Diego State University (CSU) | UCLA | The University of Texas at Austin

Spectrophotometric Observations of Recurrent Nova T CrB

David Gay

University of California, Santa Barbara


Subsurface Influence on Plant Traits

Piper Lovegreen

University of California, Santa Barbara


Supporting recovery of Yellow-billed Magpie on California’s Central Coast

Gregor Yanega

California Central Coast Joint Venture


Tech Transfer – Fire disturbance recovery

Sam Prentice

US Forest Service


Thermal Tolerance and Water Use Strategies in Oaks

Scott Mauffet-Smith

University of California, Santa Barbara


UC NRS Community-egaged pilot project: fuels management for climate enhanced fire risk reduction.

Anthony Westerling | Karen Shapiro | Rich Applebaum

University of California, Merced | UCSB | University of California, Santa Barbara


Unseen California

Lacey Lennon

University of California, Santa Cruz 


Valley oak seedling competition with near neighbors

Claudia Tyler | Shelly Cole

University of California, Santa Barbara


Weekly ornithology survey

Laura Baldwin | Brenda Juarez

Sedgwick Reserve


Weekly phenological survey

Andy Lentz

Sedgwick Reserve


Wildlife Sensing and Monitoring with WiFi signals

Yasamin Mostofi

 University of California, Santa Barbara


Wildlife Use of Burned vs Unburned CCS

Hillary Young

University of California, Santa Barbara


Where’s The Bear (WTB): Automating Wildlife Image Processing Using IoT and Edge Cloud Systems

Chandra Krintz | Rich Wolski

University of California, Santa Barbara