December 2024
“Adaptive Capacity of California Oaks”
Kaili Brande / Brooke Rose
San Diego State University (CSU) / University of California, Santa Barbara
“Assessing the Determinants of Collective Behavior of Veromessor Harvester
Ants at the UCSB Sedgwick Reserve”
Sean O’Fallon
University of CA, Los Angeles
“Assessing the Effects of Climate on Tick Community Composition, Infection
Prevalence, and Human Risk of Tick-Borne Disease in California”
Andrew MacDonald
University of CA, Santa Barbara
“BEL Wildfire Resiliency Comms Project”
Izzy Sofio
University of CA, Santa Barbara
“Bioacoustic Monitoring of Tricolored Blackbird Colonies”
Wendy Shackowitz
Point Blue Conservation Science
“Breeding Bird Survey”
Mark Holmgren
University of CA, Santa Barbara
California Arthropods Book
Ivan Parr
The Western Section of The Wildlife Society
“California Ecosystem Resilience With Climate Change”
Anna Trugman
University of CA, Santa Barbara
“California Insect Barcoding Project”
Christopher Grinter
California Academy of Sciences, University of CA, Berkeley
“California Wetland Bee Microbiomes”
Jen Schlauch
University of California, Irvine
“Climate-tracking serpentine communities”
Andrea Nebhut
Stanford University
CNPS Vegetation Mapping- TNC
Kelly Easterday
The Nature Conservancy
“Conservation Management of Monarch Butterfly and Pollinator Communities
on Department of Defense Lands”
Samantha Bussan/Elizabeth Crone
Washington State University
“Demography of California Poppy”
Josepph Kesler/Elsa Cleland
University of CA, San Diego
“Effects of Environmental Variation on Evolution of Wing Polymorphic Crickets”
Caroline Williams
University of CA, Berkeley
“Environmental effect on rewetting dynamics in the soil microbiome”
Kyle Crocker / Seppe Kuehn
University of Chicago
“Evolutionary Ecology of Reptiles”
Amanda Sparkman
Westmont College/Auburn University
Female Preference Behavioral Assay in California Vole (Microtus Californicus)
Harrison Lin
University of California, Riverside
“Heat plume induced embolism in Quercus agrifolia from prescribed burning”
Shane Dewees/Leander Love-Anderegg/Max Moritz
University of CA, Santa Barbara/University of California Berkeley
“Herp Responses to a Prescribed Burn”
Hillary Young
University of CA, Santa Barbara/University Club of Santa Barbara/UCSB
Marine Science Institute/UCSB College of Letters & Science Information
Technology
“Higher Order Interactions”
Nathan Kraft/Jonathan Levine
University of CA, Los Angeles/Princeton University/University of CA, Davis
“Independent Project – California Native Bee Survey”
Alicia Fox
Allan Hancock College
“Independent Project – Pitfall Traps”
Alicia Fox
Allan Hancock College
“Long term monitoring of water stress of oaks”
Anna Jiselle Ongjoco
University of CA, Los Angeles/California State University, Los Angeles
“Mapping Oak Species Distribution in Southern California in Relation to Environmental Factors Using Imaging Spectroscopy and LiDAR”
Hsin-Ju Li
University of CA, Santa Barbara
“Measuring greenhouse gas emissions from prescribed fires using small drones“
Paul Laris
California State University (CSU), Long Beach
“Moore Grant – Meteorological Flux Tower “
Gert-Jan Duine/Leila Carvalho, Charles Jones
UCSB Earth Research Institute/University of CA, Santa Barbara/Scripps
Institution of Oceanography
“Movement Sketches”
Hope O’kere
University of California, Santa Barbara
“NASA Carbon Monitoring System”
Dar Roberts
University of CA, Santa Barbara / Oregon State University / University of Montana
“NASA SBG Pathfinder”
Frank Davis
La Kretz Research Center
“Performance-Dispersal Feedbacks”
Lauren Glevanik / Nathan Kraft
University of CA, Los Angeles
“Phenology of Flowering and Acorn Production in Quercus lobata on the
Sedgwick Reserve in the Figueroa Watershed”
Andy Lentz/Victoria Sork/Frank Davis
University of CA, Los Angeles/University of CA, Santa Barbara,
Dudek/California Polytechnic State University, Pomona/St. Mary’s High School
“Plant Flammability Testing”
Robert Fitch
University of CA, Santa Barbara
“Polaris: Low Frequency Experiment to Measure Polarized Galactic
Foreground Emission”
Air Kaplan
University of CA, Santa Barbara
“Post fire recon of Sedgwick Reserve”
Dar Roberts
University of CA, Santa Barbara
“Post-Fire Survey”
Carla D’Antonio
University of CA, Santa Barbara
“Post-Fire Time Lapse Photography”
Ethan Turpin
University of CA, Santa Barbara
“Post Wildfire Wildlife Photography Surveys”
Nikki Evans / Brenda Juarez
University of CA, Santa Barbara
“Prescribed Burn Data Collection”
Kalli Brande/Frank Davis
University of CA, Santa Barbara
“Prescribed Burn Novel Research”
Claire Stanford
Loyola Marymount University
“Reproductive Phenology of Valley Oaks (Quercus lobata)”
Walt Koenig
University of CA, Berkeley/University of Nebraska/Cornell University/University
of Vienna/Smithsonian Institution
“Santa Barbara County Oak Project”
Claudia Tyler/Bruce Mahall/Frank Davis
University of CA, Santa Barbara
“SDSU – NASA FireSense”
Dan Sousa
San Diego State University/The Nature Conservancy
“Scaling Science-Driven Vegetation Treatments for a Wildfire Resilient California”
Oscar Garcia Companys
University of California, Davis
“Sedgwick Floral Phenology”
Andy Lentz/Jack Ehmer/Tom Scafide
University of CA, Santa Barbara
“Sedgwick Seismic Array”
Zachary Elion
University of CA, Santa Barbara
“Senior Thesis”
Maddie Salinas
University of CA, Santa Barbara
“SHIFT Campaign Research”
Elsa Ordway
University of CA, Los Angeles/John Hopkins University/CA State University, Los
Angeles
“Soil Sampling”
Josh Schimel
University of CA, Santa Barbara
“Soils and Landscapes”
Oliver Chadwick
University of CA, Santa Barbara/Standford University
“Spectral Surveying”
Francisco Ochoa/Gregory S. Okin
University of CA, Los Angeles/Jet Propulsion Lab (California Institute of
Technology)
“Stream water sampling of Figueroa Creek”
Tamara Harms | John Melack
University of CA, Riverside/ University of CA, Santa Barbara
“Superband IR Test”
John Caulfield
University of Arizona
“Testing a phylogenetic trait framework for soil microbiome”
Jennifer Martiny
University of CA, Irvine
“The Birch Effect in Different Soils and Under Different Soil Moisture Regimes”
Liviu Iancu
UCSB Bren School/University of CA, Santa Barbara
“The Evolution of Viridiplantae Body Plans Viewed Through the Fossil Record and Molecular Biology”
Bruce Tiffney
University of CA, Santa Barbara
“The Mechanisms of Biodiversity Loss Due to Nitrification”
Johnathan Levine
Princeton University
“Thermal imagery collection for ML/DL training data”
Tim Wallace
Desert Research Institute
“Using Root Windows to Investigate Grazing Effects on Soil Organic
Carbon”
Jacob Weverka
UCSB Earth Research Institute/University of CA, Santa Barbara
“Vegetation Map – CNPS Survey & Classification at the Dangermond Preserve & Sedgwick Reserve“
Paul Excoffier / Julie Evens / Jennifer Buck-Diaz
California Native Plant Society
“Weekly Ornithology Survey”
Marge Erickson/Laura Baldwin/Brenda Juarez
University of CA, Santa Barbara
“Where’s the Bear: Automating Wildlife Image Processing Using loT and Edge
Cloud Systems”
Chandra Krintz/Rich Wolski
University of CA, Santa Barbara
“Wildlife Responses to Wildfire”
Grace Lewin / Hillary Young
University of CA, Santa Barbara