December 2023
“Acoustic Monitoring with AudioMoths in the SHIFT SBG Campaign Footprint to
Monitor Riparian Birds”
Conor McMahon
University of CA, Santa Barbara
“Air Samples During TREX Prescribed Burn”
Michael Morrison
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
“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
“AVRIS-NG Plant Disease Validation”
Kaitlin Gold
Cornell University/Jet Propulsion Lab (California Institute of Technology)
“Bioacoustic Monitoring of Tricolored Blackbird Colonies”
Wendy Shackowitz
Point Blue Conservation Science
“CALeDNA Wildfire Risk: Pre-Fire Season Soil Sampling”
Rachel Meyer
University of CA, Santa Cruz
“California Ecosystem Resilience With Climate Change”
Anna Trugman
University of CA, Santa Barbara
“California Insect Barcode Initiative: Snapshot Collecting”
Austin Baker
Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
“California Insect Barcoding Project”
Christopher Grinter
California Academy of Sciences, University of CA, Berkeley
“California Lepidoptera Survey”
Christopher Grinter
California Academy of Sciences, University of CA, Berkeley
“CDFW Snake Fungal Disease and Ophidiomyces Ophiodiicola Surveillance in
California”
Raquel Elander
CA Department of Fish and Wildlife
“Climate Sensitivity and Source Water Use by Riparian Groundwater
Dependent Ecosystems in Coastal California”
John Stella
SUNY – Environmental Science and Forestry/University of CA, Santa Barbara
“Coastal California Sonic Ecology”
Lucian Parisi
University of CA, Santa Barbara
“Comparative phylogeography of lace lichen (Ramalina
menziesii)”
Jacqueline Holmes
University of CA, Los Angeles
“Conservation Genomic Studies of CA populations of Blue Oak and Coast
Live Oak”
Ryan Buck
University of CA, Los Angeles
“Conservation Management of Monarch Butterfly and Pollinator Communities
on Department of Defense Lands”
Samantha Bussan/Elizabeth Crone
Washington State University
“Courtship Evolution of the Habronattus Tarsalis Species Group”
Sean Kelly
University of CA, Riverside
“Demography of California Poppy”
Josepph Kesler/Elsa Cleland
University of CA, San Diego
“Developing Agent Based Models of Two Beetle Species for Habitat
Management”
Rennie McIntosh
Purdue University
“Drivers of Ticks and Tick-Borne Pathogens in CA”
Kacie Ring
University of CA, Santa Barbara
“Effects of Environmental Variation on Evolution of Wing Polymorphic Crickets”
Caroline Williams
University of CA, Berkeley
“Evolutionary Ecology of Reptiles”
Amanda Sparkman
Westmont College/Auburn University
“Fire Severity and Soil Seed Banks”
Robert Fitch
University of CA, Santa Barbara
“Flower Color Variation in Leptosiphon Parviflorus”
Dana Grossenbacher
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
“Grassland Drought Strategies”
Jennifer Funk
University of CA, Davis
“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
“Hyperspectral image collection”
Kuncho Xu
University of CA, Irvine
“INaturalist bioblitz”
Ivan Parr
Western Section of the Wildlife Society/University of California Berkeley
“Independent Project – California Native Bee Survey”
Alicia Fox
Allan Hancock College
“Independent Project – Pitfall Traps”
Alicia Fox
Allan Hancock College
“Installation Art About Serpentine and Serpentine Barren”
Ayla Gizlice
University of CA, Los Angeles
“Long term monitoring of water stress of oaks”
Anna Jiselle Ongjoco
University of CA, Los Angeles/California State University, Los Angeles
“Mapping genetic diversity and responses to selection across California in
three butterfly species”
Jayme Lewthaite/Melissa Guzman
University of Southern California/Columbia University
“Mapping Plant Functional Diversity Using Remote Sensing”
Dar Roberts
University of CA, Santa Barbara
“Monitoring Rangelands for Multiple Ecosystem Benefits in an Era of Changing
Climate”
Royce Larsen/Matthew Shapero/Frank Davis
University of CA, Santa Barbara/University of CA, Division of Agriculture and
Natural Resources/UC ANR Santa Barbara County Cooperative
Extension/UCSB Earth Research Institute/UC ANR/University of California, Davis
“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
“NASA SBG Pathfinder”
Frank Davis
La Kretz Research Center
“Oak Bark Allometry”
Kaili Brande
University of CA, Santa Barbara
“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
“Pilot Measurements – Measuring Moisture Gradients Across Wood Vegetation
in Semi-Arid Landscapes with Image Data”
Marc Mayes/Kelly Caylor/ /Farai Kaseke
University of CA, Santa Barbara/Santa Barbara County Land Trust/Santa
Barbara City College/Brown University/Cate School/California Institute of
Technology/University of Utah/Santa Barbara Focalplane
“Plant Flammability Testing”
Robert Fitch
University of CA, Santa Barbara
“Plant Life History Traits at Home and Abroad”
Alejandro Trillo
University of CA, Davis
“Polaris: Low Frequency Experiment to Measure Polarized Galactic
Foreground Emission”
Air Kaplan
University of CA, Santa Barbara
“Post-Fire Time Lapse Photography”
Ethan Turpin
Bren School of Environmental Science
“Prescribed Burn Data Collection”
Kalli Brande/Frank Davis
University of CA, Santa Barbara
“Remote Sensing of Rangeland Forage Production and RDM
Levels”
Matthew Shapiro
UC ANR Santa Barbara County Cooperative Extension/University of CA, Davis
“Reproductive Phenology of Valley Oaks (Quercus lobata)”
Walt Koenig
University of CA, Berkeley/University of Nebraska/Cornell University/University
of Vienna/Smithsonian Institution
“Sampling to Create a Reference Genome for Valley Oak”
Victoria Sork
University of CA, Los Angeles
“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
“Sedgwick Floral and AviFauna Phenology”
Andy Lentz/Jack Ehmer/Tom Scafide
University of CA, Santa Barbara
“Sedgwick Seismic Array”
Zachary Elion
University of CA, Santa Barbara
“SHIFT Campaign Research”
Elsa Ordway
University of CA, Los Angeles/John Hopkins University/CA State University, Los
Angeles
“SHIFT Campaign Research”
Nidhi Vinod
University of CA, Los Angeles
“Spectral Surveying”
Francisco Ochoa/Gregory S. Okin
University of CA, Los Angeles/Jet Propulsion Lab (California Institute of
Technology)
“Sundowner Winds Experiment (SWEX)”
Leila Carvalho/Loren White/Brown Brown and Alison Rockwell
University of CA, Santa Barbara/NCAR/Jackson State University/National
Center for Atmospheric Research/University of Notre Dame/UCSB Earth
Research Institute
“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 Effect of Competition on Plant Species’ Distributions Across Spatial
Scales”
Kenji Hayashi/Nathan Kraft
University of CA, Los Angeles
“The Mechanisms of Biodiversity Loss Due to Nitrification”
Johnathan Levine
Princeton University
“The Role of Water Stress (drought) in Oak Seedling and Sapling Survival and
Performance at Sedgwick”
Claudia Tyler/Shelly Cole
University of CA, Santa Barbara
“Using Root Windows to Investigate Grazing Effects on Soil Organic
Carbon”
Jacob Weverka
UCSB Earth Research Institute/University of CA, Santa Barbara
“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