February 25 @ 6:00 pm - 8:30 pm WMRC Lecture Series: Why is Alpine gold (Hulsea algida) sticky? Insects trapped in glandular trichomes of a showy high alpine aster. Online Zoe Wood, UC Davis PhD student, and 2024 WMRC Mini-Grant recipient will be discussing her research on the glandular alpine plant Hulsea algida. This event is free & open to… Continue reading WMRC Lecture Series: Why is Alpine gold (Hulsea algida) sticky? Insects trapped in glandular trichomes of a showy high alpine aster. FREE
March 13 @ 6:00 pm - 8:30 pm WMRC Lecture Series:100 Years of Piper v Big Pine-The Alice Piper Story with Sage Romero Owens Valley Station 3000 E Line St., Bishop, CA, United States Join Big Pine Paiute tribal member Sage Romero as he discusses the Piper v Big Pine case that set the precedent for Brown v Board of Education. This event is… Continue reading WMRC Lecture Series:100 Years of Piper v Big Pine-The Alice Piper Story with Sage Romero FREE
March 18 @ 6:00 pm - 8:30 pm WMRC Lecture Series: Insect population ecology in the Sierra Nevada- a 40 year perspective with Dr. Nathan Rank Owens Valley Station 3000 E Line St., Bishop, CA, United States The willow leaf beetle Chrysomela aeneicollis lives at high altitude in the South-central Sierra Nevada, from near Mount Whitney to Yosemite. This California insect has been the focus of studies… Continue reading WMRC Lecture Series: Insect population ecology in the Sierra Nevada- a 40 year perspective with Dr. Nathan Rank FREE
March 20 @ 6:00 pm - 8:30 pm WMRC Lecture Series: Getting chased up the mountain- life at high elevation in the face of environmental change with Dr. Elizabeth Dahlhoff Owens Valley Station 3000 E Line St., Bishop, CA, United States Elizabeth Dahlhoff, Professor of Biology at Santa Clara University and colleague of Nathan Rank, will discuss her long-term research on examining physiological, biochemical, and molecular mechanisms by which animals respond… Continue reading WMRC Lecture Series: Getting chased up the mountain- life at high elevation in the face of environmental change with Dr. Elizabeth Dahlhoff FREE
April 10 @ 6:00 pm - 8:30 pm WMRC Lecture Series: The Inyo-White Mountains Cambrian Explosion Owens Valley Station 3000 E Line St., Bishop, CA, United States Bill Krebs, UCLA & WMRC alumni will be presenting on the Cambrian fossil history of the White Mountains. The Cambrian Explosion was a seminal event in the history of life… Continue reading WMRC Lecture Series: The Inyo-White Mountains Cambrian Explosion FREE
April 17 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm WMRC Lecture Series: Five Decades of Long-Term Research on Bighorn Sheep Owens Valley Station 3000 E Line St., Bishop, CA, United States Some fundamentally important questions concerning wildlife population biology can only be researched with long-term data sets, because each year is but a single data point. Early in my career, I… Continue reading WMRC Lecture Series: Five Decades of Long-Term Research on Bighorn Sheep FREE