December 3, 2024 Giving Tuesday: 75th Anniversary Launch Online We begin our 75th Anniversary celebration by launching our new fundraising platform. Every donation, big or small, helps us support students and researchers and their scientific endeavors. Online donations can be made year round and in any dollar amount. If you wish to make larger donations please contact WMRC staff. To make an online donation… Continue reading Giving Tuesday: 75th Anniversary Launch
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 the public. Registration is required, please visit the provided URL. This talk will be recorded & posted to our YouTube channel at a later date. 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 free and open to the public. It will be recorded and posted to our YouTube channel at a later date. 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 of ‘Evolution in Action’ since the 1980s, when Dr. John Smiley (former WMRC station manager) and then graduate student Nathan Rank conducted experiments examining relationships… 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 to environmental change. Her research specifically focuses on that of the willow leaf beetle that dwells in the high Sierra Nevada. This event is free… 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