Presented by the following GLORIA GB members: Brian Smithers, Jim Bishop, Jan Nachlinger, Seema Shelth, and Kaleb Goff. GLORIA Great Basin is a non-profit organization, supporting an international mission to assess global changes in composition and distribution of alpine flora in a changing climate. They collect, manage, and disseminate the data for field sites in...

Join Big Pine Paiute tribal member and Akamya Cultural Group Director Sage Romero as he discusses the legacy of Alice Piper and the Piper v Big Pine case that set the precedent for Brown v Board of Education. PLEASE SEE THE INFORMATION BELOW FOR THE LOCATION. This event is free and open to the public....

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. PLEASE SEE THE INFORMATION...

Bill Krebs, UCLA & WMRC alumna will be presenting on the Cambrian fossil history of the White Mountains. The Cambrian Explosion was a seminal event in the history of life on Earth. It occurred ~ 541 mya at the beginning of the Cambrian Period and is characterized by the first appearance of abundant mineralized invertebrates,...

Presented by John D. Wehausen, Ph.D., retired WMRC research scientist. The Owens Valley is unique in having different subspecies of bighorn sheep on each side. This talk will put our local bighorn sheep into a much larger context of the evolution of all wild sheep in North America, including when different forms appeared. It will...