Pictured: (Left) Jeff Holmquist, PhD, Researcher-UCLA jholmquist@ucla.edu (Right) Jutta Schmidt-Gengenbach, MS, Research Associate III- UCLA juttasg@ucla.edu Our research addresses questions concerning plant-animal interactions, landscape structure as a determinant of faunal...
Master’s student Peri Lee Pipkin, studying botany at the California Botanic Garden, has been working on compiling an inventory of all known plants in the Silver Peak mountain range of...
by James Yu, UC San Diego, 2023 WMRC Mini Grant Recipient This past summer, researchers from University of California, San Diego (Simonson Lab and Malhotra Lab) and University of California,...
by Diana Martinez, 2023 GLORIA Great Basin Fellow. Diana offers Spanish-English publication translation services. To inquire please email her at diamar@umich.edu Have you ever wondered what types of flower species...
Story and Photos by Kathy Pham University of California, Riverside, WMRC Mini-Grant 2022 Recipient This summer, I completed sample collection for my doctoral thesis, Effects of Hypoxia Exposure on Inflammatory...
by Martin Purdy, M.S. in Botany, Claremont University Fieldwork for my master’s thesis, A flora of Coyote Ridge and Flat, is now complete. The study area covers ca. 50 sq....
by Kaleb Goff and Brian Smithers, GLORIA Great Basin GLORIA (Global Observation Research Initiative in Alpine Environments) is a collaborative network with a shared methodology for surveying alpine summits across...
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...
Connecting diversity, phrenology and pollination services to determine the viability of plant and pollinator communities. I’m Elijah, a third year PhD student in the Rafferty Lab at UC Riverside. In...
Acute Mountain Sickness (AMS) is commonly seen when people venture over 2500m (8200ft) altitude. This illness is mainly is induced by an acute exposure to the low partial pressure of...