CTR researchers report on a study exploring cryptic diversity with Indian and Pacific Ocean Big Fin Reef Squids and workshops held focused on building the capacity to control animal-borne influenza in Cameroon and Egypt.
The Education for Sustainable Living Program hosts seminars and screenings on sustainability issues.
The Institute of the Environment and Sustainability (IoES) will assume management of the White Mountains Research Station (WMRS). WMRS is a full service field station with room, board, lab, and…
by Kristen Ruegg, Ph.D., Research Associate, University of California, Santa Cruz and Senior Research Fellow, Center for Tropical Research, Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, UCLA
The Daily Bruin featured an article about the student group's initiative that educates kids about nutrition and sustainable food production through garden projects.
Amphibian expert Brad Shaffer is watching a battle for survival between the endangered California-native tiger salamander and its larger, non-native "cousin," brought in in the 1950s from Texas
Originally published by Itak Moradi in the Daily Bruin An archery range and a clubhouse on the Hill? Sounds cool enough. Until you realize that UCLA Capital Programs is considering this…
CTR researchers report on a study tracking migratory songbirds and field research on seed dispersal of a tropical tree in Ecuador
by Stephanie Steele, Graduate Student, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Center for Tropical Research, Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, UCLA
UCLA life scientists and their colleagues have discovered the first evidence of the H1N1 virus in animals in Africa. In one village in northern Cameroon, a staggering 89 percent of the pigs studied had been exposed to the H1N1 virus, commonly known as the swine flu.
CTR researchers investigate stripe variation in the African plains zebra and monkeypox transmission in the Congo Basin.
by Trevon Fuller, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Scholar, Center for Tropical Research, Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, UCLA
Watch presentation highlights plus a one-on-one interview with Center for Tropical Research (CTR) Director Tom Smith and CTR Africa Director Kevin Njabo.
Environmental Science major Nancy Tu is the new scholarship recipient.
UCLA joins a a strategic alliance of 11 major universities in southern California dedicated to advancing ocean studies.
Q&A with Dr. Paul Anastas, Assistant Administrator for the Office of Research and Development and Science Advisor to the United States Environmental Protection Agency.
Dear Friends, Our feature article in this Fall’s CTR Newsletter, by Adam Freedman, discusses CTR’s efforts to understand the implications of losing ecological gradients. While the impacts of habitat destruction…
An endowment from business leader Tony Pritzker will stregthen the Institute of the Environment's undergraduate academic program.
Dear Friends, The associated researchers of CTR continue to explore exciting research projects around the globe on a range of biodiversity, disease, and conservation issues. We are making significant progress…
IoE Professor Magali Delmas studies the economics of eco-labels for California wines.
Southern California is 'ground zero' for conservation in the 21st century
Dear Friends of CTR, Despite the financial cutbacks faced by the University of California, the researchers at CTR continue to make great progress on a range of exciting projects. These…
Dear Friends of CTR, During the current global economic crisis that is affecting the livelihoods of so many people, we need to continue to serve as guardians of our planet’s…