UCLA researchers studying how the Woolsey fire affects plant and animal recovery
Teams will monitor burn areas in the Santa Monica Mountains examining effects throughout the food chain
Topical Tag: Conservation
The Magazine
Solving the ‘green wine puzzle’ (Video)
Eco-friendly wines taste better, but they don’t command higher prices in the marketplace. Learn why from UCLA professor Magali Delmas and Bonterra Organic Vineyards
White Mountain Research Center offers a range of scientific possibilities (Video)
With 5,000 year-old pine trees, 10,000 feet of elevation and an abundance of animal and insect species, the four field stations of the White Mountain Research Center are prime territory to learn about California’s natural environment — from climate change ecology to how people are affected by high altitudes. For students, the center offers a...
Events
Special Event
2019 Conservation Genomics Workshop
UCLA La Kretz Center for California Conservation Science
3.23.2019
This annual workshop provides a comfortable, informal training environment for a small group of 20 motivated graduate students to explore how conservation problems can best be addressed with genomic-level data. Our goal is to provide hands-on experience in the efficient collection, troubleshooting, and analysis of large, genome-level data sets for conservation-relevant problems. We focus specifically...
Special Event
RISING SEAS: JELLYFISH JERKY
A CAMPUS TASTING EVENT
11.14.2018
Join artist Marina Zurkow and chefs Hank and Bean for a climate change conversation over Jellyfish Jerky and an environmental risk Mitigating Tea at their Rising Seas Hawker Stall. On your way to and from classes, meetings and daily life, we invite you to take a snack break that brings the scale and data of...
Lecture Series
Life on the Move | Los Angeles, A Migration Haven
2018 Fall Lecture Series
11.1.2018
Life on the Move Lecture Series All plants and animals, including humans, move during their lifetimes, but some take truly harrowing or magnificent journeys to new lands and habitats. This Fall, the La Brea Tar Pits and Museum will join the UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability to produce a three-night conversation between the people of...
People
Projects
Bouncing Back: Enabling our student workforce to document post-fire ecological recovery of the Santa Monica Mountains
On November 8th, 2018 the Woolsey fire swept across the Santa Monica Mountains. It claimed 96,949 acres of undeveloped land in the mountains, making it the most extensive fire ever recorded in the region. 1,643 structures were lost, and the ecological and environmental impacts on the flora and fauna of the Santa Monica Mountains are...
Intestinal pathogen surveillance in Los Angeles region mammals
2018-2019 La Kretz Center Graduate Research and Stunt Ranch Reserve Combined Grant
Post-fire impact on biological community of coastal lagoons in southern California
2018-2019 La Kretz Center Graduate Research and Stunt Ranch Reserve Combined Grant
Publications
Political & Economic Drivers of Wildland-urban Interface (WUI) Development in California
S. Kennedy, S. Pincetl
Presentation | 2018
Repeated mowing to restore remnant native grasslands invaded by nonnative annual grasses: upsides and downsides above and below ground
Justin M. Valliere, Susan Balch, Carole Bell, Carlos Contreras, Bridget E. Hilbig
Published Work | 2018 | Restoration Ecology
Assessing effects of nonnative crayfish on mosquito survival
Gary M. Bucciarelli, Daniel Suh, Avery Davis Lamb, Dave Roberts, Debra Sharpton, H. Bradley Shaffer, Robert N. Fisher, Lee B. Kats
Published Work | 2018 | Conservation Biology
In the News
Headline
1.29.2019
Headline
1.24.2019
Ten UCLA student conservation projects funded through the La Kretz Center/Stunt Ranch Reserve Small Grant Program
The UCLA La Kretz Center for California Conservation Science and the UC Natural Reserve System Stunt Ranch Santa Monica Mountains Reserve are pleased to announce this year’s grant recipients for our competitive research awards. Our ten awardees, working on projects ranging from urban wildlife biodiversity to post-fire impacts on coastal lagoons, each contribute to our...
Headline
11.19.2018
Research building burns down in the Woolsey fire
The structure was the cornerstone of a UCLA conservation science center.
Video
Open for business in the Congo rainforest
Recently, crew of college students from UCLA and Cameroon left convenience behind and plunged into the rainforest. Their objective: reopen a field station that had been shuttered for two decades, while taking the pulse of local wildlife. Through their efforts and a project from UCLA’s Congo Basin Institute, the Bouamir research station is again open...
Biodiversity in 2050 LA
H. Bradley Shaffer, Director, La Kretz Center; Professor, UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability
La Kretz Center Discussion: Life in the L.A. River
A discussion presented in partnership with the Los Angeles County Natural History Museum With the imminent revitalization of the L.A. River, the city’s landscape is about to transform. But how will the restoration project impact life in and around the river? In partnership with the UCLA La Kretz Center for California Conservation Science, the Natural...