Mathias Research Projects

1. Year: 2012-2013
   Reserves Used: Kenneth S. Norris Rancho Marino Reserve and Scripps Coastal Reserve
   Research Title: The role of long-distance dispersal via kelp rafting in establishing marine phylogeographic patterns
   Researcher: Lauren Schiebelhut
   UC Campus: UC Merced
   
   
2. Year: 2009-2010
   Reserves Used: Scripps Coastal Reserve
   Research Title: Summer Irrigation Pulses: An Investigation of Restoration Methods for Invaded Coastal Sage Scrub Communities
   Researcher: Claire Wainwright
   UC Campus: UC San Diego
   
   
3. Year: 2009-2010
   Reserves Used: All Reserves in the System
   Research Title: A Visual Survey; photographic study of the University of California Natural Reserve System
   Researcher: Christopher Woodcock
   UC Campus: UC Davis
   
   
4. Year: 2007-2008
   Reserves Used: Bodega Marine Reserve,Scripps Coastal Reserve
   Research Title: Evolutionary response to climate change? Factors controlling among and within pool genetic variance for thermal tolerance in the intertidal copepod Tigriopus californicus
   Researcher: Morgan Kelly
   UC Campus: UC Davis
   
   
5. Year: 2003-2004
   Reserves Used: Bodega Marine Reserve, Landels-Hill Big Creek Reserve, Kenneth S. Norris Rancho Marino Reserve, Coal Oil Point Natural Reserve, Santa Cruz Island Reserve, Scripps Coastal Reserve
   Research Title: Morphological and ecological divergence of the intertidal kelp, Egregia menziesii (Tuner) Areschoug
   Researcher: Sarah K. Henkel
   UC Campus: UC Santa Barbara
   
   
6. Year: 2002-2003
   Reserves Used: Kendall-Frost Mission Bay Marsh Reserve, Scripps Coastal Reserve, Stunt Ranch Santa Monica Mountains Reserve
   Research Title: Gender dimorphism on the background of self-incompatibility in Lycium californicum (Solanaceae)
   Researcher: Boris Igic
   UC Campus: UC San Diego
   
   
7. Year: 2001-2002
   Reserves Used: Scripps Coastal Reserve
   Research Title: The near-shore marine fish assemblage of the Scripps Coastal Reserve
   Researcher: Matthew Craig
   UC Campus: UC San Diego
   
   
8. Year: 1997-1998
   Reserves Used: Scripps Coastal Reserve, the Elliott Chaparral Reserve, and the Boyd Deep Canyon Desert Research Center
   Research Title: The production and consumption of methyl bromide and methyl chloride by the terrestrial biosphere
   Researcher: Robert Rhew
   UC Campus: UC San Diego
   
   
9. Year: 1997-1998
   Reserves Used: Scripps Coastal Reserve
   Research Title: recruitment Pattern and Process: Mechanisms of Habitat Partitioning in Sympatric Intertidal fishes
   Researcher: Jana Davis
   UC Campus: UC San Diego
   
   
10. Year: 1993-1994
    Reserves Used: Scripps Coastal Reserve, Dawson Los Monos Canyon Reserve, and Elliot Chaparral Reserve
    Research Title: Phylogenetic analysis of the Nearctic species of the ant genus Messor and its application to various aspects of their biology
    Researcher: Melissa Bennett
    UC Campus: UC Davis
    
    
11. Year: 1991-1992
    Reserves Used: Scripps Coastal Reserve
    Research Title: Coarse and meso-scale patterns of settlementi n the barnacle Chtamalus spp
    Researcher: Jesus Pineda
    UC Campus: UC San Diego