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Climate change and rising temperatures threatens ecological communities around the world. This one-hour documentary highlights multidisciplinary scientific research to study the impacts of global climate change being conducted at the NRS's Heath and Marjorie Angelo Coast Range Reserve in northern California. Mapping the Future was funded by a grant from the National Science Foundation. |
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Using laser mapping techniques, UC Berkeley professor Bill Dietrich is able to visualize the rugged terrain of Angelo Coast Range Reserve and reconstruct the history of its landforms. |
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Topographic maps of Angelo Coast Range Reserve are helping UC Berkeley professor Mary Power predict which species are major players in each segment of the watershed, and how changes in conditions such as flow speeds and water temperatures will affect species interactions in the future. |
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Professor Power's studies of the Eel River food web have uncovered a unique symbiotic relationship that is key to understanding the community's responses to shifts in tree cover. |
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Taking advantage of a system of canopy bridges and ladders, scientist Emily Limm monitors how temperature, humidity, and other conditions affect water use by trees at Angelo Coast Range Reserve. The information will help biologists forecast how the Douglas-firs and other trees will fare amid coming climatic conditions. |
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A hillside outfitted with groundwater sensors, sap flow meters, microclimate weather stations, and solar panels strapped to trees marks the site of the Keck HydroWatch project, where a team of UC Berkeley professors are analyzing the water cycle in unprecedented detail. Understanding how long a raindrop spends in subsurface rocks and soil before being uplifted into trees, or flowing out into streams, has tremendous implications for climate models and water management practices. |
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We all rely on the water cycle, but how does it actually work? Scientists at UC Berkeley are embarking on a new project to understand how global warming is affecting our fresh water supply. And they're doing it by tracking individual raindrops in Mendocino and north of Lake Tahoe. |
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Art students at CCA design ceramic nest burrows for the rhinoceros auklet colony at Año Nuevo Island.
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An introduction to UC Berkeley's Blue Oak Ranch Reserve. The oak woodlands and grasslands of this classic California landscape offer opportunities for intensive microclimate studies, research into regenerating oaks, and chances to introduce urban children to nature.
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What happens to the delicate larvae of ocean creatures when they're exposed to increasing acid levels in the ocean? That's the question marine biologists Eric Sanford of UC Davis and Steve Palumbi of Stanford are trying to answer through experiments with sea urchins from the NRS's Bodega Marine Reserve.
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The NRS's Bodega Marine Reserve gives UC Davis professor Eric Sanford access to the wild sea stars and mussels he studies to determine how climate change will affect ecosystems along the California coast.
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UC Davis graduate student Jill Bible teaches science, but she definitely enjoys the hands-on research she conducts at the UC Davis Bodega Marine Reseve/Lab.
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UC Davis graduate student Jill Bible teaches science, but she definitely enjoys the hands-on research she conducts at the UC Davis Bodega Marine Reseve/Lab.
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