Botany Series: Advanced Plant IdentificationVanessa Stevens (Former Presidio Trust Biological Technician and current contractor for East Bay Municipal Water District) will lead this workshop focusing on the plant families Asteraceae, Cyperaceae, and Juncaceae. The lecture will briefly cover evolution and taxonomic relationships, recent reorganizational changes in the California Flora, and a brief overview of ...
California and the University of California are leaders in confronting one of the world's most complex and daunting issues: climate change. Three distinguished UC professors from across the University system will discuss how the UC and the state of California lead and plan to continue leading the world on a ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $20 General, Free for members, $7 Students
Speaker: Dr. Connie Rockosi is a faculty member at UC Santa Cruz and researcher at UCO/Lick Observatory.Her research is on how galaxies form. She spends much of her time observing stars in our Galaxy to find out what they can tell us about how the Milky Way formed. She is ...
How much do you know about moths - the hyperdiverse (mostly) nocturnal cousins of butterflies? In celebration of National Moth Week, we'll be hosting a Moth Ball at Quail Hollow Park in Santa Cruz to draw attention to the beauty, diversity, and ecological importance of moths. Quail Hollow is situated ...