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BNHM Graduate Becca Carter Featured on CNN for her work with the Prison University Project
BNHM Graduate Student Becca Carter was recently interviewed by CNN for her work as a volunteer teacher at San Quentin Prison. In the interview, Ms. Carter talks about the positive influence education can have in reforming the lives of prisoners.
See the video on the CNN website and Becca Carter's website
(posted on September 4th, 2008)
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Blue Oak Ranch Reserve Officially Open for Business
The latest addition to the UC Natural Reserve System and Berkeley Natural History Museums, Blue Oak Ranch Reserve, was gifted to the University last December. It comprises 3,260 acres of ecologically diverse oak woodland savanna situated on the west slope of Mt Hamilton between the city of San Jose and Joseph Grant County Park. Reserve Director Mike Hamilton has already installed a new wireless network to provide virtual access to real-time environmental sensors, a user-controllable webcam, and the capacity to support future wireless connections to networked instrumentation throughout the reserves ecosystems.
See the Blue Oak Ranch Reserve Website.
(posted on August 21st, 2008)
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Herbarium Data Used to Project the Effects of Climate Change
David Ackerly, Curator of Ecology at UC/JEPS and Professor of Integrative Biology, was the leader of a team that analyzed current distributions of over 2,000 California endemic plants based on data from the Consortium of California Herbaria and the Jepson Flora Project. The team projected these distributions into the future under various climate change models, and discovered that many of these species are in great danger unless they can move to new localities with appropriate climate.
See the UC Berkeley Press Release
(posted on June 25th, 2008)
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