Natural Reserves

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UCSC Big Creek Reserve landscape photo with poppies and pacific coast.

UCNRS Announcements

Applications are now open for the Summer 2020 offering of the UC Natural Reserve System field course, California Ecology and Conservation. Travel around California, learning about local ecology and conservation issues. Applications can be found here and are due on February 5, 2020!

Applications for the Field Science Fellowship are now open. Opportunities for undergrads and faculty/undergrad teams to get funding to do research at the UC Natural Reserves. More info here.

Natural Reserve News

October 3, 2019A new map of Living Labs at UCSC
September 3, 2019Younger Lagoon Reserve: An outdoor classroom for coastal research
August 22, 2019Researchers enlist citizen scientists to count animals on Año Nuevo Island

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Ruins on Año Nuevo Island, UCSC Año Nuevo Natural Reserve

Students and community members convene at the start of UCSC Alumni Weekend Bioblitz

A bobcat gets a better view from a fence at UCSC Younger Lagoon Reserve

A UCSC Campus Natural Reserve Continuous Forestry Inventory crew poses on their last internship work day

Undergraduate intern builds restoration fencing at UCSC Younger Lagoon Reserve

Divers on a transect in the kelp forest at UCSC Landels-Hill Big Creek Natural Reserve

Students at UCSC Fort Ord Natural Reserve

Zero emission work vehicle at UCSC Younger Lagoon Natural Reserve

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