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

UCNRS Announcements

Field Courses

Applications for Fall 2019 BIO 82 and ENVS 15 are now open! Both classes are introductory 2-unit field-based natural history courses that do not require prior coursework or field work. First year and transfer students are encouraged to apply. More information here.

Applications for Spring 2020 California Ecology and Conservation supercourse is now open. This supercourse is UC-wide and takes you all around California during Spring Quarter. More information here.

Natural Reserve News

September 3, 2019Younger Lagoon Reserve: An outdoor classroom for coastal research
August 22, 2019Researchers enlist citizen scientists to count animals on Año Nuevo Island
March 5, 2019UCSC professor Michael Loik studies the effects of drought at numerous UC Natural Reserves

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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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