On Saturday April 8th, approximately 20 people from El Portal and from the Bay Area braved the break in a late spring storm to take stock of the organisms that live just outside of Yosemite's western gate along the Merced River....
Read MoreManylabs is an open science space in San Francisco of which the California Center for Natural History holds a residency at. The Open House kicked off with two guest speakers as part of Science Salon:
Ben Novak, Lead Researcher at The Great Passenger Pigeon Comeback, "The Next Flight of the Passenger Pigeon"
Read MoreRain kept away a many people that had signed up for “Tardigrades and Friends: A Microbioblitz” at Quail Hollow Ranch County Park in Felton, CA on Sunday October 16th 2016, but it sure woke up the star of the event; Tardigrades. Water Bears, Moss Piglets and a number of other cutesy names are used to describe the inhabitants of the entire Phylum Tardigrada that contains at least a thousand species of these nearly indestructible denizens of the microworld...
Read MoreA large portion of the biological world is not accessible to us, because we live and operate in scales that barely overlap. Anyone familiar with the classic Eames brothers film “Powers of Ten” has a sense of this. Macro photography can be a gateway to seeing a few scales down ...
Read MoreFlowers, pollinators, and pollinator predators are out and about due to the recent warm weather. Learn about them and an upcoming walk with lepidopterist Liam O'Brien!
Read MoreA wall of feathers swooped up before the crowd as a flight of Rock Pigeons swam through the cool golden light of a mid-November afternoon like a frightened school of fish in the waters below. Tony Iwane, lead naturalist, instructed the onlookers to see if they could spot a bird of prey driving after the birds as a juvenile Red Shouldered Hawk has been reported recently in the area.
Read MoreTaji Allen and I led a group of 20 birders (some of whom were experienced birdwatchers and some of whom were doing it for the first time) on a Beginning Birding and Sunset walk on October 24th, at Oakland's Middle Harbor Shoreline Park.
Read MoreWith autumn here, a billion (!) birds are migrating along the Pacific Flyway, stopping to feed and refuel as they make their way south. San Francisco Bay estuary, with its miles of wetlands and abundance of sea life, is a popular stopover for our avian friends, and bay area birders are gearing up for another great season.
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