The Fernandez Ranch located between Hercules and Martinez, California was acquired in 2005 by the John Muir Land Trust and opened to the public in 2008. The rolling hills, filled with oaks and bay trees make an ideal habitat for many of the Bay Area's well known mushrooms...
Read MoreOn our November 27th 2016 Myxomycete walk in Joaquin Miller Park in the Oakland hills, we found a wide variety of slime molds...
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 MoreDid you love drawing plants as a child? I remember sitting on the floor illustrating my version of nature, which invariably included a profile of a giant tree, blades of green grass, pink flowers dotting the landscape, and rounded mountains in the distance.
Read MoreIf you've never taken any natural history courses at Merritt College in Oakland, now's your chance!! Ron Felzer is offering a course on the ecology of the California Cascades & Mount Shasta, with an epic field session at the end. You can register for the class now!!!
Read MoreAs we increasingly rely on technology for communication, transportation, and entertainment, we simultaneously surrender our decisions as data to be collected by whoever is paying attention. What if we took that data-collecting power into our own hands, and organized observations in a way that could help living organisms and the future of life on planet Earth?
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