Category: News and Highlights
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Eyes on the Eel!
Some evening in June, July, or September, you may see a wet, tired crew of river ecologists eating burgers at The Peg Inn (Never don’t stop there!) or the Chimney Tree House in southern Humboldt. …
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Prof. Mary Power Speaks at USGS Pacific Regional Colloquium
Angelo Academic Director, Mary Power, gave a webcast at the US Geological Survey’s Pacific Regional Colloquium on September 14, 2015. The talk was titled “The Thirsty Eel: Drough Imapcs on Salmon and Cyanobacteria in River…
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Angelo and Eel River CZO on local radio
We were very pleased and grateful for an audio report from Berkeley undergrad Sohil story about his experience at the Angelo this summer. His grad student mentor Suzanne Kelson reports “His story was chosen by…
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Climate extremes and the Critical Zone
As people who had planned to live ordinary lives face early-onset climate change, we are discovering that it not the change in average temperature or precipitation, but the extremes that will change our future. In…
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Phil G encounters invaders in Hunter’s Pool, just downstream from Angelo
Phil Georgakakos sent these photos yesterday of two invaders–the red swamp crayfish, Procambarus clarkii, and bullheads tentatively identified by Mary Power as black bullheads, Ictalurus melas. (It may be a brown bullhead, check out the…
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Eel River Algal Foray 2015
On June 12-14, 2015, the Angelo Reserve was the site of another wonderful Eel River Algal Foray. Algal experts Dr. Paula Furey and Professors Rex Lowe and Yvonne Vadeboncoeur came out from Minnesota, Wisconsin, and…
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A new crayfish may be invading the Eel, unfortunately.
On March 14 2015, Mary Power found a new crayfish in the South Fork Eel River, just north of the Angelo Coast Range Reserve on the eastern edge of the first pool below confluence of…
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Ring necked snakes
Ring necked snakes are brown on top, except for an orange ring, right behind their heads. Do snakes have necks? But underneath (ventral side), ring-necks are right orange. In a defense display, this snake is…
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Landscapes of Food and Fear–field ecology short course planned
On March 13-15 2015, Joel Brown (University of Illinois, Chicago), Jim Estes (UC Santa Cruz), and Justin Brashares and Mary Power (UC Berkeley) and five graduate students from the Power and the Brashares labs got…
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A new crayfish invading the Eel?
On March 14 2015, Mary Power and Phil Georgakakos found a new crayfish in the South Fork Eel River, just north of the Angelo Coast Range Reserve on the eastern edge of the first pool…