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Weldon, CA
The Grinnell resurvey project
is an effort to document changes in wildlife distribution
and habits in the 100 years since Joseph Grinnell,
co-founder of UC Berkeley's Museum of Vertebrate Zoology
first surveyed vertebrates in California. Thirteen field
investigators spent the better part of June housed at the
Audubon House on the Kern River Preserve's Sprague Ranch
addition while conducting field work throughout the Kern
River Valley.
Staff at the Kern River
Preserve will host more field crews as additional surveys
will be conducted through September of this year and then
again next spring as part of what are described by Grinnell
as the Whitney transects. This is the first of a multi-year
project to resurvey the route that Grinnell, Storer, Carr,
and Taylor traversed through this area
from 1911 to 1914. Surveys conducted
in other areas of California over the last few years by
other teams from UC Berkeley have already yielded
significant findings on the effects of global climate change
and other habitat changes on many species. Find published
results of the Lassen, Yosemite, White Mountains, Warner
Mountains, and San Jacinto Mountains on the Grinnell
Resurvey Project website:
http://mvz.berkeley.edu/Grinnell/index.html
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Grinnell Team Field Notes
Joseph Grinnell
Tracy Storer
Walter Taylor
H. A. Carr
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Carla Cicero, Curator of Birds at UC
Berkeley's Museum of Vertebrate Zoology
enjoys visiting with the Kern River
Preserve's own Southern Pacific Pond Turtle
research team and one of their charges. |
