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Apply for the 2024 La Kretz Center & Stunt Ranch Reserve Research Awards
UCLA undergraduate students, graduate students, and postdoctoral scientists are encouraged to apply. The deadline to submit is December 10th, 2023.
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Olivia Sanderfoot for The New York Times – Wildfires Impact on Birds
La Kretz Center Postdoctoral Researcher Olivia Sanderfoot discusses wildfire smokes impact on birds and how her community outreach project: Project Phoenix.
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Brad Shaffer for KQED — ‘Moonshot for Biology’ Aims to Sequence a Genome of Every Type of Plant and Animal on Earth
Director of UCLA La Kretz Center for California Conservation Science and professor of ecology and evolutionary biology Brad Shaffer discusses how scientists are racing against time to create a global…
Project Phoenix uses community science to learn how smog and smoke affect birds
All are invited to participate in new program from UCLA and Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
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Morgan Tingley and Olivia Sanderfoot for National Geographic — Wildfire smoke affects birds too. Here’s how you can help.
UCLA ecologist Morgan Tingley and postdoctoral fellow Olivia Sanderfoot discuss the effects of smoke exposure on North American birds during breeding season for National Geographic.
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Olivia Sanderfoot for the Popular Science — Clouds of wildfire smoke are toxic to humans and animals alike
UCLA La Kretz Center Postdoctoral Fellow Olivia Sanderfoot discusses the effects of wildfire smoke on animals, as well as her previous review in the journal Environmental Research Letters for Popular…
