Collaboration: How do chaparral shrubs respond to and recover from heat waves?
La Kretz Center Postdoc Dr. Alex Pivovaroff works on looking at native species response to environmental change throughout the year.
Projects
Community Outreach
Our community outreach includes visiting schools, hosting groups for tours, mentorship, and research experience for high school students and teachers and members of the public.
Congo Basin Institute
As UCLA's first foreign affiliate, the Congo Basin Institute in Cameroon provides a vital space for training and scientific research in Africa.
Coral Reef Conservation
Region: Seas of the Coral Triangle (a region comprised of the Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia, East Timor, Papua New Guinea, and the Solomon Islands) Paul Barber is an affiliated faculty member of…
Creating a Complete Los Angeles River Greenway for All
Andy Pasillas, class of 2016 Andy had a leadership role on a project that is supporting the development of a complete and community-driven Los Angeles River greenway, especially in underserved…
Crustose coralline algae (CCA) as a facilitator species assemblage: investigating CCA’s role in structuring marine communities
Awardee: Emily Ryznar. Emily seeks to investigate the facilitative mechanisms and importance of CCA and its microbiome as contributors to increased invertebrate diversity and community stability in California’s rocky reefs.
Desert tortoise conservation
At the La Kretz Center, scientists are working toward a win-win between green energy and endangered species conservation in the Mojave Desert.
Developing a Soil Analysis and Remediation Toolkit for Landscape Construction and Management
Students: Lilian Chou, Kyle Gregory Kneeland, Alessandro Lorenzo Lallas, Kimberly See-Yan Mak, Victoria Suzanne Mcrae, Nicholas Chester Tom, Shiyi Zheng Client: Huntington Botanical Gardens and the Natural History Museum of…
Developing Ecosystem Indicators for Los Angeles County
Students: Danielle Nicole Alvarez, Connie Kang, Denise Lihan Lin, June Ngoc Tran, Tiffany Lee Wu Client: National Park Service, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, The Nature Conservancy Advisor:…
Developing Metrics to Evaluate the Skill and Credibility of Downscaling
Within the climate science community, a variety of techniques are used to "downscale" information from global climate models and produce fine-scale projections of future climate, but the relative strengths and weaknesses of these techniques are not well-understood. In this project, we are comparing downscaling techniques and establishing best practices.
Distribution Modeling Using Remote Sensing
In this research, species distribution modeling is used as a tool to understand the environmental determinants that control the distribution of species and to obtain spatial patterns on the species’…
Dja Reserve
For the past 20 years, we have been conducting research in the Dja Biosphere Reserve and adjacent areas. The Dja Biosphere Reserve is a UNESCO World Heritage site located in…