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CCBER Announces New Website: We are proud to announce our newly developed website, located at http://ccber.lifesci.ucsb.edu. Kelly Campbell, our Interpretation Coordinator, and the Center faculty and staff have created an elegant array of all new pages beautifully illustrated with many specimens and images from CCBER’s collections of natural history.
You will soon be able to search CCBER’s library collection through its online catalog. Approximately 2,200 books and technical reports have been catalogued, and many of our archive collections of papers and photographs will be catalogued in the coming year. We also have been adding our herbarium specimens to the statewide Consortium of California Herbaria database, located at UC Berkeley. These are now directly searchable through the link on the Vascular Plants page.
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Hutton Foundation has awarded another year of funding to support the inclusion of Joel Mason’s fifth-grade class from Olga Reed School in the Kids in Nature program for 2007-2008. Hutton’s grant will provide the participating class with a year-long dynamic combination of hands-on, inquiry-based classroom activities, interactive custom-designed computer simulations, and field trips to UCSB’s Cheadle Center for Biodiversity and Ecological Restoration and to Sedgwick Reserve, one of seven natural reserve sites managed by UCSB. The activities focus on environmental science, botany, ecology, and habitat restoration.
The Stormwater Management System (SMS) portion of San Clemente Graduate Housing received the 2007 Best Practice Award for the Energy Efficiency Partnership Program in the category of Sustainable Efforts for Water Efficiency/Site Water Quality. The Best Practice Awards are an annual awards program that recognizes outstanding energy-efficiency, green building, and sustainability projects on the UC and CSU campuses. CCBER staff assisted in the design and they are currently working at the site and planting native wetland and upland species.
The Campus Flora Project has received a second year of funding from the Elvenia Slosson Foundation to continue to identify and georeference the unique and interesting plants on campus, prepare additional exotic flora walking tour brochures, and develop an interactive map.
Vandenberg Air Force Base Contract: For the 12th year in a row, the Vertebrate Collections staff, Mark Holmgren and curator Steve Rothstein, have received a contract to conduct bird studies on Vandenberg. The focus this year is to detect breeding by the state and federally endangered Southwestern Willow Flycatcher, Empidonax traillii extimus. The range of this subspecies covers parts of Arizona, southern California, and southern Nevada. The small population on the Santa Ynez River between the ocean and Buellton is the western-most in its range. We will also examine the management options that will allow VAFB to best manage its riparian resources.
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