The fall/winter issue of Ironwood is now available online. In this latest issue you’ll get an inside look at lichens in a captivating story about how our Tucker Lichenologist Rikke Reese Næsborg, Ph.D. approaches her research. You’ll also hear from our horticulture team regarding some of the best planting and pruning tips for this fall…
California is home to over 2000 species of lichens, but only 15 are considered rare or endangered by the state. This tiny percentage (0.73%) gives the false impression that the remaining 99.27% of California lichens are more common. In reality, we don’t know enough about the vast majority of our lichens to determine whether they…
We are proud to share the news that Sarah Cusser, Ph.D., Terrestrial Invertebrate Conservation Ecologist at the Garden, has been awarded the Early Career Researcher Award from the prestigious Ecology Letters journal for her outstanding contribution to research. The winner was selected by the Senior Editors of Ecology Letters from nominations of papers accepted in 2022. Sarah’s paper…
Off the coast of Southern California lies an archipelago of eight islands, each with their own unique biology and story. Despite having lived in Southern California my entire life, I had only seen the islands a handful of times on clear beach days. I knew very little about them until I moved to Santa Barbara…
Thousands of people worldwide work together in an annual event to digitize biodiversity collections called WeDigBio. This event, which stands for Worldwide Engagement for Digitizing Biocollections, takes place annually from October 13 through 17 WeDigBio is a global data campaign, virtual science festival, and local outreach opportunity. All around the world scientists convert data from…
The Garden’s Conservation and Research department works to document California’s biodiversity and part of that work happens in its lichenarium. Much of the Garden’s conservation and research efforts involve staff going into the field to observe living things in their natural habitats. However, there is another side of work that stays at the Garden. In…
The Garden’s Rare Plant Conservation team was recently awarded funding for two projects with the Bureau of Land Management (BLM). The first is to continue the Garden’s work making conservation seed bank collections for rare plants within the BLM’s Central California District. The geographic footprint of this project is large, spanning from the Central Coast,…
THE GARDEN’S ONLINE TALKS ADDRESS BIODIVERSITY, CLIMATE CHANGE, AND CALIFORNIA NATIVE PLANTS AND ANIMALS This summer, the Garden hosted a series of talks called Summer Virtual Lecture Series. In the series, our team of scientists presented information and research about the twin threats of biodiversity loss and climate disruption as a result of human activities,…
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