Category: Climate Change

• Think Big, Connect More

  In November 2019, more than 125 members of the conservation community gathered at the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation for the official launch of the Bay Area Conservation Lands Network 2.0 Science Expansion. CLN 2.0 inventories, synthesizes, and projects forward the impressive collective efforts that have made the Bay Area a world leader in conservation,…

  Jimmy

  January 6, 2020

  Climate Change, Networking, Rare species, Research, Stewardship

• The Bay Checkerspot Butterfly Returns to San Bruno Mountain!

  The federally threatened Bay checkerspot butterfly was extirpated from San Bruno Mountain in the mid 1980s.  On March 2 and 3 2017, Creekside Science biologists collected 3630 caterpillars from Coyote Ridge in San Jose and released them on the main ridge of San Bruno Mountain.  The larvae immediately started munching English plantain, a  non-native used by…

  Jimmy

  March 6, 2017

  Bay Checkerspot, Climate Change, Nitrogen Deposition, Recognition and Media, Research, Restoration, Stewardship, Topoclimatic Studies

• Fine-scale modeling of bristlecone pine treeline position in the Great Basin, USA

  A multi-year collaboration between Western Washington University (Andrew Bunn, Jamis Bruening, Tyler Tran), The Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research at University of Arizona (Matthew Salzer) and Creekside Science (Stu Weiss, Jimmy Quenelle) culminates with the publication of this paper! bruening_2017_environ-_res-_lett-_12_014008 It was an honor to work with this dedicated team over time and over diverse terrain,…

  Jimmy

  January 10, 2017

  Climate Change, Research, Topoclimatic Studies