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August |
- Graduate fellows begin training and planning for 2005-06 school year.
- Saturday-Sunday, August 29-30
- Graduate fellows take a field trip to the Angelo Reserve in preparation for future
overnight field trips with students.
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September |
- Work in classrooms at our four schools begin. After observing in the classroom, our
graduate fellows introduce themselves to their students and begin weekly lessons. This
fall, all of our classes will be studying the biodiversity of their own school yard and
making a collection of observations, animal sign, insects, and plants that can be found
right on the school grounds.
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October |
- Monday-Thursday, October 3-6
- Our Berkeley High School Environmental lab sections continue their collaboration with
campus Environmental Scientists (Office of Environmental Health and Safety), graduate students
(Society for Conservation Biology) and the spring 2005 Plant Ecology lab (Dept. of Integrative
Biology) to restore native vegetation in the Grinnell Nature Area of Strawberry Creek near Oxford
St. Last spring our students, together with UCB Plant Ecology students, weeded out the non-native
plants. This year, our students continue the removal of non-native plants, and
pot seedlings
of native plants which will be put into the ground. More weeding will be done in November, and they
will begin putting the native plants into the ground in late November through January.
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- Tuesday and Thursday, October 11 and 13
- Berkeley High School classes visit the UC Botanical Gardens.
- Friday, October 14
- Richmond High School takes a field trip to the Sierra Tahoe
National Forest. They stop at different elevations along the way to study how communities of plants
and animals change with increasing elevation and the changing terrain.
- Friday-Sunday, October 21-23
- Pittsburg High School takes a three-day field trip to Sagehen
Creek Field station in the Sierra.
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November |
- Friday-Sunday, November 4-6
- Our Period 1 Adams Middle School class take a three-day field trip
to the Hastings Natural History Reserve.
- Sunday, November 30
- Our Richmond High School class visits the Berkeley Natural History Museums.
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December |
- Thursday, December 1
- Pittsburg High School takes a day trip to study the waterfowl and
wetlands at the DOW wetland in Pittsburg.
- Friday-Sunday, December 2-4
- Our Period 2 Adams Middle School class takes a three-day trip
to the Hastings Natural History Reserve.
- Mark Stromberg, resident Director of the Hastings Natural History Reserve, has installed a set
of coverboards along one of the trails. When schools visit, students will be able to monitor the
reptiles, amphibians and invertebrates that use the boards.
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January |
- Tuesday-Thursday, January 10-12
- Berkeley High School Environmental Science Labs continue their Strawberry Creek restoration
effort, planting several hundred seedlings of native plant species along the banks of the creek
in the Grinnell Nature Area.
- Wednesday-Thursday, January 25-26
- Berkeley High School classes will visit the Berkeley Natural History Museums.
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February |
- Monday-Tuesday, February 6-7
- Adams Middle School students will visit the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, the UC Museum of
Paleontology, the Essig Museum of Entomology, and the UC Botanical Gardens where they will be
introduced to the extensive collections of plants, vertebrates, and insects held there.
- Thursday, February 9
- Pittsburg High School class will visit the Berkeley Natural History Museums.
- Thursday, February 16
- Richmond High School class will visit Briones, one of the East
Bay Regional Parks. They will
look at birds and amphibians living in the park, particularly the California newts that breed in
the ponds there.
- Wednesday, February 22
- Pittsburg High School will return to the DOW Wetlands to continue their studies of waterfowl,
plants, and insects at this restored delta wetland.
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March |
- Friday-Sunday, March 24-26
- Richmond High School will travel to Hastings Natural History Reserve where they will
explore the plants and animals of this oak woodland habitat.
- Wednesday-Friday, March 29-31
- Students from one of the Berkeley High School classes will take a field trip to the Angelo
Coast Range Reserve in Mendocino County. They will explore the natural communities along the Eel
River there, which include redwood forests, meadows, and chaparral.
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April |
- Friday-Sunday, April 7-9
- Adams Middle School students will visit the Angelo Coast Range Reserve. Last year, while
visiting this site, the Adams group saw a young black bear foraging along the river!
- Friday-Sunday, April 7-9
- Pittsburg High School students will go on a field trip to the Hasting Natural History
Reserve where they will see lots of acorn woodpeckers, deer, wildflowers, and western fence
lizards.
- Monday-Friday, April 10-14
- A group from Berkeley High School's Environmental Science classes will venture to
Santa Cruz Island where they will get a close look at the flora and fauna of the Channel
Islands.
- Friday-Sunday, April 21-23
- Another group from one of our Berkeley High School Environmental Science classes will go to
the Angelo Coast Range Reserve.
- Saturday, April 22
- The Exploring California Biodiversity program participates in the UC Berkeley annual open house, Cal Day.
- Friday-Sunday, April 28-30
- A second group of Adams Middle Schoolers will go to the Angelo Coast Range Reserve to
explore the redwoods and the Eel River.
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May |
- Saturday, May 13
- Exploring California Biodiversity will hold its end-of-the-year symposium, featuring
PowerPoint presentations made by our K-12 students, and student posters presenting the results of
their schoolyard and field station biodiversity explorations. See photos from the
celebration.
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