Ellie Bolas, who completed her Ph.D. in ecology this spring, is this year’s recipient of the Kinsella Memorial Prize for her doctoral research on how wildfires and human activities shape wildlife behavior and predator-prey interactions between mountain lions and mule deer in the greater Los Angeles area.
After the sun sets and darkness falls over the vineyards near Lodi, American barn owls start to glide above the grapevines in search of rodents below. As the birds hunt, researchers at the University of California, Davis, and California State Polytechnic University, Humboldt, and San Luis Obispo, are paying attention to how noises echoing through the fields influence these nocturnal raptors.
Presentations by Levi Lewis and Rob Furrow at the Avanza Rising Scholars Conference May 16th.
To know nature is to know one's self; and to protect nature is to preserve our future. Few are aware that motivated students in science, technology, engineering, and math can pursue lucrative and fulfilling careers in fisheries and wildlife biology.
