Virtual

Birdy Hour with Lynne Trulio: Beautiful California Biodiversity - Understanding and Protecting It

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We share the Earth with millions of other species.  But, our planet is experiencing a biodiversity crisis in which a significant portion of these species are in danger of extinction in coming decades.  While the Earth has undergone mass extinctions in the past—such as when a meteor strike doomed the dinosaurs—the current mass extinction event is caused by humans.  This loss of species is a tragedy for the Earth’s ecology and non-human inhabitants, but will also have significant impacts on human societies.

Lunch and Learn Science: Trial and Tractor: Large-scale Habitat Transition Zone Revegetation in the Ravenswood Complex - Jessie Olson, Save The Bay

Jessie Olson of Save The Bay
Jessie Olson of Save The Bay

Learn about Save The Bay’s cost-saving methods to revegetate and restore wildlife habitat at the Restoration Project's recently completed Ravenswood Ponds restoration site in Menlo Park. Jessie Olson, Habitat Restoration Director at Save The Bay, discusses the techniques the non-profit has developed that can be scaled up while reducing costs and labor. Save The Bay planted on our newly constructed habitat transition zone slopes (also called “horizontal levees”) bordering restoring tidal marsh at the U.S.

Birdy Hour: Flows of Water and Waterbirds Across California

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At this free virtual talk, Dr. Nathan Van Schmidt, Science Director at the San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory, will discuss the challenges of bird conservation, after birds displaced by development and human presence on beaches and former Central Valley wetlands have come to depend on man-made ponds in the South Bay Salt Pond Restoration Project lands. 

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Lunch and Learn Science: Spin Cycle: Decoding population dynamics of phalaropes and other waterbirds of the Pacific Flyway. Nathan Van Schmidt, SFBBO

Nathan Van Schmidt of the San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory
Nathan Van Schmidt of the San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory

Scientist Nathan Van Schmidt of the San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory (SFBBO) talks about his research on the challenges facing waterbirds of the Pacific Flyway within the Restoration Project.

Lunch and Learn Science: Sloughs and Salt Ponds – Investigating Water Quality in a Complex Ecosystem. Ariella Chelsky, SFEI

Ariella Chelsky
Ariella Chelsky

Learn about water quality issues, such as low dissolved oxygen, that can arise in the complex environment of Lower South Bay sloughs and the Restoration Project’s gated and culverted pond habitats, as Ariella Chelsky of the San Francisco Estuary Institute discusses her research.

Lunch and Learn Science: Plovers in a Changing World - Maddy Schwarz, SFBBO

Maddy Schwarz with a red-tailed hawk in hand
Maddy Schwarz with a red-tailed hawk in hand

Learn the latest about one of the Restoration Project’s most charismatic megafauna, the threatened Western Snowy Plover, from Maddy Schwarz of the San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory (SFBBO). Snowy plovers nest and raise their chicks on stretches of dry ponds, where their eggs and young are vulnerable to predators from the ground and above.