We record our lecture series with permission and upload them on our Sierra Nevada Aquatic Research Laboratories (SNARL) YouTube site. Lectures from 2014, 2015 and 2016 can be found on our Vimeo Channel
2024 SNARL Spring Seminar Series
- April 30, 2024: What the Bears Know: My Life as a Sierra Wildlife Officer
- Talk by Steve Searles, renowned bear expert and longtime wildlife officer for Mammoth Lakes
- May 7, 2024: Plastic Pollution in the Sierra Nevada
- Talk by Dr. Monica Arienzo, associate Research Professor, Desert Research Institute
- May 14, 2024: Europa Clipper: A Detailed Exploration of an Ocean World
- Talk by Dr. Bonnie Buratti, senior Research Scientist and Fellow, Deputy Project Scientist, Europa Clipper, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
- May 21, 2024: Climate change impacts on the recently listed whitebark pine species in the Sierra Nevada
- Talk by Dr. Joan Dudney, Assistant Professor, the Bren School and the Environmental Studies Program, UCSB
- May 28, 2024: The Future of Pinyon-Juniper Woodlands in the Eastern Sierra Nevada – A Panel Discussion
- Moderator
Dr. Paul Burow, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Earth System Science, Stanford University
Panelists
Thomas Gustie, Natural Resources Coordinator, Environmental Management Office, Bishop Paiute Tribe
Wilfred Nabahe, Tribal Relations Program Manager, Inyo National Forest
Heather Stone, Assistant Field Manager, Bishop Field Office, Bureau of Land
Management
- Moderator
2023 SNARL Spring Seminar Series
- May 2, 2023: 2022-23 Season Recap, one for the record books
- Talk by Steve Mace, Center Director and Lead Forecaster of the Eastern Sierra Avalanche Center
- May 9, 2023: Airborne Snow Observatories measurements of (perhaps) the largest snowpack in Sierra history
- Dr. Tom Painter, Chief Executive Officer, Airborne Snow Observatories, Inc.
- May 16, 2023: Reconstructing the temperature of Earth’s past to understand future climate change
- Dr. Jamie Lucarelli, Postdoctoral Fellow, UCLA Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences
- May 23, 2023: Claim to flame: the resilient bat communities of the Sierra Nevada
- Dr. Rachel Blakey, Biological Sciences Department, Cal Poly Pomona
- May 30, 2023: Farmed vs. wild seafood: sustainability showdown
- Dr. Ben Halpern, Director, National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, and Professor, UCSB
- Dr. Kim Selkoe, Founder and CEO, Get Hooked Seafood, and Executive Director, Commercial Fishermen of Santa Barbara
- June 6, 2023: Mammoth Lakes US 395 Wildlife Crossing Project: Moving Forward
- Katie Rodriguez, M.S, Caltrans District 9 Biology Branch Chief
- Dan Taylor, CDFW Region 6 Wildlife North Unit Biologist
- Kay Ogden, Executive Director / CEO, Eastern Sierra Land Trust
2022 SNARL Spring Seminar Series
- May 3, 2022: Lakes and Watersheds in the Sierra Nevada: Responses to Environmental Change
- Dr. John Melack – Bren School of Environmental Science and Management, and Department of Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology, University of California, Santa Barbara
- May 10, 2022: Mountain Living Together: Co-creating alpine-urban resilience in the Eastern Sierra and beyond
- Haley Fitzpatrick -PhD Candidate at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design
- May 17, 2022: Down with Disease: Managing pathogen threats in Yosemite toad populations
- Dave Daversa, Postdoctoral Fellow, La Kretz Center for California Conservation Science, University of California, Los Angeles
- May 24, 2022: Microplastics – a Macro Problem?
- Dr. Scott Coffin – State Water Resources Control Board
- May 31, 2022: Eastern Sierra Nevada Hydropower: Impacts and Opportunities
- Dr. Adam Cohen – Aquatic Ecologist, Stillwater Sciences
2021 SNARL Spring Lecture Series
- April 27, 2021: Re-opening Schools with Outdoor Learning
- Dr. Craig Strang, Associate Director, Lawrence Hall of Science, UC Berkeley
- May 4, 2021: Tales of rewilding from Yosemite Valley to the Equator
- Dr. Jon Shurin Professor, University of California San Diego
- May 11, 2021: Assessing Climate Variability in the Highest-Elevation Breeding Birds
- Tim Brown is a PhD student at UC Santa Cruz
- May 18, 2021: Rock Glaciers and the Ecology of Alpine Streams
- Dr. David Herbst Research Biologist, SNARL and Institute of Marine Sciences UC Santa Cruz
- May 25, 2021: The uncomfortable reality of the effects of predators on endangered species
- Dr. Tom Stephenson, Wildlife Biologist, California Department of Fish and Wildlife
- June 1, 2021: Exploring an unknown world: under-ice observations of Sierra Nevada
- Dr. Roland Knapp Research Biologist, SNARL and Earth Research Institute, UC Santa Barbara
- June 8, 2021: Interactions among fire, water, climate, carbon, and people in the Sierra
- Dr. Naomi Tague, Professor, Bren School of Environmental Science and Management, UCSB
- Ethan Turpin, Founder/Director Burn Cycle Project
2019 SNARL Spring Lecture Series
- May 14, 2019: Putting California on the Map: Von Schmidt’s Lines
- David Carle is an Author and retired Park Ranger
- May 21, 2019: The Mammoth Lakes Wildlife Crossing: Reducing wildlife collisions
- Tim Taylor, Environmental Scientist-Wildlife Biologist, California Department of Fish and Wildlife
- June 4, 2019: Hetch Hetchy Valley: What has been happening downstream from the dam?
- Jeff Holmquist, Research Scientist, White Mountain Research Center, Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, UCLA
2018 SNARL Spring Lecture Series
- May 1, 2018: Exploring Pristine Seas: Protecting the last wild places in our oceans
- Dr. Jennifer Caselle, Research Biologist, Marine Science Institute, University of California, Santa Barbara
- May 8, 2018: Ethical Concerns in Conservation of Biodiversity
- Phil Pister, Executive Secretary Desert Fishes Council
- May 22, 2018: Big bears, big lizards, and little ground squirrels: The importance of physiology in wildlife conservation and human medicine
- Dr. Hank Harlow
- May 29, 2018: Bear Essential?: Grizzlies in California
- Dr. Peter Alagona, Associate professor of history, geography, and environmental studies at UC Santa Barbara, as well as the founder and facilitator of the California Grizzly Study
- June 5, 2018: Back from the Brink: Bighorns, Peregrines, and Foxes in Yosemite
- Dr. Sarah Stock is a Wildlife Ecologist at Yosemite National Park, CA
2017 SNARL Spring Lecture Series
- May 2, 2017: On Thin Ice: Science and Art in Antarctica
- Dr. Gretchen Hofmann, PhD candidate Umi Hoshijima
- Lily Simonson artist
- May 16, 2017: Endocrine Disruptors in the wind
- Dr. Rebecca A. Lyons, University of Redlands Chemistry Department
- May 23, 2017: Snow in the Sierra Nevada in 2017
- Dr. Jeff Dozier, Distinguished Professor Snow Hydrology, Earth System Science, Remote Sensing at the Bren School of Environmental Science and Management at University of California, Santa Barbara
- May 30, 2017: Population dynamics in Mountain Yellow Legged Frogs
- PhD candidate in Ecology Mary Toothman, Evolution and Marine Biology at the University of California, Santa Barbara
- June 6, 2017: A plant’s eye view of climate change in California mountains
- Dr. Frank Davis, Professor, Bren School of Environmental Science and Management, UC Santa Barbara
- June 13, 2017: Generating Jovian Jets in a Giant Gyrating Jacuzzi
- Dr. Jon Aurnou, Professor of Planetary Physics, Department of Earth, Planetary & Space Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles
2014, 2015, and 2016 SNARL Spring Lecture Series can be found on our Vimeo