2025 SNARL Spring Seminar Series

Seminars are 7-8 PM every Tuesday from May 6 to June 10 at the Page Center at SNARL

Please join us this spring for a series of presentations focused on some of the latest research and findings from the Eastern Sierra and Beyond. We are very excited to be in person again at the Page Center. Seminars are on Tuesday evenings from 7-8 PM and doors open at 6:30. All seminars will be held in the Page Center at SNARL – 1016 Mount Morrison Road. Small tasters of food and drink will be provided by local businesses. Please arrive early to park, secure a seat, snack and mingle. Seminars are geared to adult audiences, however young people are encouraged to attend and well-behaved children are welcome. Visitors are not allowed to bring dogs to SNARL, so please leave pets at home. Looking forward to seeing you at SNARL.

2025 Schedule

Tuesday May 6

Peter S. Alagona, Professor, Environmental Studies, UCSB

Recovering Grizzly Bears in California: An Update on the Where, When, How, and Maybe Even the Why

Tuesday May 13

Rebecca M. Reynolds, UCSB, Bren School of Environmental Science & Management
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Christopher L. Jerde, University of California, Santa Barbara, Marine Science Institute

Assessing Plastic Pollution in Eastern Sierra Nevada Waters

Tuesday May 20

Roland Knapp, Research Biologist, Sierra Nevada Aquatic Research Laboratory and UCSB Earth Research Institute

From abundance to near-extinction and back again: Recovery of the mountain yellow-legged frog in the Sierra Nevada

Tuesday May 27

Beth Pratt, California Regional Executive Director, National Wildlife Federation

Yosemite Wildlife: Continuing the Legacy of Joseph Grinnell

Tuesday June 3

Taimur Ahmad, PhD Student, University of Wisconsin – Madison

A Community to Which We Belong: Nature and Finding Common Ground in the Eastern Sierra

Tuesday June 10

Dr. Conner Philson, Executive Director, UCSB Natural Reserve System

The Marmot Social Network: The Weird and Fun Social Lives of Yellow-bellied Marmots