Center For Environmental Biology-UC Irvine

We are happy to have a large number of interns this year!

We have a wonderful group of undergraduate student interns this year.

Do you enjoy being outdoors? Are you passionate about the environment? Do you love plants? Join our team!

The UCI Environmental Collaboratory is now accepting applications for a Junior Specialist. The Junior Specialist will be a full-time, highly-motivated researcher who will join our field team to conduct ecological restoration with a focus on vegetation monitoring.

Visit https://recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF08571 for more information on the position and to apply!

Congratulations to former CEB intern Kylie McGuire on the publication of her senior thesis!

Is it best to add native shrubs to a coastal sage scrub restoration project as seeds or as seedlings? Ecological restoration frequently involves the addition of native plants, but the effectiveness (in terms of plant growth, plant survival, and cost) of using seeds versus container plants has not been studied in many plant communities. It is also not known if plant success would vary by species or b...

Last week we welcomed our newest cohort of CEB interns. We're excited to work with them and for what's in store for this year.

Our interns had a great time planting native shrubs and grasses for our collaborative post-fire restoration experiment at Bolsa Chica Mesa!

Hooray! With the help of and staff, we finally finished seeding our last set of native grassland plots at Crystal Cove State Park

Today, we celebrate Endangered Species Day to learn about plants and animals that are at risk and to participate in local conservation efforts. Please join us in learning and sharing about local plant and wildlife!

1. Download the apps Seek by iNaturalist or Merlin Bird ID to take a picture and identify local plant or wildlife. Head to the link in bio for links to mobile app downloads and instructions.

2. Share your picture with the species name and classification (native, introduced, invasive) by tagging !

Head to UCI Sustainability's Instagram profile to view stories over the next few days to see what fellow Anteaters
have discovered in their neighborhoods!

CEB Internship applications for the 2020-2021 school year are still open! If you're passionate about environmental conservation and would like to learn how to make a difference through ecological restoration or environmental education, then make sure to visit our website below to download an application!
https://ceb.bio.uci.edu/intern-programs/ceb-internship/
UCI School of Biological Sciences

We would like to share some of the views we've come across while monitoring vegetation communities in Orange County. Happy Earth Day from CEB!!

If you want to learn more about restoration with salvaged soil, check out our new paper: "Identifying Mechanisms for Successful Ecological Restoration with Salvaged Topsoil in Coastal Sage Scrub Communities"

Identifying Mechanisms for Successful Ecological Restoration with Salvaged Topsoil in Coastal Sage Scrub Communities Although aboveground metrics remain the standard, restoring functional ecosystems should promote both aboveground and belowground biotic communities. Restoration using salvaged soil—removal and translocation of topsoil from areas planned for development, with subsequent deposition at degraded....