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NRS News and Highlights
- Joe Miller, director of the NRS's Fort Ord Natural Reserve, has established a program to bring at-risk students from a nearby charter high school to the reserve to learn about natural history as well as careers in conservation and science.
- A 2024 Field Science Fellowship will enable three UC undergraduate-faculty teams to conduct field-based research on elephant seals, symbiotic fungi, and intertidal marine algae at NRS reserves this summer.
- New papers examine the relationship between science and National Parks, and how both can serve each other better.
- The NRS's Kendall-Frost Mission Bay Marsh Reserve inaugurated a new field station in May 2024.
- Bodega Marine Reserve has named its herbarium to honor former reserve manager Peter Connors.