In Spring 2022, R2R trainees took on the challenge to plan an event and workshop that would bridge gaps between the community, local tribes, ecologists, artists, and land management agencies: Art + Ecology: Stories that…
Karina Brocco French is a current PhD student and National Science Foundation Ridge to Reef (R2R) Fellow in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of California, Irvine. She is interested in…
The ocean supplies most of the oxygen we breathe—more than all forests and greenery worldwide—through plant-like algae that float in the sun-lit surface. These algae, called phytoplankton, form the base of the marine food web….