by veronica | Sep 12, 2013 | events and outreach
Join us tomorrow night for a series of talks at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History from 6:30pm – 8:00pm. This free event will explore the theme “Found in Santa Cruz.” There will be 9 speakers presenting 20 slides for 20 seconds per slide,...
by yiwei | Jun 25, 2013 | events and outreach
Science on tap is a regular event that connects the Santa Cruz community with local scientists. This week, I’ll be talking about pumas and the puma project! Please come by for a fun slide show, discussion, and equipment demonstration on Wednesday June 26th 8PM...
by veronica | Feb 20, 2013 | events and outreach, Uncategorized
Last week Yiwei and I got to go talk with 5th, 7th, and 1st graders at Hillbrook School in Los Gatos. We brought along some of our field equipment and a puma skin from the UCSC Natural History Collection. After the talks were over, the first graders even lined up so...
by cwilmers | Mar 20, 2012 | puma ecology
Pumas are highly elusive animals and the chance of running into one is VERY slim. But, with the recent Cruz Alerts—text/call alerts sent out to students and faculty of UCSC about potentially dangerous activity—regarding Mountain Lion sightings near the UCSC campus, I...
by cwilmers | Sep 9, 2011 | events and outreach, media
Last month, Yiwei was invited to speak about our research by the town of Woodside because its residents had been seeing increased mountain lion activity. Here is an article summarizing the bulk of her talk that just appeared in the Almanac (a local Peninsula paper)...
