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Department of Botany and Plant Sciences
University of California Riverside
LATEST NEWS
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So many Congratulations to go around:
Clarissa, Stuart, Noah, and Meg all successfully defended!
Stuart received the Botany & Plant Sciences Graduate Student Achievement Award!
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Sam & Ariana received GAANN Fellowships!
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Congratulations to Meg who started as the revegetation ecologist at the Great Basin Institute!
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Congratulations to Clarissa and Stuart who started post-docs! Clarissa at San Diego State and Stuart at UC San Diego
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There are a few new papers out: Prescribed burns may create refugia that allow reinvasion, Applying coexistence to restoration ecology, Soil surface treatments influence seedling establishment in desert restoration​
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Lab Group Photo - Celebrating all the 2023 PhDs
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Lab group photo
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close up of transplanted chaparral shrub seedlings post fire (photo: M. Kargul)
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Lab Group Photo - Celebrating all the 2023 PhDs