Yosemite Forum
The Yosemite Forum is a free interactive lecture series designed to bring evolving knowledge of the Sierra Nevada to the public and the park. Lectures are noon-1 p.m. on the second Tuesday of the month in the Yosemite Valley Visitor Center Auditorium.
2013 Yosemite Forum Schedule
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April 9
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"Recreation ecology applications in National Parks: Examples from Yosemite, Rocky Mountain and Glacier Bay" by Christopher Monz, Utah State University
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May 14
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"The applications of GISystems to wilderness search and rescue, with case-studies from Yosemite National Park" by Paul Doherty, University of California, Merced
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June 11
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"The Upper Tuolumne River Ecosystem Project: developing an ecologically relevant hydrograph downstream of O'Shaughnessy Dam" by William Sears, San Francisco Public Utilities Commission
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July 9
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"Mapping a volcano's roots in 3D: field and geochemical relations on El Capitan" by Roger Putnam, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
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August 13
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"J.M. Hutchings and the National Park idea" by Jen Huntley
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September 10
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"Floral evolution of Yosemite's Monkeyflowers" by Dena Grossenbacher, University of California, Davis
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October 8
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Ethnobotany (more details to come) by Kat Anderson, University of California, Davis
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November 12
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Great gray owls (more details to come) by Joe Medley, University of California, Davis
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December 10
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"Climate change, resiliency, and wilderness management" by Nate Stephenson, U.S. Geological Survey
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The Yosemite Forum is a partnership among:
- Yosemite National Park
- The Yosemite Conservancy
- USGS, Western Ecological Research Center Yosemite Field Station
- University of California, Sierra Nevada Research Institute
- USFS, Pacific Southwest Research Station, Sierra Nevada Research Center
Learn more about the park's research and studies--also detailed in the Yosemite Science online resources management publication published on an occasional basis. Find Yosemite content throughout the Nature & Science and History & Culture web pages.
