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 3:30 to 4:30 pm (unless otherwise noted) on the second Tuesday of the month in the Yosemite Valley Visitor Center Auditorium.
Date |
Presenter |
Affiliation |
Title |
| February 13 | Dr. Gabrielle Boisrame | Delta Stewardship Council/UC Berkeley | Water and wildfires: How returning fire to mountain landscapes affects rivers, snowpack, and forest health |
| March 13 | Dr. Johnny Nesmith | Sierra Nevada Network Inventory & Monitoring | White Pines of the Sierra Nevada: Ecology, conservation, and management |
| April 10 | Nicholas Dove | UC Merced | Fire and mycoryzal associations in Sierra Nevada forests |
| May 8 | Robert Hansen | Herpetological Review | Amphibians and Reptiles of the Eastern Sierra: Life in the Rain Shadow |
| June 12 | Dr. Justin Dellinger | California Department of Fish & Wildlife | Defining and monitoring mountain lion populations in California |
| July 10 | Lindsay Arvin | University of Wyoming | Dust as a nutrient source for mountain ecosystems |
| August 14 | Dr. Marc Meyer | US Forest Service | Tree mortality in the Sierra Nevada |
| September 11 | Karyn O'Hearn | UC Davis | Using bioacoustics to study the affects of fire history on bird communities in a giant sequoia-associated forest |
| October 9 | Dr. Jay Sexton | UC Merced | Rapid adaptation of monkeyflower to climate change |
| November 13 | Dr. Dena Grossenbacher | Cal Poly | Revisting Yosemite's "Sky Islands" |
| December 11 | TBA | TBA | TBA |
The Yosemite Forum is a partnership among:
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Yosemite National Park
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Yosemite Conservancy
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USGS, Western Ecological Research Center Yosemite Field Station
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University of California, Sierra Nevada Research Institute
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USFS, Pacific Southwest Research Station, Sierra Nevada Research Center
Learn more about the park's research and studies. Find Yosemite content throughout the Nature & Science and History & Culture web pages.