Ecological Society of America

Field Trips

FT-1--cancelled

FT-2 A Trip through Time: Plant-Soil Relationships of the Santa Cruz Marine Terraces
Departs: Saturday, August 4 at 8:30 am; Returns Saturday, August 4 at 5:30 pm
Fee includes: Transportation, breakfast snack, and box lunch = $45
Organizer: Mark Waldrop, US Geological Survey; Marjorie Schulz, US Geological Survey; and Tim Hyland, California State Parks

FT-3 Jasper Ridge Global Change Experiment
Departs: Saturday, August 4 at 9 am; Returns Saturday, August 4 at 1:30 pm
Note: this field trip will be repeated on Monday, August 6. See FT-14.
Fee includes: Transportation and box lunch = $45
Organizer: Nona Chiariello, Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve

FT-4 Bats of Pinnacles National Monument
Departs: Saturday, August 4 at 2 pm; Returns Saturday, August 4 at midnight
Fee includes: Transportation, box lunch, and snack = $50
Organizer: Winifred Frick and Paul Heady, Central Coast Bat Research Group

FT-5--cancelled

FT-6 Big Sur Forests and Grasslands (OVERNIGHT)
Departs: Saturday, August 4, 2007 at 8 am; Returns: Sunday, August 5, 2007 at 3 pm
Fee includes: Transportation, Saturday lunch, Saturday dinner, Sunday breakfast, and Sunday lunch, and overnight shared room lodging at Hastings Reserve. Participants need to bring bedding, towel & toiletries. = $150
Organizer: Kerri Frangioso, University of California Davis

FT-7--cancelled

FT-8 Big Sur Bird Banding and Condor Tracking
Departs: Sunday, August 5 at 7:30 am; Returns Sunday, August 5 at 5 pm
Fee includes: Transportation, breakfast snack, and box lunch. = $80
Organizer: Karen Shihadeh, Ventana Wildlife Society

FT-9 South San Francisco Bay Salt Pond Restoration Project
Departs: Sunday, August 5 at 8:15 am; Returns Sunday, August 5 at 2:00 pm
Fee includes: Transportation, breakfast snack, and box lunch. = $45
Organizer: Lynne Trulio, South Bay Salt Pond Restoration Project

FT-10 San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge
Departs: Sunday, August 5 at 8:15 am; Returns Sunday, August 5 at 2:00 pm
Fee includes: Transportation, breakfast snack, and low waste lunch are included. = $25
Organizer: Colibrí Sanfiorenzo-Barnhard, SEEDS Fellow

FT-11 Monterey Bay Aquarium
Departs: Sunday, August 5 at 8:30 am; Returns Sunday, August 5 at 5 pm
Fee includes: Transportation and ticket to Aquarium. Participants will be provided time to get their own lunch at Aquarium café or surrounding restaurants. Adult =$60; Senior 65+= $58; Student 13-17 or college ID =$58; Child 3-12= $51; Child under 3 yrs with seat on the bus =$37; Child under 3 and no seat on the bus= free.
Organizer: Shannon Bros, San Jose State University

FT-12 Marine Mammals and Redwoods
Departs: Sunday, August 5 at 8 am; Returns Sunday, August 5 at 5 pm
Fee includes: Transportation, breakfast snack, and box lunch. = $70
Organizer: Joanne Kerbavaz, California State Parks

FT-13 Northern California Redwood Ecology
Departs: Sunday, August 5 at 9 am, Returns Sunday, August 5 at 5:00 pm
Fee includes: Transportation, breakfast snack, and box lunch = $42
Organizer: Will Russell, San Jose State University

FT-14 Jasper Ridge Global Change Experiment
Departs: Monday, August 6 at 9 am; Returns Monday, August 6 at 1:30 pm
Note: this field trip also occurs on Saturday, August 4. See FT-3.
Fee includes: Transportation and box lunch = $30
Organizer: Nona Chiariello, Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve

FT-15 Cultivating Agroecological Research: Dinner and Discussion at the Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems
Departs: Monday, August 6 at 4:30 pm; Returns Monday, August 6 at 9 pm
Fee includes: Transportation and dinner. = $36
Organizer: Katie Monsen, University of California Santa Cruz

FT-16: Birding the South San Francisco Bay
Departs: Tuesday, August 7 at 6 am; Returns Tuesday, August 7 at 10 am
Fee includes: Transportation and breakfast snacks = $23
Organizer: Caitlin Robinson, San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory

FT-17 Santa Clara Valley Riparian Habitat Restoration
Departs: Wednesday, August 8 at 7 am, Returns Wednesday, August 8 at 1:30 pm
Fee includes: Transportation, breakfast snack, and box lunch = $40
Organizer: John Stanley, WWW Restoration

FT-18 Checkerspot Butterfly and Grassland Restoration and Work Party at Edgewood County Park and Natural Preserve
Departs: Wednesday, August 8 at 4:00 pm; Returns Wednesday, August 8 at 8:45 pm
Fee includes: Transportation and sack dinner = $40
Organizer: Bill Korbholz, Friends of Edgewood Natural Preserve

FT-19 Guadalupe River: Advancing Ecological Function in Managed Ecosystems
Departs: Thursday, August 9 at 8:30; Returns Thursday, August 9 at 11:30 am
Fee includes: Breakfast snack and water = $10
Organizer: Alex Felson, EDAW Inc.

FT-20 Santa Cruz Sandhills
Departs: Thursday, August 9 at 1 pm; Returns Thursday, August 9 at 6 pm
Fee includes: Transportation and snack = $28
Organizer: Jodi McGraw, Population and Community Ecologist

FT-21 Lettuce, Landscape and Labor: A One-Day Exploration of the Agriculture and Environment Interface on the California Central Coast
Departs: Saturday, August 11 at 8 am; Returns Saturday, August 11 at 6 pm
Fee includes: Transportation, breakfast snack, and box lunch = $88
Organizer: Katie Monsen, University of California Santa Cruz

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