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Exploring the San Lorenzo River Tour: Fish Food Chains

March 18, 2017 @ 8:30 am - 10:30 am

FREE

Join us for the Exploring the San Lorenzo River tour on March 18 from 8:30 to 10:30.  This tour will be hosted by the Coastal Watershed Council and will be about the aquatic ecosystems and food chains that fish rely on in the San Lorenzo River and Lagoon. There will be hands-on learning in fish and benthic invertebrate (bug) identification. The tour and seining exercises and bug collection will be led by Nick Macias and Travis Apgar.

Nick Macias – Nick is a Ph.D student in the Freshwater and Coastal Ecology Lab at UC Santa Cruz. Nick’s research focuses on benthic food-web structue and terrestrial-aquatic interactions within forested headwater streams.
Travis Apgar – Travis is a masters student in the Freshwater and Coastal Ecology Lab at UC Santa Cruz. Travis’s specialties are landscape genetics and geospatial ecology.

 

This tour will meet here on the Riverwalk adjacent to Mike Fox Park. Parking is available in the park parking lot and on San Lorenzo Boulevard. To learn more contact River Scientist Alev Bilginsoy at abilginsoy@coastal-watershed.org. To sign up for the tour fill out the form below. Tours are marked “Fins” for fish tours and “Feathers” for bird tours. You can sign up for one or for all of them.

More on the tour series…

The Exploring the San Lorenzo River Series offers weekly interactive tours on the topic of fish and birds of the watershed co-hosted by the Coastal Watershed Council and Santa Cruz Museum of Natural History. Learn about and explore the ecosystem of the San Lorenzo River with experts! Tours are open to all ages and will be hosted every Saturday! The Exploring the San Lorenzo River Series in funded by the Santa Cruz Fish and Wildlife Advisory Commission and Clif Bar.

 

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Details

Date:
March 18, 2017
Time:
8:30 am - 10:30 am
Cost:
FREE
Event Category:

Organizers

Coastal Watershed Council
Santa Cruz Museum of Natural History

Venue

Santa Cruz Riverwalk
Santa Cruz, CA 95060 United States + Google Map