2014-2015 Annual Report Cover Pages

C-OPS Monitoring, North Pacific

Graduate Student Kelsey Bisson monitors the status of the C-OPS during a cast. May 2015, North Pacific. Norm Nelson and Dave Siegel, PIs.

Photo credit: Samantha Siedlecki, University of Washington. 

C-OPS Spectroradiometer

Erik Stassinos, Development Engineer (right) and Capt. Robert Kamphaus, NOAA (left) deploy the ERI C-OPS spectroradiometer off the NOAA Ship Ronald H. Brown. May 2015, North Pacific. Norm Nelson and Dave Siegel, PIs.

Photo credit: Samantha Siedlecki, University of Washington. 

Oceanography, Equatorial Pacific

Norm Nelson, Researcher (left), and James Allen, Graduate Student (right), pose with the C-OPS prior to deployment. May 2015, Equatorial Pacific. Norm Nelson and Dave Siegel, PIs. 


Photo credit: Samantha Siedlecki, University of Washington. 


  


  
  
      

          

    







  

  

  

  
        
Drought-induced ponderosa pine mortality at Tejon Ranch, CA

    
  
      

          

  
  

    
Forest response to global change-type drought is visibly evident at Tejon Ranch in the Tehachapi Mountains of California, near the southern range limit of ponderosa pine (/Pinus ponderosa/). The current three-year drought has coincided with greater than 50% adult mortality in the local ponderosa pine population.

 

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		left: Phoebe Prather (Tejon Ranch Conservancy)
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		right:  Ian McCullough, UCSB Bren School.
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