| 8:00 AM | 3A: Education, Outreach, & Engagement: Lessons from the Field (Special Topic Panel)
Moderator: Greg Ira, Director, UC ANR California Naturalists Program
This panel will explore different forms of educational initiatives related to oaks and oak woodlands. Each program addresses a different audience group (students, adults, teachers, and mixed audiences) and instructional delivery methods. The session will also examine best practices for addressing diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice within these programs and audience segments. View panel abstract | 3B: Oak Ecology & Conservation
Moderator: David Lewis, Director, Advisor UC Cooperative Extension Marin and Napa Counties
| 3C: Wildlife Ecology & Conservation
Moderator: Melanie Gogol-Prokurat, CA Dept. of Fish and Wildlife
| | 8:20 | K-12 Education - A Case Study of the Learning Among the Oaks (LATO) Program - Beverly Gingg, Learning Among the Oaks, The Land Conservancy of San Luis Obispo County | #26 Do Soil Microbes Affect Drought Tolerance in Quercus lobata? A Greenhouse Study on Seedlings and Soil from Tejon Ranch, CA – Laura Bogar, Dept. of Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology, UC Santa Barbara; Ronja Keeley, UC Santa Barbara | #30 Nest-site Relationships Among Cavity-nesting Birds of Oak Woodlands in California: Identifying the Source of Cavities for Non-excavators – Kathryn Purcell, USDA Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Research Station | | 8:40 | Adult Education: Forest Stewardship Education Initiative - Kim Ingram, UC Cooperative Extension, Davis | #27 Protecting in situ Engelmann Oak Within a Broad ex situ Collection of Quercus Species – Nicole Cavender, The Huntington | #31 Vegetation Associations for Amphibians and Reptiles in Undisturbed California Oak Woodland – Christopher Evelyn, Dept. of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, UC Berkeley | | 9:00 | Teacher Professional Development: Project Learning Tree - Cyndi Chavez, CA Project Learning Tree, 4-H Program, UC ANR | #28 Carbon Sequestration in California Oak Woodlands - Virginia Matzek, Dept. of Environmental Studies and Sciences, Santa Clara University | #32 Exploring the Value of California Black Oaks for Fishers in a Landscape Altered by Disturbance – Rebecca Green, USDA Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Research Station | | 9:20 | Community Science: Sudden Oak Death (SOD) Blitz Survey Project - Douglas Schmidt, Dept. of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, UC Berkeley | #29 Spheres of Influence: Host Tree Proximity and Soil Chemistry Shape rRNA, but Not DNA, Communities of Symbiotic and Free-Living Soil Fungi in a Mixed Hardwood-Conifer Forest – Gabriel Runte, Dept. of Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology, UC Santa Barbara | #33 California’s Oaks in the 21st Century: Oak Habitat for Endangered, Threatened and Candidate Species – Angela Moskow, California Wildlife Foundation/California Oaks | | 9:40 | Revitalizing Indigenous Stewardship and Sense of Place: Lessons from Amah Mutsun Land-based Educational Programming - Alexii Sigona, PhD Candidate, Dept. of Environmental Science, Policy and Management, UC Berkeley | Q&A | #34 Response of a Keystone Species to the Removal of Downed WOod in a California Oak Woodland - William Tietje, UC Cooperative Extension, Dept. of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, UC Berkeley |
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