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35th Annual Field Ecology Weekend April 28 & 29, 2018

SATURDAY SunDAY 8:00 - 8:45 Registration 8:00 - 10:00 Bird Walk & Botany Hike Identification Suzanne Goode 8:45 - 9:00 Welcome from our president, Patricia Hill Scott Logan Sage blessing and song with Peter Rice

9:00 - 11:00 Monkeyflower Diversity Fascinating World 10:30 - 12:30 Effects of Heat Wave Ice Age Encounters: in of Tidepools on Shrubs Saber-toothed cat and Naomi Fraga Leslie Harris Alexandria Dire wolf in Pivovaro @Conference Room Xiaoming Wang

11:00 - 12:00 Lunch 12:30 - 1:45 Lunch + Discussion and Sharing

12:00 - 2:00 Butterfly Communities Welcome to Malibu 2:00 - 5:00 Urban Project and Scat Party in the Santa Monica Creek State Park @Conference Room Mountains Tom Kaplan Justin Brown Ken Davenport

2:00 - 2:15 Break 5:00 - 6:00 Clean Up

2:15 - 5:15 Primitive Skills Crafting the Jim Robertson Material Culture F.E.W. 911 of the Chaparral ($10 Materials Fee) « When 2 programs are offered at the same time, you must choose one. Peter Rice « Tent camping available Friday and Saturday nights. Provide your own food for breakfast and lunch. A stove to boil water will be available. « Useful items to bring: binoculars, notebook, camera. 5:15 - 7:15 Potluck Dinner « All guests must register and turn in a signed waiver. « Schedule subject to change.

General Information: 7:30 - 8:30 Campfire Talk: [email protected] Navigating Indigenous Spaces, Near and Far Registration: Powtawache Valerino [email protected] f.e.w. 2018 Speakers: Naomi Fraga is the Director of Conservation Programs at Rancho Powtawche Velerino is from New Orleans, and is Native American Santa Ana Botanic Garden in Claremont, CA. Her research interests (Mississippi Choctaw tribe) and African-American. She works as a include the systematics of monkey flowers, plant geography, navigation engineer at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory and conservation biology, and pollination biology. She is particularly recently supported the Cassini mission to Saturn. Currently, she works interested in the flora of the and in on the Parker Solar Probe mission to the sun led by Johns Hopkins . University Applied Physics Laboratory. Powtawche is a strong advocate for STEM curriculum for youth, and is an enthusiastic proponent of Leslie Harris is the Polychaete Collections Manager at the Natural outdoor education and environmental stewardship. History Museum, Los Angeles. Ms. Harris is an eminent authority on the marine flora and fauna of California, and has been instrumental in Scott Logan is a partner in Wild Wings Backyard Nature Store the acquisition of major private polychaete collections for the located in Sherman Oaks, the only independent urban naturalist retail museum. She will shed light on the complex ecology of tide pool outlet in the Los Angeles area. Born and raised in Los Angeles, Logan systems and illuminate the colorful secrets of this fascinating world. has been exploring the chaparral-clad since childhood. He knows the native wildlife intimately, with birds being the Ken Davenport is a native of Glendale. His interest in butterflies focus of his attention. He will guide participants in exploring the park began in Bakersfield in the summer of 1960 at the age of twelve. He to find the regular and migratory birds, teaching how to identify them began writing butterfly articles in 1968, writing over 40 scientific by the clues they offer. papers, books, and articles, including a major paper updating the butterflies of southern California citing 206 species and 160 subspe- Suzanne Goode is the Natural Resource Program Manager for the cies and segregates, currently under review. He worked on mapping California Department of Parks and Recreation, Angeles District. She distributions of butterflies in California and Arizona, and was also has held this position for 24 years. She oversees the natural resources involved in documenting early and late flight periods of butterflies in for 40,000 acres in the Santa Monica Mountains, , the San California. Ken was a Field Associate at the Natural History Museum in Fernando Valley, the Verdugo Mountains and . Entomology from 1985 — 2005 and has been a Museum Associate of She is currently undertaking several large habitat restoration projects Colorado State University and the Colorado State Museum since 2002. in the Santa Monica Mountains, including Malibu Lagoon, Malibu He is the season summary coordinator for the Lepidopterists' Society Canyon, Topanga Canyon, Arroyo Sequit and La Jolla Valley. Suzanne is yearly publication. As BAMONA Coordinator for California, Nevada, and particularly focused on the restoration of native grasslands. She also Oregon, he makes or verifies identifications, records range extensions, has responsibility for internal and external environmental review and butterfly distributions, or anything of scientific interest. real property management.

Tom Kaplan has been a docent at State Park since Alex Pivovaro is a plant eco-physiologist. She studied chaparral 2007, having been trained with the Topanga Canyon Docents. He has and coastal sage scrub responses to drought and nitrogen deposition. extensive knowledge of the trails, history, flora, fauna, and geology of Her current research focuses on live fuel moisture, an important fire the parkland. He trains new docents on trail knowledge and helps with behavior trait. school/scout/visitor hikes. Dr. Xiaoming Wang’s research interests are in the mammalian Jim Robertson has been hiking the Santa Monica Mountains since evolution and environmental change in the late Cenozoic Period during 1954 when he first moved here, and has been a volunteer naturalist for the past 20 million years. As a curator of vertebrate paleontology at the Santa Monica Mountains for seventeen years. He is a Topanga the Natural History Museum in Los Angeles, he oversees the Cenozoic Canyon Docent and has participated in many of our programs over the terrestrial mammal collections, one of the preeminent collections of years. Jim is a student, practitioner, and instructor of primitive this kind in the world. He also leads expeditions to the Tibetan Plateau indigenous living skills, an area he has gained expertise in since his and Inner Mongolia in field studies searching for vertebrate fossils to move to southern California. Jim states, “It gives me great pleasure, trace biodiversity in the ancient world. In recent years, Dr. Wang has and soul satisfaction, to share these skills with others; because I know focused on the geochronology of Asia based on fossil mammals from that each of the many ancient skills we practice ... are pathways ... that region. He is also interested in the fossil history of the dog family, literally leading us to a much deeper relationship with the natural Canidae, and other carnivores during the past 40 million years. world, and ourselves; this is the result of creating an intimate connection with our mother earth ... Of course this all equates to being Justin Brown is a researcher of the at the a good caretaker of the land, a good steward of the land, which is what Santa Monica Recreation Area. He leads a citizen science program with being our being a naturalist in the Santa Monica Mountains is all about.” the L.A. Urban Coyote Project to better understand the lives of these remarkably resilient canines within our park and city. We will learn Peter Rice is a Topanga Canyon docent. He has spent years studying about the ’ behavior, their wildlife paths, and analyze their indigenous culture and interpreting it for various audiences. Peter will scat to study their diet. explore using the materials of the chaparral to create rattles and elderberry container necklaces.