Southern California Ecosystems Research Program (SCERP)

Hooray! Alisa Hernandez won an Outstanding Poster award in Life Sciences Ecology/Evolutionary Biology at the 2020 SACNAS Conference! Alisa presented research from our summer course with Dr. Forsgren focused on how "The Blob" (a long-lasting period of elevated sea surface temperatures in the eastern Pacific) impacted fish catch off our coast. Congratulations to all of our scholars who did a fantastic job at the SACNAS conference! Your donations help our scholars attend and present (and win awards) at local, regional, and national conferences. These experiences make SCERP scholars nationally competitive for graduate school and careers! Use the link below to help support SCERP. https://fullerton.scalefunder.com/cfund/project/22166

The SCERP scholars are getting ready for the annual SACNAS Conference and made 1-minute videos to introduce people to their projects! First up: Maddy Panzino discussing research with Dr. Der from this summer's Problems in Environmental Biology course! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyatVKuldIg Donating to SCERP will support student research (like this!) and help our scholars participate in scientific conferences, two key activities that promote retention in STEM and enable t...hem to attain careers in ecology and environmental biology! Please donate using the link below. https://fullerton.scalefunder.com/cfund/project/22166 See more

SCERP is part of a Crowdfunding effort at CSUF this fall! Please donate. Your support will help train new scholars in ecology and environmental biology! https://fullerton.scalefunder.com/cfund/project/22166

Dear SCERP alumni and friends--CSUF is holding a crowdfunding event, October 1 - November 15, and SCERP has been invited to participate! The crowdfunding effort will us a team of SCERP ambassadors that help connect the program to potential donors. We need SCERP ambassadors! Please email Dr. Hoese if you can serve--the time commitment is modest and up to you in terms of how much you want to do. We are looking for ambassadors from across all cohorts and beyond. I hope you can join in the fun! Let me know if you can help out. Thanks! -Bill Hoese

Holly Suther (SCERP 2017 cohort) presented Cabrillo Marine Aquarium / USC Sea Grant Community Roundtable webinar event. Topic: Social Media as a Tool for Science Communication. So wonderfully relevant! Great work Holly!

Let's celebrate Shark Week! SCERP scholar, research by Julia Teeple and faculty mentor Dr. Paig-Tran are featured a terrific piece from the CSUF News Service! http://news.fullerton.edu/2020su/shark-teeth-research.aspx

Jenny Ibarra (SCERP 2019 cohort) and her research were featured in a CSUF News Service piece. Cool! http://news.fullerton.edu/2020sp/desert-noise-research.aspx

Nifty piece focused on Jacob's SCERP research with Dr. Paig-Tran by the CSUF News Service! http://news.fullerton.edu/2020sp/whale-shark-research.aspx

Nifty piece from the CSU Fullerton News Service on SCERP scholar, Brittany Cook (2017 cohort), who will be joining the Horticulture graduate program at Cornell University this fall! http://news.fullerton.edu//apple-research-brittany-cook.as

Thanks to Stephanie Diaz (SCERP 2005 cohort) for sharing recent events in her life! Stephanie and her new husband, Richard, are expecting a baby in July, and they just bought a house in Livermore, CA! Stephanie works at Livermore Lab and is the Group Leader for the Environmental Stewardship, Planning and Monitoring Group and supervises with a team of wildlife biologists, water quality analysts, and environmental planning specialists.

So very proud of the scholars at the 2020 SCERP Research Showcase! The posters and oral presentations on their independent research were absolutely terrific! We had over 75 Zooming participants at the showcase and SCERP alumni join us from around the world! Thank you faculty, friends, family, Department, and College for your great support of these wonderful scholars!

The annual SCERP Research Showcase is Friday, May 15, 6:00-8:00. Please email Dr. Hoese by Noon on Friday for Zoom links to the showcase. Thanks!

Go, Brittany Cook! She just gave a very nice poster on her SCERP research at the CSUF NSM ICC Symposium! #CSUF

Annual SCERP Research Showcase goes virtual! Save the date--May 15, 6-8PM. Posters by continuing scholars and talks by graduating scholars! Details TBA. Stay tuned...