http://www.werc.usgs.gov/WERCOutreachBlogFeed.ashxUSGS - Western Ecological Research Center's(WERC) Outreach Articles This is the first of hopefully a continuing series highlighting the research and careers of the many amazing scientists at the USGS Western Ecological Research Center… At the 2012 USGS Open House this weekend, one of the many USGS scientists the public will be Laura Valoppi. A biologist with the <a href="http://www.werc.usgs.gov/outreach.aspx?RecordID=136"><strong>...more</strong></a>http://www.werc.usgs.gov/outreach.aspx?RecordID=136http://www.werc.usgs.gov/outreach.aspx?RecordID=136Tue, 15 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT This weekend is the 2012 USGS Open House in Menlo Park, California -- a great family-friendly event that takes place every three years and gives USGS a chance to showcase its amazing science and scientists to the public. Games, exhibits, lectures and films span the gamut of USGS science, inclu <a href="http://www.werc.usgs.gov/outreach.aspx?RecordID=135"><strong>...more</strong></a>http://www.werc.usgs.gov/outreach.aspx?RecordID=135http://www.werc.usgs.gov/outreach.aspx?RecordID=135Mon, 14 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT WERC research roundups are now in a biweekly format, complete with PDF version. Check back every two weeks for a run down of new research and events from the USGS Western Ecological Research Center. To add your name to the email distribution list for the PDF newsletter, please contact blandis@usgs <a href="http://www.werc.usgs.gov/outreach.aspx?RecordID=134"><strong>...more</strong></a>http://www.werc.usgs.gov/outreach.aspx?RecordID=134http://www.werc.usgs.gov/outreach.aspx?RecordID=134Mon, 30 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMTWho you callin' a shrimp? With the help of some ecologists, a species of freshwater prawn just might lend a big hand to combating one of the most devastating diseases in Africa. Caused by a trematode parasite, schistosomiasis leads to internal organ and tissue damage in humans, sometimes indu <a href="http://www.werc.usgs.gov/outreach.aspx?RecordID=133"><strong>...more</strong></a>http://www.werc.usgs.gov/outreach.aspx?RecordID=133http://www.werc.usgs.gov/outreach.aspx?RecordID=133Mon, 23 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMT WERC research roundups are now in a biweekly format, complete with PDF version. Check back every two weeks for a run down of new research and events from the USGS Western Ecological Research Center. To add your name to the email distribution list for the PDF newsletter, please contact blandis@usgs <a href="http://www.werc.usgs.gov/outreach.aspx?RecordID=132"><strong>...more</strong></a>http://www.werc.usgs.gov/outreach.aspx?RecordID=132http://www.werc.usgs.gov/outreach.aspx?RecordID=132Fri, 13 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMTDuke the college basketball team may have stumbled out of the gate this March, but Duke the bobcat was able to defeat malnourishment and mange and bounce back to the victory of health and freedom. Bobcats (Lynx rufus) are a common carnivore denizen of suburban southern California, and USGS Wester <a href="http://www.werc.usgs.gov/outreach.aspx?RecordID=131"><strong>...more</strong></a>http://www.werc.usgs.gov/outreach.aspx?RecordID=131http://www.werc.usgs.gov/outreach.aspx?RecordID=131Thu, 12 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMT In February, research cameras located just west of the famed Hollywood Sign in Los Angeles captured photos of a mountain lion (Puma concolor), providing new evidence that mountain lions may utilize corridors to travel between the Santa Monica Mountains and the Griffith Park wilderness. The remote <a href="http://www.werc.usgs.gov/outreach.aspx?RecordID=130"><strong>...more</strong></a>http://www.werc.usgs.gov/outreach.aspx?RecordID=130http://www.werc.usgs.gov/outreach.aspx?RecordID=130Tue, 10 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMT WERC research roundups are now in a biweekly format, complete with PDF version. Check back every two weeks for a run down of new research and events from the USGS Western Ecological Research Center. To add your name to the email distribution list for the PDF newsletter, please contact blandis@usgs <a href="http://www.werc.usgs.gov/outreach.aspx?RecordID=129"><strong>...more</strong></a>http://www.werc.usgs.gov/outreach.aspx?RecordID=129http://www.werc.usgs.gov/outreach.aspx?RecordID=129Sat, 31 Mar 2012 00:00:00 GMT WERC research roundups are now in a biweekly format, complete with PDF version. Check back every two weeks for a run down of new research and events from the USGS Western Ecological Research Center. To add your name to the email distribution list for the PDF newsletter, please contact blandis@usgs <a href="http://www.werc.usgs.gov/outreach.aspx?RecordID=128"><strong>...more</strong></a>http://www.werc.usgs.gov/outreach.aspx?RecordID=128http://www.werc.usgs.gov/outreach.aspx?RecordID=128Thu, 15 Mar 2012 00:00:00 GMT When we hear that verse from “Home on the Range” about where the antelope play, most people aren’t thinking of Bakersfield -- or San Luis Obispo for that matter. Yet halfway between these California cities is the Carrizo Plain National Monument, some 200,000 acres home to the largest remaining re <a href="http://www.werc.usgs.gov/outreach.aspx?RecordID=127"><strong>...more</strong></a>http://www.werc.usgs.gov/outreach.aspx?RecordID=127http://www.werc.usgs.gov/outreach.aspx?RecordID=127Thu, 08 Mar 2012 12:00:00 GMT