Antioch Earth Team Celebrates 2017-18: A Year of Victories!

June 6, 2018

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The year has come to an end! This year Antioch Earth Team met 42 times, completing over 120 hours of education and training. Meetings including 22 class visits, 17 field visits, and a public event that they hosted! Together, we reached over 334 community members and classmates.  The team planted 295 native plants, administered 30 water quality tests, and removed 8,300 square feet of invasive species!

The highlights of our project were..

  • Freshman Field Trip to the Antioch Dunes: Interns, in partnership with US Fish and Wildlife Service professionals, lead a day
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Skyline Earth Team Celebrates a Successful 2017-18 Year!

June 6, 2018

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The year has come to an end! This year Skyline Earth Team met 42 times, completing over 120 hours of education and training. Meetings including 21 class visits, 14 field visits, and 6 public events, one of which they hosted! Together, we reached over 964 community members and classmates. The team administered 61 water tests, removed 2,300 ft of invasive species, and surveyed 47...

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Skyline Earth Team Wins NASA Award: Sharing Research Findings at Ames Research Center

June 6, 2018

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Representatives from Skyline Earth Team presented their research at the GLOBE Pacific Region Student Research Symposium on May 18th and May 19th 2018. Two young leaders attended the conference of over 100 young scientists and mentors at the NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California.  The two day symposium included a tour of the world’s largest wind tunnel, presentations by NASA researchers and the director of the facility, peer reviews of research projects, and feedback on posters from NASA researchers.

The interns in attendance shared the group’s poster, which focused on...

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Wrapping Up Restoration Efforts at the Antioch Dunes

June 6, 2018

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For their last two field visits of the year, Antioch Earth Team headed out to the Antioch Dunes for a last push of restoration efforts before butterflies begin appearing in late August.  On one day, interns assisted Louis Terrazas in planting around 80 Antioch Dunes Evening Primroses in a site that had been cleared of invasive vegetation.

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