Santa Cruz Island Reserve

29 May, 05 AM - 01 Jun, 08 AM

Robert Schuster and Albert Grigarick were very active in the area of tardigrade research (late 60's early 70's) and produced the only well cataloged and diverse collection of California (currently housed at UC Davis). Included is a well-documented collection of Santa Cruz Island in 1969, and a publication (1970) of their findings. They collected at 16 different sites on the island including: Pelican Bay and Prisoners Harbor to the North, West and Frazier Points to the west, Johnston Canyon and Coches Prietos on the south, Los Pinos & Del Surl to the east and various interior sites including La Cuesta, and Cascada. As part of our field training and research we would like to retrace Schuster & Grigarick?s (S & G?s) survey of the island. Tardigrades are important sentinel biomonitors of habitat composition and quality. The S & G survey provides us with the unique opportunity to look at changes in patterns of tardigrade diversity and abundance over time. There is virtually nothing in the Tardigrade literature that looks at community changes over longer time periods. sampling of Tardigrades involves taking a small (2cm X 4cm) piece of moss, lichen scrapings, algae etc and processing it in distilled water for 12 hours. tardigrades are then removed and prepared as mounted slides for future ID or placed in lysis to prepare and preserve them for DNA extraction and sequencing.

Visit #12147 @Santa Cruz Island Reserve

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Under Project # 8004 | Research

Tardigrade Resurvey of Santa Cruz Island

faculty - Fresno City College

Reservation Members(s)

Group of 2 Graduate Student May 29 - Jun 1, 2007 (4 days)
Group of 4 Faculty May 29 - Jun 1, 2007 (4 days)
Group of 6 Undergraduate Student May 29 - Jun 1, 2007 (4 days)

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Dorm 12 May 29 - Jun 1, 2007
Jeep 12 May 29 - Jun 1, 2007
Pickup Truck 12 May 29 - Jun 1, 2007