Highlights:

James Hung will be giving a presentation on native bees titled “Habitat fragmentation erodes multiple components of native bee temporal diversity in coastal sage scrub habitats". James is a PhD Candidate at UC San Diego working with Dr. David Holway. You may recall, last year we sent out a link to an article in the UCSD News Center highlighting James’ work (and calling him the "Lord of the Bees"); you can still view the article online here: http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/feature/lordofthe_bees

James has some colleagues working on a spider barcoding project at the Scripps Coastal Reserve and who are trying to get some crowd funding support. If interested, here is the link to learn more: https://crowdsurf.ucsd.edu/project/876

Also:

Don’t forget the Cal-IPC Annual Symposium is in San Diego next week Oct 28-31, 2015. In particular, on October 29, 2015 there will be a special conference on Habitat Conservation Planning and Invasive Plant Management. Many of our partners will be participating (see the program agenda here: http://www.cal-ipc.org/symposia/pdf/HCPprogram.pdf). You can register now or at the door. For more information on the conference go to: http://www.cal-ipc.org/symposia/

View Regional Announcements here: http://sdmmp.com/Announcements.aspx