Category Science

February 18, 2021

Science, Stories

Mono Lake and NASA Perseverance rover’s Mars mission

For decades NASA has been involved with research at Mono Lake, and today we watch with extra excitement and pride as the Perseverance rover lands with new scientific instruments partially developed and tested right here at our home planet’s “Martian”…

One man walks with a tripod across his back through a golden field of grass towards snow covered rocks on the shore of Mono Lake.

January 18, 2021

Science

Mono Lake Christmas Bird Count results

The Mono Lake Christmas Bird Count (CBC) is a one-day citizen science effort to tally all the wild birds in the Mono Lake area. The forty-second annual Mono Lake CBC was held on December 22, 2020. Due to COVID-19, the…

A research drone hangs in the air next to a person holding the drone controls on a bright sunny day at Mono Lake with the lake and mountains in the background.

August 26, 2020

Science

Point Blue Conservation Science highlights a four-decade partnership with the Mono Lake Committee

Two researchers sitting in a boat with one holding a baby Osprey, fish eating hawk, while they look at the band on the bird's leg.

August 24, 2020

Science, Videos

Video: Osprey banding at Mono Lake

Person sitting on a boat looking out at Mono Lake in the early morning sun with the mountains in the background.

July 22, 2020

Science

2020 Phalarope surveys begin at Mono Lake

Two california gulls standing on top of a tufa mound with a reflective lake in the background.

July 19, 2020

Protection, Science

California Gulls return to nest on Mono Lake islet after prescribed burn

Sunrise light on a grove of tufa towers emerging from the water of Mono Lake with soft green and dusty-red wild grasses in the foreground, Canada geese in the shallow water with reflections of the rocky towers, and desert hills in the distance.

June 24, 2020

Science

Jeff Maurer Chautauqua Research Grant recipients

Sunrise light on a grove of tufa towers emerging from the water of Mono Lake with soft green and dusty-red wild grasses in the foreground, Canada geese in the shallow water with reflections of the rocky towers, and desert hills in the distance.

December 28, 2019

Science

Connie Millar honored with American Geophysical Union’s Ambassador Award

Sunrise light on a grove of tufa towers emerging from the water of Mono Lake with soft green and dusty-red wild grasses in the foreground, Canada geese in the shallow water with reflections of the rocky towers, and desert hills in the distance.

November 4, 2019

Science

Phalarope researchers and their muses flock to Mono Lake

Sunrise light on a grove of tufa towers emerging from the water of Mono Lake with soft green and dusty-red wild grasses in the foreground, Canada geese in the shallow water with reflections of the rocky towers, and desert hills in the distance.

October 20, 2019

Science

For the love of grebes