BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//jEvents 2.0 for Joomla//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Tijuana BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20241103T010000 RDATE:20250309T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:America/Tijuana PST END:STANDARD BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20251102T010000 RDATE:20260308T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:America/Tijuana PST END:STANDARD BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20261101T010000 RDATE:20270314T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:America/Tijuana PST END:STANDARD BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20271107T010000 RDATE:20280312T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:America/Tijuana PST END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20240625T190000 RDATE:20241103T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:America/Tijuana PDT END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20250309T030000 RDATE:20251102T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:America/Tijuana PDT END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20260308T030000 RDATE:20261101T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:America/Tijuana PDT END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20270314T030000 RDATE:20271107T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:America/Tijuana PDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:fe1d869d196b1bf7c63ad58902a58d92 CATEGORIES:Native Plant Talks CREATED:20250619T084950 SUMMARY:California's Vegetation Communities Through Time LOCATION:Los Altos Library\, 13 S. San Antonio Road\, Los Altos DESCRIPTION:California's iconic landscapes and vegetation communities have long been sh aped by dynamic climate and terrestrial processes. Often, changes in these forces are what can push an ecosystem to transition to a different, yet sta ble, state. In this talk, Dr. Katie Glover will draw upon her research in p aleoecology that used California's fossil record from lake cores and the La Brea Tar Pits to show how ecosystems shifted in response to climate change and fire during the last Ice Age. The tools and botanical evidence used in these studies are powerful to help us understand landscape response before human-induced impacts, and to inform the changes we can expect in a warmer world. Yet one doesn't have to be a trained paleoecologist to imagine – an d teach about – past worlds. We live in a time and place with rich educatio nal resources and access to natural spaces, which can help teach the next g eneration how to spot the evidence for ecosystem transitions.\nDr. Katie Gl over has a lifelong love for lakes and landscapes, which led to many years teaching environmental science curriculum, and researching Ice Age landscap e change in North America. During her Ph.D. in Geography at UCLA, she devel oped a 120,000-year environmental history from lake sediment cores in the S an Bernardino Mountains and worked with the La Brea Tar Pits fossil plant c ollection. Katie is the Associate Director of Environmental Education at Ja sper Ridge Biological Preserve (‘Ootchamin ‘Ooyakma), and is grateful that she can highlight the beauty and complexity of California's native ecosyste ms every day to students, docents, colleagues, and visitors.\n X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

California's iconic landscapes and vegetation communities have long been shaped by dynamic climate and terrestrial processes. Often, changes in the se forces are what can push an ecosystem to transition to a different, yet stable, state. In this talk, Dr. Katie Glover will draw upon her resea rch in paleoecology that used California's fossil record from lake cores an d the La Brea Tar Pits to show how ecosystems shifted in response to climat e change and fire during the last Ice Age. The tools and botanical evidence used in these studies are powerful to help us understand landscape respons e before human-induced impacts, and to inform the changes we can expect in a warmer world. Yet one doesn't have to be a trained paleoecologist to imag ine – and teach about – past worlds. We live in a time and place with rich educational resources and access to natural spaces, which can help teach th e next generation how to spot the evidence for ecosystem transitions.
Dr. Katie Glover has a lifelong love for lakes and landscapes, which led to many years teaching environmental science curriculum, and researching Ice Age landscape change in North America. During her Ph.D. in Geography at UCL A, she developed a 120,000-year environmental history from lake sediment co res in the San Bernardino Mountains and worked with the La Brea Tar Pits fo ssil plant collection. Katie is the Associate Director of Environmental Edu cation at Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve (‘Ootchamin ‘Ooyakma), and is gr ateful that she can highlight the beauty and complexity of California's nat ive ecosystems every day to students, docents, colleagues, and visitors.

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