I've observed species from across 5 different iconic taxa.
This male Californian Sea Lion appears to be drying himself under the sun as he rests on Pier 39 at San Francisco's Fisherman's Wharf.
This Western Gull is resting at Pier 39 in San Francisco immediately adjacent to a large group of Californian Sea Lions.
This tree is near Moffitt Library at UC Berkeley.
I found this water strider in Strawberry Creek on the UC Berkeley campus.
I found an instance of phytophthora ramorum growing on the bark of a Coast Live Oak on the UC Berkeley campus. This affliction causes sudden oak death and is quite prevalent on the Western United States.
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Nice job Eric - I'm impressed you got Sudden Oak Death in there!
Thanks! A few years back, one of the oak trees in my backyard died because sudden oak death. I recall that when I helped my dad cut up the tree into logs and, later, when I was splitting the logs into firewood, I noticed that a lot of pieces of bark had this weird white stuff growing on it. When I saw the oak tree bark yesterday, I thought back to what I saw a few years prior.
Cool - Maggi Kelly in ESPM at Berkeley does some cool research on sudden oak death you can check out here: http://kellylab.berkeley.edu/oakmapper/
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