Mono Lake is known for its shorebirds—flocks of dainty phalaropes awe us as they fly amongst the tufa, striking black-and-white avocets congregate at the County Park boardwalk, and sandpipers forage on recently exposed mudflats. Even at its unnaturally low level,…
Last month, the Mono Lake Committee celebrated an ecological success thousands of miles away from the Mono Basin. On June 30th, Mar Chiquita, a saline lake located in central Argentina, and its surrounding wetlands were officially granted national park status…
One of my most influential early birding memories involved phalaropes. It was a family trip to Monterey Bay, California around Labor Day, and my sister and I had been interested in birds for a few years, but we weren’t what…
NASA has been coming to Mono Lake for many years, and they are back on our shores once again. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) team arrived last Sunday and set up a mobile laboratory in the Mono Basin Scenic Area Visitor…
On Thursday, June 16, 2022 from 8:30am–12:30pm at the Mono Basin Scenic Area Visitor Center there will be a series of presentations about some of the cutting-edge geobiology research being conducted at Mono Lake by the International Geobiology Course. There…
The Mono Lake Committee is dedicated to the restoration of Mono Lake and recognizes Eared Grebes as one of the bird species of special significance due to the species’ historical and current reliance on Mono Lake. Since 2008, the Mono Lake…
Jen Bayer is an independent scientist with the Silicon Valley Barcode of Life project, which engages people in learning why biodiversity is important to human well-being. Jen stayed at the Mono Basin Field Station this past summer to study arthropod…
As the world closed down in March 2020 in response to the worsening coronavirus pandemic, research groups working in the Mono Basin also packed up and went home. Though a few people were able to return later in the year…
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”…
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…
