Dr. Gordon Frankie, a professor
of insect biology and a research entomologist
in the College of Natural
Resources at UC
Berkeley, will
speak at the
BPWA winter
program on
Thursday, February
7, at
Redwood Gardens
(2951
Derby St).
Admission is free and
the public is welcome.
Dr. Frankie specializes in plant reproductive
biology, pollination ecology, and solitary-bee
biology in the wild and urban environments
of California and Costa Rica. He also
heads the Urban Bees Research Project,
which documents urban bee diversity
and populations throughout California,
including bees and their
floral hosts in
North Berkeley
residential and
community gardens.
His illustrated talk
for BPWA will focus on Berkeley’s native bees.
He
will discuss whether their population
is decreasing and, if so, what are
the
causes, effects, and possible remedies.
Here are a few links
to more information about Dr. Frankie’s
projects:
http://nature.berkeley.edu/urbanbeegardens/research_history.html
http://nature.berkeley.edu/urbanbeegardens/
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/03/03/HOGIROCUE71.DTL
Directions to Redwood Gardens
Also see Google
map.
Directions to those coming from within
Berkeley:
Go east on Dwight Way to
the stoplight on Dwight and Piedmont
Ave. (the third stoplight after the
ones at Telegraph Ave and College Ave.
Turn right onto Piedmont Ave. Go approximately
0.2 miles to where Piedmont Ave. ends
at Derby St. (you will have passed
the entrance to the Clark Kerr Campus
on your left). Go left on Derby and
proceed 0.1 miles. You should be looking
to your left for a bus shelter next
to an awning with 2951 on it in white
letters. Claremont Blvd. intersects
Derby on your right at this spot.
After
parking, go to the awning and up
some stone steps, walk to your right
a few steps and you will see a sign
directing you to the entrance of the
building we will be in.
Directions from
those entering Berkeley from Caldecott
tunnel
or going east on 580:
Take highway 13 which becomes
Tunnel Road and go to the second
stoplight at the intersection of
Ashby Ave. and Claremont. Turn right
on Claremont Blvd, being careful
to keep to your left as the road
divides (tacquiria restaurant on
traffic island should be on your
right). You are now on Belrose Ave.,
which in a few blocks curves around
to the left onto Derby St. Look for
the bus shelter/awning with 2951
on it in white letters on your right,
and Claremont Blvd. intersecting
Derby on you left. Proceed as above
to enter Redwood Gardens.
Directions from Hwy 80/580 on the bayshore side of
Berkeley:
Take University Ave. exit and proceed 2.3
mile on University Ave. until it ends at Oxford St.
Turn right onto Oxford St., stay in the right lane,
and go 0.5 miles to Dwight Way (Oxford changes name
to Fulton, but nevermind that). Turn left onto Dwight
way, go 0.7 mile to the fifth stoplight at Piedmont
Ave (the previous two stoplights being at Telegraph
Ave and College Ave. Turn right onto Piedmont Ave.,
go 0.1 mile where it ends at Derby (you will pass
the main entrance to the Clark Kerr Campus on your
left). Turn left onto Derby and begin looking on
your left for bus shelter/awning with 2951 on it
in white letters. Claremont Blvd. intersects Derby
on the right at this spot. Proceed as above to enter
Redwood Gardens.
There is parking on both sides of Derby St. and in
adjacent neighborhoods. Leave time for parking and
be careful to cross Derby at the crosswalk right
outside Redwood Gardens as drivers tend to go fast
on Derby St.
