Photo by Zhengxian Jin, Yellow Bittern (Ixobrychus sinensis), Shanghai, China, 2025.
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Apr 20, 2026
MVZ Lunch Seminar 12pm PDT Wednesday, April 22, 2026Join us as Jackie Galvez, Ph.D Candidate, Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, UC Berkeley discusses, "Impacts of intermittent damming on morphological variation across temporal and spatial axes in steelhead trout."

