The California Desert Studies Consortium (CDSC) is a multicampus consortium committed to advancing education and research opportunities in arid-land ecosystems. The consortium operates the CSU’s Desert Studies Center field station in the Mojave National Preserve, a premier location and resource for studying the geology, anthropology and biology—among many other topic areas— of California’s deserts and the American West.
With support from the Judith A. Presch Desert Research Scholarship, Albert Dang and his master’s thesis adviser—Dr. Jeremy Yoder, assistant professor of biology at California State University, Northridge—have used the Desert Studies Center as a base to st
On the shores of ancient Lake Mojave (today’s Soda and Silver Lake playas), Dr. Edward Knell, professor of anthropology at California State University, Fullerton, and Dr. Matthew Kirby, professor of geological sciences at California State University, Full
In the extreme heat of summer, you may find Dr. Eric Routman, professor of biology at San Francisco State, and his bold students looking for lizards on the rocky slopes near the CSU Desert Studies Center at Zzyzx, California.