Good morning, Davis.

The Outdoor Crew is a student-run hiking, camping, and adventure club with more than 480 members that offers affordable, organized trips with transportation to regional parks and an annual fall road trip to Death Valley; students can find meeting info on Instagram.

The eighth annual Zombie Bike Parade Festival will return Saturday, Oct.

31 with the Zombie Bike Parade 11 a.m.–12:30 p.m. and a central celebration 11 a.m.–3 p.m. at Davis Community Park and downtown; the free, family-friendly event raises money for NorCal Trykers, which has received over $50,000.

Local coffee shops in Davis are serving as community hubs for students and residents, hosting trivia nights, porch performances, art displays, and designated study or tech-free zones at spots like Volt Coffee, Tea & Taps + Cloud Forest Cafe.

The Basement Gallery (student-run) opened its inaugural show About Looking on Oct.

23, letting visitors use flashlights in near-darkness to view 21 works by 20 undergraduate artists; the gallery will host a conversation club today from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. to discuss the exhibition's themes.

Mercy Hawkins' "Waltz of Life & Limb" features sculptural paintings and large-scale watercolors about the body’s ties to nature and climate, and is on display at the Pence Gallery (212 D St.) through Nov.

6; the gallery is open Tuesday–Sunday, 11:30 a.m.–5 p.m.

I-House will host its 13th annual I-Fest from 2 to 9 p.m. on Nov.

7 at the International House, with 20 performing groups, cultural booths, food trucks, and a large Bakuhatsu Taiko Dan drumming performance (volunteers still being sought).

Lillie Vehling, a UC Davis senior and women's water polo player, is this month's guest on Face to Face with Chancellor May to discuss her summer rescue of three girls at Lake Washington, her Swim Ags water-safety work, and her acceptance into the Naval Nuclear Propulsion Officer program.

UC Davis scientists sequenced the genome of Aptostichus stephencolberti, a trapdoor spider named for Stephen Colbert with a 4.6 gigabase genome — about 50% larger than a human's and 52 chromosomes — and the study will guide conservation of coastal-dune populations from the Bay to Monterey threatened by sea-level rise.

At its Oct. 22 meeting, the ASUCD Senate raised the reserves cutoff for stopping RSO funding to 17.5% (about $9,486 of $54,200) and now requires funding requests four weeks before events.

UC Davis men's water polo beat Pacific 13-11 at Schaal Aquatics Center on Oct.

16, using a three-goal fourth-period run to stay 3-0 in Mountain West play and improve to 11-7 overall; they host Saint Mary's at 1 p.m. on Nov. 1.