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🌟 Hot off the press! Check out how Bren alumni are making strides in environmental science in our latest newsletter.
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Congratulations to Marissa Sisk MESM '24 for her feature in a recent @CNET article on young women powering America's clean energy transition. Read more at the link!
cnet.com/home/energy-and-uti…
Exciting News! "Slam Dunk Job Search" by Dave Parker is now available! Dave has worked with Bren for decades now, and shares his wisdom about how to turn your career aspirations into reality. #SlamDunkJobSearch #CareerGoals amazon.com/Slam-Dunk-Job-Sea…
Data from over 17,000 wells and aquifers worldwide shows groundwater supply is rapidly decreasing. These concerning findings and the interventions that successfully reversed the trend are summarized in this new video:
youtube.com/watch?v=H1OhKb3q…
Groundwater is a finite resource, yet it sustains millions of people. Dr. Scott Jasechko and his co-authors believe there is still time to solve this problem. Their recent paper in @nature identifies three interventions to successfully reverse this trend. nature.com/articles/s41586-0…
Professor @ranjit_energy was recently interviewed by KQED to provide insight on a handful of critical challenges and opportunities that California faces in meeting its goal of 100% clean power by 2045. Read the interview at the following link!
kqed.org/science/1985611/is-….
We are excited to announce that Bren PhD student Rachel Torres is defending her dissertation on December 8 at 10:00 PT at Bren Hall 1414!
Don’t miss the opportunity to discover the insights from her pivotal research!
bren.ucsb.edu/events/beyond-…
Congratulations to Bren Professor Ranjit Deshmukh (@ranjit_energy) both for his recent publication, and having his work cited in the @nytimes!
The article is an interesting read, and we invite you to get the full story here:
nytimes.com/2023/10/23/clima…
"Oil drilling makes up <1% of the state’s GDP & accounts for about 0.2% of its employment," says emLab's @ranjit_energy, who co-authored a paper on the economic impacts of CA’s decarbonization policies. Read the full @nytimes article on CA climate policy nytimes.com/2023/10/23/clima…
Bren PhD student Stephen Whitaker is defending his dissertation on December 5 from 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. PT at Bren Hall Dean’s Conference Room (2436)!
Join us to learn more about Stephen's groundbreaking research during his academic journey.
bren.ucsb.edu/events/assessi…
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Professor Oran Young is the Mohn Prize Laureate for 2024! The professor at The Bren School of Environmental Science & Management (@BrenUCSB)
is awarded for his leading research and #geopolitical work on the #Arctic. Read more at en.uit.no/mohnprize
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The first Decadal Management Review of California's #MPA Network is here! 📜 Find out more about the @ucsb_nceas #synthesisscience working group that contributed to the review 🐟
Explore the findings in the latest #EDFish Blog: edf.org/Z6mN
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When groundwater flows to the surface without pumping, it’s an artesian well. A hundred years ago, they were common. There is even a city in CA named Artesia.
But new research from @aeliz_hilton and @sjasechko shows that pumping has made these wells much less common @BrenUCSB
📢 Calling all future Bren students 📢
Our applications for Fall 2024 have opened!
Still haven't decided on whether or not to apply? Register for an upcoming webinar or join us for Open House on November 3 for more information.
bren.ucsb.edu/open-house
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Multiple ecosystems in hot water after marine heatwave surges across the Pacific – our new #OpenAccess paper published today in @GlobalChangeBio shows that even ecological communities protected from fishing are vulnerable to sweltering seas, a 🧵 (1/6).
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
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Designing transfer payments to reduce crop burning in India - Kelsey Jack (@BrenUCSB), Seema Jayachandran @seema_econ (@Princeton), Namrata Kala (@MITSloan) and Rohini Pande (@YaleEGC)
Read more: ideasforindia.in/topics/envi…
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@ARochaUSA @CreationCare #heatwaves
@leahstokes of @BrenUCSB @degreespod speaks on #extremeheat #climatechange #globalwarming #AGW #attributionscience study by @WWAttribution
Human-caused climate change is fueling global weather extremes, new study says
youtube.com/watch?v=QrRkKTXn…
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very exciting workshop earlier this week with Government of Ghana partners on our clean household energy transition collaboration (@KhrcGhana + @BrenUCSB + @ColumbiaMSPH)
The Combating Household Air Pollution(CHAP) team comprising @khrcghana,@Columbia and @UofCalifornia supported by the Columbia World Projects (CWP), this year successfully organized another stakeholders’ workshop involving more stakeholders to discuss CWP phase II study activities
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Conservation dogs in action at the #DangermondPreserve 🐶. Barley & Scottie are detection dogs trained by K9 Conservationists. This week they are helping Dr.@RaeWynnGrant & @BrenUCSB researchers sniff out scat from wildlife in order to analyze their diets 🐾
📸: E. Hiroyasu
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“Prescribed burns offer the rare opportunity to collect pre-fire data in addition to the post-fire data that’s normally available with wildfires,” says @brenucsb student Kaili Brande at a @nature_org training exchange at #UCSB’s Sedgwick Reserve. (5/8)
ALT A burning hillside at Sedgwick Reserve starts to die down, as participants in the burn survey the area.