@ucmerced research in natural, social, and engineering sciences | Sustainability, Resilience, & Equity | Sierra Nevada, San Joaquin, California, World
Merced, California
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SNRI researchers Emily Williams, Katherine Hegewich, and faculty John Abatzoglou find recent trend of extended drought recovery times, with important implications for climate resilient communities.
Researchers with the @SNRI_UCMerced have found it takes longer to recover from drought as the climate warms. They hope their work and methodologies will help decision-makers as conditions worsen.
Read more about this work here 🔗 ucm.edu/51f9oj
Environmental Systems Grad Group Chair, Emily Moran, and SNRI Faculty Director, Tom Harmon, welcomed faculty, students, and researchers at the 2024 SNRI/ES Fall Welcome. Thanks to all who attended and helped make this a great event to kick off the new semester!
SNRI recently hosted superintendent Scott Borba and his LeGrand Elementary Robotics Club. Thanks to Eleanor King @citris_ucmerced for inspiring drone flight lessons and Carpin lab affiliates for CO2bie environmental robot driving demo.
On Friday, SNRI faculty and grad student researchers helped host the Self Help Enterprises Leadership Institute, designed to help community leaders learn more about the science of hydrology and how to manage their water systems more effectively. @safeeqkhan @selfhelpent
SNRI faculty Director Tom Harmon , and his Labor and Automation in California Agriculture (#LACA) group hosted @dbreznitz , leading scholar on innovation, for a whirlwind tour of challenges and opportunities for green innovation in the #SanJoaquinValley and #SouthernSierra.
SNRI x VISTA & LACA !
Recently, SNRI student assistant, Neil Khapre, assisted Ana Grace Alvarado and Humberto Flores Landero measuring soil CO2 flux values at the Experimental Smart Farm located on campus. Check out some pictures below!
The 2024 Sierra Nevada Science Symposium, hosted this week at @UCMerced, was a resounding success! Two days, 200+ attendees, 61 talks, 47 posters, a deeply inspiring co-stewardship panel with tribal representatives, and Science for Management. More info: tinyurl.com/58fyuh4j
Last weekend's screening of California's Watershed Healing @WildScenicFilms was a success! Special thanks to panel moderator, SYRCL's Aaron Zettler-Mann @yubariverpeople, panelists, and attendees for thoughtful discussion of restoring healthy forests tinyurl.com/up5pntbc
Don't miss @WildScenicFilms film screening of California's Watershed Healing and panel discussion with @WadeCrowfoot, Willie Whittlesey @YubaWater, Eli Elano @Tahoe_NF and @SNRI_UCMerced faculty @rbalesuc and Martha Conklin! #Climatesolutions #SYRCL
Our New Film will be screened at the Wild & Scenic Film Festival in Nevada City, Feb 18. The film "California's Watershed Healing" profiles immediate actions to restore California's wildfire-vulnerable forests. Panel discussion after. ucm.edu/Dsc0vt @TheChroniclesG
A new $2M NSF Award funds research on Robot-farmworker collaborations in agriculture. Read about this and other recent awards to SNRI faculty for research on SJV climate resilience, wildfire behavior, flood risk, Sierra snowmelt, and more! tinyurl.com/3xndzmen
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Tioga Road (continuation of Highway 120 through the park) will not be open for the Independence Day holiday. (6/6)
SNRI Director Tom Harmon @SNRI_UCMerced attended last week’s Carnegie Endowment for International Peace #CarnegieCalifornia launch event in San Francisco. SNRI research informs Labor and Automation in #California #Agriculture, #ClimateChange and #ClimateAction solutions.
TODAY @ 4pm PDT!📢
Join us for the celebratory virtual launch of Carnegie California, and to reflect on the global importance of subnational actors.
RSVP now: bit.ly/3N573Fc
When Tulare Lake flooding upended Allensworth middle and high school students’ summer camp plans, @AllensworthPA coordinated with @ucmerced @4Venir (SEEN), @SNRI_UCMerced, and National Parks Institute @UCM_Extension to host memorable @ucmerced lab tours and a 1st-time YNP visit!
ALT image of Allensworth middle and high school students and group leaders standing at the Yosemite School sign in Yosemite Valley, Yosemite National Park
ALT View of Half Dome from Tunnel View in Yosemite National Park
ALT Aerial view of UC Merced campus
listen to @SNRI_UCMerced's @safeeqkhan talk with @ucanr colleagues about implications of this season's historic snowpack
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Our next @ucanrwater webinar is going to be on Monday 5/22 starting at noon Pacific. We will be hosting Eta Takele, a farm management economist with @ucanr, who will be talking about Avocado production in High Water Cost Region of California. Zoom link: ciwr.ucanr.edu/News_and_Even…
ALT A webinar on "High Density Planting of Avocado in High Water Cost Region of California" by Eta Takele. For Zoom link and additional information on UC ANR Water Webinar, please visit the link: https://ciwr.ucanr.edu/News_and_Events/WaterWebinar/
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UC grad students are invited to apply for the UC Water Academy: Wildfire and Water by Monday, May 29! From August 14-18, we will take grad students on a four-day expedition. @ucmerced @ucdavis @UCLA @UCSanDiego @UCRiverside @ucsantabarbara @ucsc @UCIrvine @UCBerkeley
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Check out this publication on runoff generation mechanisms and thresholds, led by @AlivaNanda
doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.20…
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That is 64000 acres and we are not even near the peak snowmelt, it is going to be worse than the flooding in 83
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Are you a Central Valley college or university student? Join us the weekend of April 21 for the SWF Water Hack Challenge. Prizes up to $2,500! Register at securewaterfuture.net/waterh…
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🎬 @CalNatResources invites you to a screening & discussion of “California's Watershed: Healing” on 4/21/23. Panelists include: Angela Avery @CAsWatershed + Andrew Fecko @PlacerWater + Don Hankins @ChicoState + Nichole Morgan @CA_DWR. Info & RSVP: forms.gle/NCinWPAmmjekz4zN8
