The Shed's Jay Lund, Thomas Harter and Helen Dahlke are scheduled to present the California story at the global Water for Food Security conference, Oct. 5-6, which will bring together policymakers, researchers, industry leaders and investors at the UC Davis Conference Center.
Watershed Sciences researchers Helen Dahlke (photo), Graham Fogg, Thomas Harter, Sam Sandoval Solis are exploring a new drought managment strategy that would use cropland as groundwater infiltration basins, to help California get by during droughts.
The California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) this week released the third edition of "California Fish Species of Special Concern" by the Shed's Peter Moyle, alums Rebecca Quiñones and Jacob Katz and Jeff Weaver of CDFW. This is the first update in 20 years and shows continued dramatic decline of California native fishes.
The Shed's Peter Moyle has identified 18 resident California fishes that are likely to vanish if the drought drags on another year or two. See the list of fishes
The drought is tightening its grip on California agriculture, squeezing about 30 percent more workers and cropland out of production than in 2014, according to the latest drought impact report by the UC Davis Center for Watershed Sciences.
The Shed's Peter Moyle and Carson Jeffres and alum Jacob Katz describe the perils of hatcheries and the promise of floodplain nurseries in sustaining California's native runs of salmon in the latest edition of Comstock's.
Accounts from this year’s ever-popular rivers course, taught by Center for Watershed Sciences staff, read more like the Chronicle for Drier Education — thanks to this fourth year of extreme drought.
The drought is expected to be worse for California’s agricultural economy this year because of reduced water availability, according to preliminary estimates released today by the UC Davis Center for Watershed Sciences.
