Data for Lunch: Developing Drought Early Warning Systems in California

Join us on Tuesday, June 17, 12-1:30pm PT for "Developing Drought Early Warning Systems in California", a virtual seminar by Center for Watershed Sciences Associate Director, Dr. Alvar Escriva-Bou, hosted by the California Water Data Consortium! Learn how a collaborative approach to linking water data to sector-specific impacts can better prepare communities for climate vulnerabilities and more effective drought responses across the state and beyond.

The UC Davis Center for Watershed Sciences (CWS) was recently featured in a CBS News Bay Area segment about the research being conducted on salmon ear bones - known as otoliths - and about the restoration efforts that brought the salmon back to Putah Creek.

The Winnemem Wintu tribe’s connection to the winter-run chinook salmon (known as Nur by the tribe) runs deep. The Nur are a part of the creation stories told for generations.

“When we first bubbled out of our sacred spring on Mt. Shasta at the time of creation, we were helpless and unable to speak. It was salmon, the Nur, who took pity on us humans and gave us their voice. In return, we promised to always speak for them.” – Winnemem Wintu Spiritual and Cultural Belief.

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The Center for Watershed Sciences (CWS), with partner CalTrout, hosted an International Salmon Conservation Delegation on campus at CWS and at study sites across the Sacramento Valley floodplains and wetlands. The attendees included delegates from the British Columbia Provincial and Canadian Crown governments, representatives from the Okanagan, Seabird and Sumas First Nations (including Sumas Chief Dalton Silver), and representatives of the Pacific Salmon Foundation.