Policymakers, hydrologists, legal experts, economists and water managers will discuss California's management of groundwater -- past, present and future -- in a series of nine presentations, starting Monday, Jan 5, at the UC Davis School of Law, Room 2303. All sessions open to public.
The Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta and Suisun Marsh are "novel ecosystems" that function almost completely differently than the ecosystems in which they evolved. The prominent California fish biologist Peter Moyle made this case at the October 2014 Bay-Delta Science Conference in Sacramento, and Chris Austin summarized the presentation today in her Maven's Notebook blog.
Apply by Friday, Jan. 30
Email applications to Joyce Boulanger [email protected]
More information and application package available at CABA website: http://caba.ucdavis.edu
Miss last week's science symposium on the Yolo Bypass? Miss no more. Complete video coverage is now available, thanks to the Center for Aquatic Biology & Aquaculture.
Researchers will be discussing ways Yolo Bypass farmers and landowners could economically support native salmon and water birds Tuesday, Dec. 9 at a UC Davis symposium free and open to the public.
Los Angeles Times - Online (August 20, 2014) - California over the last century has issued water rights that amount to roughly five times the state’s average annual runoff, according to new research that underscores a chronic imbalance between supply and demand.
San Francisco Chronicle - Online (August 23, 2014) - Geologists have long discredited the practice, saying successful dowsing is simply the result of water being hard to miss in many areas, according to the U.S. Geological Survey, an independent federal research agency in the Department of Interior that studies groundwater.
Los Angeles Times - Online (September 7, 2014) - It could be decades, experts say, before the most depleted groundwater basins recover under the legislation, which is a historic step in a state that long resisted managing a key water source. For some experts, that is too long.
Christian Science Monitor - Online (September 11, 2014) - “When you think about 38 million Californians, it sometimes seems like steering a huge oil tanker, but when public policy makers and media finally focus on it, it can finally come together – and has,” says Richard Frank, professor of environmental practice at the University of California, Davis.
Bloomberg Businessweek - Online (September 17, 2014) - California is finally joining the rest of western U.S. states to regulate how it pumps and protects its groundwater.
