San Francisco Chronicle (March 21, 2014) — A page-one story describes the Center's onging salmon-rearing experiment on Yolo Bypass rice fields as a "ray of hope" in the farms-vs.-fish water dispute amplified in this year's drought.
San Francisco Chronicle (March 22, 2014) — Center director Jay Lund is prominently quoted in a story about a huge shift away from perrenial crops to more profitable nut trees in The Central Valley, a move that have made farmers more vulnerable to the current drought.
Our ongoing Nigiri Project, a collaborative salmon-rearing experiment on Yolo Bypass rice fields, made for a drought-related cover story in today's San Francisco Chronicle.
A UC Davis Magazine profile of the Center for Watershed Sciences spotlights its field and laboratory director, Carson Jeffres, shown snorkeling on Big Springs Creek near Mount Shasta. The six-page feature also highlights the research group's leadership in the current California drought.
NBC/Bay Area (March 14, 2014) — The current dought (now in it's thrid year) isn't the worst on record for California, said Jay Lund, directyor of the UC Davis Center for Watershed Sciences, “but in the rains that we’ve had in February and early March, we’re pretty much about the 3rd or 4th driest year of record.”
Two UC Davis researchers have each been awarded a $60,000 grant to initiate California river projects.
Jay Lund, director of the Center for Watershed Sciences, and Michael Miller, an assistant professor of genetics, are among 11 recipients announced Friday (March 7) by the Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS).
San Francisco Chronicle (March 8, 2014) — Central Valley farmers tend to see more and bigger dams as a solution to the current water shortage, but many experts believe California can no longer plumb its way out.
The Center for Watershed Sciences is organizing faculty from all UC campuses and other California universities to present a daylong Drought Science, Policy and Management Summit on April 25 at the State Capitol.
