Sometimes, there are opportunities to support specific research groups and their work directly. These contributions help advance targeted projects and initiatives within the Center for Watershed Sciences' broader mission. Supporting a particular group allows you to connect with the work that resonates most with you. It’s a meaningful way to make an immediate impact where it matters. Current giving opportunities are listed here:
ARC Research Fund | PI: John Durand
The Aquatic Research Collective—or ARC—is affiliated with the Center for Watershed Sciences at University of California, Davis. ARC is composed of scientists and students interested in the ecology of estuaries, bays, rivers, and wetlands, especially in central California.
A gift to the ARC will support teams of students--especially undergraduates--working on otherwise unfunded conservation projects for neglected but endangered native fishes. One team is working with Sacramento Perch, extirpated from its native Delta habitat, but which still lives in the UC Davis Riparian Reserve. Another team will be working on the unusual ecosystem of the UC Davis Arboretum, focusing on its fishes and water quality. Yet another project, currently under development, is intended to understand the fish communities of Cache Creek, in northern Yolo County. These projects provide students with real research opportunities that result in senior honors theses, and help prepare graduates for post-baccalaureate work. The ARC Conservation Research Fund is specifically intended to train future generations of scientists to engage in meaningful conservation work.
Our research collective is devoted to the understanding and restoration of the “Arc” of native habitats that extend from the riparian corridors of the Sacramento River to the brackish wetlands of Suisun Marsh and the Bay. We are collective and transdisciplinary so as to support new voices and ideas. This makes us a dynamic, creative group that reflects a diversity of perspectives, and produces new approaches to difficult or intractable environmental problems.
To learn more about our research, please check out our website (https://sites.google.com/ucdavis.edu/aquaticresearchcollective/home), or contact Dr. John Durand (jrdurand@ucdavis.edu).
Giving to the ARC Fund
https://give.ucdavis.edu/WATR/ARCCWS1
History of the ARC Fund
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