News and Announcements

The 2017 - 2018 SPEAK series has concluded. If you missed out on a SPEAK Workshop this year, you can catch up by watching the video recording of the workshop on our website at watershed.ucdavis.edu/SPEAK/RecordedWorkshops.

CWS is hiring a new Junior Specialist in the Johnson lab, starting this summer. Closing date for applications is May 11th. The job will mainly be lab-based (fish dissection, otolith prepping, reading, and isotope analyses), but there will be opportunities for data analysis, contributing to publications, and occasional field work. The current position is for up to 1 year with the potential for extension.  Please share advertisement widely.  See advertisement here: https://recruit.ucdavis.edu/apply/JPF02128. 

The Muir Institute will be hosting Jonathan B. Jarvis for a special lecture and book signing on his latest book “The Future of Conservation in America: A Chart for Rough Waters.” Nominated by President Obama and confirmed by the Senate in 2009, Mr. Jarvis served as the Director of the National Park Service (NPS) for the entire eight years of the Obama administration. Mr.

Original Story was posted on UC Davis News

Gary S. May, chancellor of the University of California, Davis, and Jay Lund, distinguished professor of civil and environmental engineering and director of the university’s Center for Watershed Sciences, have been elected to the National Academy of Engineering, the academy announced today (Feb. 7).

Contra Costa Water District is looking for interns again this summer.  The Contra Costa Water District is based in Concord and provides drinking water to central and eastern Contra Costa County. Three departments are recruiting: water resources (my group), planning and operations. The water resources group typically seeks graduate students with some modeling experience but we have also hired exceptional undergrads too. All of the information for applicants can be found here: http://www.ccwater.com/601/Apply-for-a-Job.

Applications are now being accepted for the Master of Science in Environmental Policy & Management (EPM) program at UC Davis. The priority application deadline is January 15, 2018. The EPM program, housed within the John Muir Institute of the Environment, provides advanced training in applying environmental science to real-world environmental policy and management issues. The program leverages the position of UC Davis as among the world’s strongest campuses in environmental research and science.

Every year hundreds of undergraduate students at UC Davis share their original work with their professors, peers, community, and families at the Undergraduate Research, Scholarship & Creative Activities Conference. For 29 years, our students have compiled the new knowledge they have acquired—with faculty mentorship—into short presentations, dynamic posters, and rich objects that they then share with others. We have one of the largest of these forums in the country.

Article originally written by Lisa Howard and published by UC Davis Office of Ressearch Nov 8, 2017. The John Muir Institute of the Environment at University of California, Davis, is pleased to announce the selection of six UC Davis experts for its inaugural class of fellows.

Join us on Friday October 27 at 2pm in the CWS Conference Room for the first River Forum Discussion about Instream Flows: New Tools to Quantify Water Quality Conditions for Reutrning Adult Chinook Salmon with Ann Willis.

The discussion will focus on instream flows from a planning and management perspective, and what it takes to go from identifying a need for instream flows to actually putting "wet" water in the stream. 

RSVP and download the paper here. 

Join us this Friday, September 29nd at 1pm for the first SPEAK Workshop "Working with your Press Officer" presented by Kat Kerlin.

RSVP through this link.

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The University of California, Davis Center for Watershed Sciences and California Trout have officially released the State of the Salmonids scientific report.  State of the Salmonids: Status of California’s Emblematic Fishes 2017, dives deeply into the status and trends facing all salmonids in California.  The scientific report accompanies SOS II: Fish in Hot Water, a summary of the scientific report, which was released earlier t

State of the San Francisco Estuary Conference Deadlines
Poster Abstracts: Due July 24th
Jean Auer Award Nominations: Due July 28th
Outstanding Environmental Project Award Nominations:  Due July 28th
 
Call for Poster Abstracts