News and Announcements

Six UC Davis affiliated students, scientists, and professors will swim in the 42nd Annual Trans Tahoe Relay to raise awareness of watershed protection and water research. For the second year in a row, the Women for Water Research team will be swimming the 10-mile stretch for the Tahoe Environmental Research Center (TERC) and Center for Watershed Sciences (CWS). TERC’s discoveries and methods are used to support policy decisions at Lake Tahoe and to help aid research efforts at other lakes around the world.

The Center for Watershed Sciences is looking for two field-hardy, ecology-oriented students this summer to assist in a research project investigating the habitat-use of Sierra Nevada Yellow-Legged Frogs (Rana sierrae) in high elevation streams.  Please see attached for details. 

The California Extreme Precipitation Symposium is an informal day of scientific and technical presentations meant to increase our knowledge and understanding of extreme precipitation events. Goals of CEPSYM are to improve flood risk management planning and increase warning time for large floods.

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Monday, July 9, 2018 New date
UC Davis Conference Center

Theme: Paleoclimate Insights for Planning Future Water Resources in California

10th Biennial Bay-Delta Science Conference: Our Estuary at an Intersection 
2018 Bay-Delta Science Conference Abstracts due April 23, 2018

The UC Water Academy is a spring/summer intensive course about California’s most precious resource.

This class is a unique opportunity to learn about CA water from a variety of faculty across the larger UC system, as well as a chance for students to meet and interact with other UC students working on water-related issues at different campuses.  Lectures and discussions take place online during spring semester (2nd half winter quarter and spring quarter), and the field excursion takes place following the end of spring quarter.   

The Center for Watershed Sciences is hosting a weekly series of public speakers on the Science and Policy of Environmental Flows in California winter, beginning Jan. 17. 

The California Water Policy Seminar Series is on Wednesdays, 4:10 pm to 5:30 pm, at 3001 Plant and Environmental Sciences, UC Davis. 

The series is open to the public and available for credit. [Graduates: 1 unit as HYD 298 (CRN 58954)]

A coalition of Dulcepamba residents and their supporters contacted researchers from the Center for Watershed Sciences (CWS) at the University of California, Davis and asked them to complete a forensic analysis of the March 2015 flood and model the hydrology of the watershed. The UC Davis researchers developed (1) a hydrologic model of Dulcepamba basin; and (2) a hydraulic model to assess hydraulic and geomorphic processes associated with the March 2015 flood.

Read the UC Davis news story here.

The Sacramento River Winter-Run salmon is one of NOAA Fisheries' Species in the Spotlight. The study showed salmon used these habitats. In total, the researchers found evidence that the winter-run juvenile salmon were using some combination of Battle, Deer, Mill and Antelope creeks in the northern Central Valley, as well as the Feather and American rivers further south, and the Delta at the confluence of the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers."

The State Water Resources Control Board (State Water Board)’s Division of Water Rights has an opening for one Water Resource Control Engineer position in the Public Trust Unit of the Bay-Delta Section. Public Trust Unit staff develop, evaluate, and implement flow, water quality and related requirements in the Bay-Delta and its tributaries, and related plans, policies, and regulations.

Final Filing Date: 11/14/17

"Hetch Hetchy Water and Power (HHWP) is recruiting applicants for a 5148 Water Operations Analyst – which has a working title of Hydrologist. We anticipate to fill two positions from this posting. HHWP operates 3 reservoirs in the Sierra’s along with 3 powerhouses. HHWP operates as part of the Hetch Hetchy Regional Water System (HHRWS) – supplying about 85% of the HHRWS’ water to ~2.7 million customers in the Bay Area.

Congraluations Dr. Josué Medellín-Azuara on becoming the 2017 Steyer-Taylor Fellow. This is the second year of a three-year fellowship―supported with funding from the TomKat Foundation, established by Tom Steyer and Kat Taylor―to explore solutions to some of California’s toughest groundwater policy challenges.

The Riparian Summit: Confluence to Influence will be held October 17-19, 2017 at the University of California, Davis. The 3-day summit will bring together a wide range of people interested in riparian landscapes, including restoration practitioners, land managers, policymakers, private landowners, artists, and scientists, to share knowledge and strategies for managing, protecting, and restoring California’s riparian ecosystems.