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Jan. 13: Hear Peter Moyle on reconciling aquatic ecosystems and economy

 

California Water Policy Seminar Series

Reconciling Ecosystem And Economy

Winter 2014     ~    Mondays, 4:10 pm - 5:30 pm    ~    146 Olson Hall    ~    Open to public


Jan. 6      Tactics for conserving diversity: global vertebrate patterns point the way. Michael Rosenzweig, University of Arizona 

Jan. 13    Applying reconciliation ecology to aquatic ecosystems in California. Peter Moyle and Melanie Truan, UC Davis Department of Wildlife, Fish & Conservation Biology 

Jan. 27    Management, economics and engineering perspectives. Jeff Mount of UC Davis Center for Watershed Sciences leads panel discussion with Jay Zeigler, The Nature Conservancy; Tim Quinn, Association of California Water Agencies; Richard Howitt, UC Davis Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics; and Lester Snow, California Water Foundation

Feb. 3      Regulator perspective. Michael Lauffer, Office of Chief Counsel, State Water Resources Control Board

Feb. 10    Reconciling ecosystem goals for San Francisco Bay. Letitia Grenier, San Francisco Estuary Institute; and Joe LaClair, San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission

Feb. 24    Farms, floods, fowl and fish on the Yolo Bypass. Jay Lund of UC Davis Center for Watershed Sciences leads two 40-minute panel discussions:

- Science panel: Carson Jeffres, Robyn Suddeth, Richard Howitt, William Fleenor - UC Davis Center for Watershed Sciences

- Policy panel: Petrea Marchand​, Yolo County; others TBA 

Mar. 3      Law perspective. Associate Justice Ronald B. Robie, California Court of Appeal; Hap Dunning and Richard Frank, UC Davis School of Law

Mar. 10   Science and ecosystem reconciliation for the Delta. Jay Lund leads panel discussion with Peter Goodwin, state Delta Science Program; Stuart Siegel, Wetlands and Water Resources Inc.; and Robin Grossinger, San Francisco Estuary Institute

Mar. 17    Prospects for ecosystem reconciliation. Ellen Hanak, Public Policy Institute of California


UC Davis sponsors

Center for Watershed Sciences — John Muir Institute of the Environment 

 California Environmental Law and Policy Center — School of Law 

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

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