UC drought summit dives deep in state Capitol

UC Newsroom (April 28, 2014) — California needs to start making smart choices now about how to get the most out of every drop of rainfall, University of California experts said Friday during a daylong summit in the state Capitol to discuss impacts and implications of one the most severe droughts on record. “We will not be able to drought-proof California,” said Jay Lund, director of the UC Davis Center for Watershed Sciences, which organized the UC Drought Science, Policy and Management Summit, attended by a standing-room-only crowd of about 300 people. “We will have to live with droughts.” Also quoted in summit story: Barbara Allen-Diaz, UC vice president for agriculture and natural resources; Glen MacDonald, director of UCLA's Institute of the Environment and Sustainability; Daniel Cayan, climate scientist at UC San Diego; Peter Moyle, UC Davis fish biology professor; Jay Famiglietti, hydrology professor at UC Irvine; Ruth Langridge, researcher at UC Santa Cruz's Center for Global, International and Regional Studies; Scott Stephens, forestry expert at UC Berkeley; and Daniel Sumner, director of the UC Agricultural Issues Center at UC Davis.