http://ucanr.org/blogs/JMIE_Blog/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS%2BFeed Campus research related to climate change en-us UC ANR http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/rss/ Sat, 31 Jan 2009 11:54:04 PST Sat, 31 Jan 2009 11:54:04 PST The Carnegie Foundation's Tom Ehrlich recently contributed an academic perspective on how education failed to address our current economic troubles in Carnegie Perspectives. In his article he notes that "During the economic boom, many in the academy expressed concern about the extent to which greed had become a dominant motive in American life. But few of us objected to increases in our retirement accounts or pressed very hard to find out why the steady rise in the value of our homes not...... Sat, 31 Jan 2009 11:54:04 PST http://ucanr.org/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=984&utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS%2BFeed sjklahorst@ucdavis.edu(Suanne Klahorst) http://ucanr.org/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=984 October 22-24, 2008, Sacramento Convention Center It you want to talk to anyone about the Delta at the end of October, you will find them at this conference. I counted 48 presentations (about 20% of the total) and 40 posters (about 50% of the total) by UC Davis faculty and students. I think we can say that water quality, aquatic systems, environmental justice and land use and strengths for our campus. Climate change has a daylong session. One talk, not one of ours, is entitled, "Sea...... Thu, 18 Sep 2008 15:42:03 PST http://ucanr.org/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=656&utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS%2BFeed sjklahorst@ucdavis.edu(Suanne Klahorst) http://ucanr.org/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=656 The half day Delta Smelt "workshop" in Kemper Hall last week was a fascinating look at heroic efforts to save a "vanishing" species. If there are smelt remaining in the Sac-San Joaquin Delta, and a US Fish and Wildlife researcher assured me that there are, they are getting harder to locate. That poses a big problem for research, since you can't study what you can't find. Nonetheless, studies are in progress and waiting for smelt. The UC Davis staff in Byron, California is......
]]> Tue, 20 May 2008 19:02:42 PST http://ucanr.org/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=423&utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS%2BFeed sjklahorst@ucdavis.edu(Suanne Klahorst) http://ucanr.org/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=423 The John Muir Institute of the Environment has been hosting a Speaker Series entitled, Climate Change Solutions and Implementations since January. It is now wrapping up with a panel discussion, May 22, at UC Davis. We have summarized all the presentations into bulleted highlights that you can view on our web site: http://johnmuir.ucdavis.edu/events/climatesolutions.html Our panel discussion is an attempt to create a "climate change commons" where solutions in common can be...... Fri, 09 May 2008 14:50:59 PST http://ucanr.org/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=399&utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS%2BFeed sjklahorst@ucdavis.edu(Suanne Klahorst) http://ucanr.org/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=399