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 Level Rise, what is the water engineer to do with all those projections?"  Clearly there are those in regulation who aren't sure what do to with all this research.  Is science-based decision making still the exception rather than the rule?

Applied interdisciplinary research solves environmental problems, but might there be more interpretation of the volumes of data collected over decades of monitoring?  And those of you who read the Sacramento Bee know what that means, more data interpretation to fight over!