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Bodega Marine Lab keeps watch on ocean temperatures

Ocean waters are warming, sea level is rising, seawater is becoming more acidic, and shoreline erosion is intensifying. The world’s oceans are reacting to increased carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases in the earth’s...

John Largier along the northern California coast. (Photo: Jennifer Sauter/UC Davis)

Posted on Wednesday, May 22, 2013 at 1:51 PM

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Contributor: Ann King Filmer
Author: Robin DeRieux

Tags: aquatic ecosystem (3), Bodega Marine Laboratory (2), climate change (12), ecosystem services (5), flooding (3), global warming (7), greenhouse gas (3), John Largier (1), marine systems (2), ocean warming (1), sea level (1), UC Davis (15)

Jeffrey Mount and the Delta levee blues

Jeffrey Mount, a UC Davis geology professor and the Roy J. Shlemon Chair in Applied Geosciences, was included in “The Sacramento 100” — Sacramento News and Review’s 2010 round-up of the most influential, important and interesting people in...

Posted on Wednesday, January 12, 2011 at 6:21 AM

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Author: Trina Wood

Tags: Delta (2), flooding (3), geology (1), Hurricane Katrina (1), Jeffrey Mount (1), levee system (1), Sacramento News and Review (1), UC Davis Center for Watershed Sciences (4)

Invasive reed arundo is choking state waterways

In the early 1800s, European immigrants introduced the fast-growing giant reed arundo (Arundo donax) into California to use the canes for musical instruments. The plants were also used for erosion control and the reeds used for thatched roofing. However,...

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Posted on Monday, July 19, 2010 at 11:45 AM

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Author: Chris M. Webb

Tags: Arundo (1), erosion (3), fire (3), flooding (3), invasive species (8), native species (3), natural resources (2), water (3), wildlife (13)