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by Tiffany Dobbyn May 28, 2024

Weather forecasting is a complex and challenging task. But UC Davis graduate student Allan Lee is up for that challenge.

Dr. Kosana Suvocarev was awarded ~ $3.5m from CAL-FIRE to co-lead the study on redwood’s forest health with Housen Chu from LBNL and other researchers across the two institutions (Holly Oldroyd, Troy Magney, Kyaw Tha Paw U, Sebastien Biraud, and Stephen Chan). The team will establish two forest integrated forest observatories with state-of-the-art measurements to generate continuous dataset of 100+ variables critical for redwoods forest health, management and climate change adaptation.

In March, PhD candidate Erica Edwards was awarded one of 16 Western Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (SARE) grants for 2024, under the advisory of Drs. Mallika Nocco and Ruth Dahlquist-Willard. The Western SARE Graduate Student Research & Education Program invites students to partner with producers and growers for innovative research, promoting collaborative outreach on key topics in sustainable agriculture.

Kelsey Fenn was selected to receive a Western SARE Graduate Research and Education grant ($29,984) funding her project titled ‘Physical Soil Health and Water Storage Dynamics of a Novel, Perennial Cover Crop in California Almond Orchards’ under the advisory of Dr. Mallika Nocco and Dr. Cristina Lazcano. Her project partners with almond growers in the Central Valley to address emerging changes to structural soil properties and soil carbon pools from a perennial cover crop.

• by Kat Kerlin
• March 08, 2024

Climate change is driving both the loss of biodiversity and the need for clean, renewable energy. It is also shifting where species are expected to live in the future. Yet these realities are rarely considered together. Where can clean energy projects be built without impacting the future habitat ranges of threatened and endangered species?