Increased frequency and severity of droughts threatens California’s endangered salmon population—but pools that serve as drought refuges could make the difference between life and death for these vulnerable fish. Read more in our new study, led by Ross Vander Vorste, published in Global Change Biology!
Author: tgrantham
Streamflows Aren’t What They Used to Be
Human activities have caused flows in many of the Nation’s streams and rivers to be different from what they would be naturally. A new USGS study reports that, at a national scale, human management of land and water resources have modified natural patterns of streamflow along an estimated 1.2 million stream miles—more than one-third—of the Nation’s streams and rivers.
Preparing California’s Rivers for a Changing Climate
CalAg Special Issue on Cannabis
Interested in the environmental impacts of cannabis production? How are cannabis cultivators responding to California’s new legal market? What is the state of cannabis research in the University of California? For answers to these questions and more, check out the latest special issue of California Agriculture
Stream flow modeling tools inform environmental water policy in California
Check out our new paper, published in a Special Issue in California Agriculture that explores how research informs policy-making
Launch of the Cannabis Research Center at UC Berkeley
We are excited to officially open a new research center at UC Berkeley, focusing on the environmental and social dimensions of cannabis agriculture in California.
Check out our write-up in BerkeleyNews, a blog post by co-director Eric Biber at the UC Berkeley Law School, and our new website for more information.
A functional flows approach to managing environmental water
Our latest post in CaliforniaWaterBlog describes how environmental outcomes can be improved when water is allocated using a functional flow approach. Read more here!
Five key lessons from the UC Water Academy
In the latest issues of Breakthroughs, the magazine of the College of Natural Resources, we identify five key lessons from our experiential education course, the UC Water Academy.
Looking for an overview of California Water in 2018?
The Public Policy Institute of California has released a briefing kit on managing California’s water, highlighting the state’s most pressing issues including climate change, drought, headwater forest management, and securing safe drinking water supplies to disadvantaged communities.
Getting strategic about freshwater biodiversity conservation in California
Read our latest post on CaliforniaWaterBlog:
Getting Strategic about Freshwater Biodiversity Conservation in California
