Grantham Lab – Freshwater Science & Management

Bridging ecology and hydrology to inform sustainable water management

Managing freshwater resources under climate change

Cannabis agriculture at risk from wildfire

Wildfires are an increasing threat to people’s lives, property and livelihoods, especially in rural California communities. Cannabis, one of California’s most lucrative commercial crops, may be at a higher risk of loss from wildfire because it is mostly confined to

Why and where do streams go dry?

PhD candidate Hana Moidu explores this question in her article on California WaterBlog and a recent paper published in Water Resources Research! And an amazing graphical summary of her study is provided here:

New publications on the California Environmental Flows Framework

We recently published a series of papers in a Special Issue of Frontiers in Environmental Science focused on “Environmental Flows in an Uncertain Future.” Stein et al. (2022) provide an overview of the California Environmental Flows Framework (CEFF). Grantham et

Shifting geography of cannabis cultivation in California

Chris Dillis, a postdoctoral researcher in our lab and affiliate of the Berkeley Cannabis Research Center, led a study documenting how the geography of legal cannabis market is changing in California. The study suggests that the cannabis industry is following

Bridging ecology and hydrology to inform sustainable water management

Managing freshwater resources under climate change

Environmental flow science

Spatial conservation planning

Lab News

Cannabis agriculture at risk from wildfire

Why and where do streams go dry?

New publications on the California Environmental Flows Framework

Shifting geography of cannabis cultivation in California