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SNRI researchers Emily Williams, Katherine Hegewich, and faculty John Abatzoglou find recent trend of extended drought recovery times, with important implications for climate resilient communities.

Environmental Systems Grad Group Chair, Emily Moran, and SNRI Faculty Director, Tom Harmon, welcomed faculty, students, and researchers at the 2024 SNRI/ES Fall Welcome. Thanks to all who attended and helped make this a great event to kick off the new semester!

SNRI recently hosted superintendent Scott Borba and his LeGrand Elementary Robotics Club. Thanks to Eleanor King @citris_ucmerced for inspiring drone flight lessons and Carpin lab affiliates for CO2bie environmental robot driving demo.

On Friday, SNRI faculty and grad student researchers helped host the Self Help Enterprises Leadership Institute, designed to help community leaders learn more about the science of hydrology and how to manage their water systems more effectively. @safeeqkhan @selfhelpent

SNRI faculty Director Tom Harmon , and his Labor and Automation in California Agriculture (#LACA) group hosted @dbreznitz , leading scholar on innovation, for a whirlwind tour of challenges and opportunities for green innovation in the #SanJoaquinValley and #SouthernSierra.

SNRI x VISTA & LACA ! Recently, SNRI student assistant, Neil Khapre, assisted Ana Grace Alvarado and Humberto Flores Landero measuring soil CO2 flux values at the Experimental Smart Farm located on campus. Check out some pictures below!

The 2024 Sierra Nevada Science Symposium, hosted this week at @UCMerced, was a resounding success! Two days, 200+ attendees, 61 talks, 47 posters, a deeply inspiring co-stewardship panel with tribal representatives, and Science for Management. More info: tinyurl.com/58fyuh4j

Last weekend's screening of California's Watershed Healing @WildScenicFilms was a success! Special thanks to panel moderator, SYRCL's Aaron Zettler-Mann @yubariverpeople, panelists, and attendees for thoughtful discussion of restoring healthy forests tinyurl.com/up5pntbc

Don't miss @WildScenicFilms film screening of California's Watershed Healing and panel discussion with @WadeCrowfoot, Willie Whittlesey @YubaWater, Eli Elano @Tahoe_NF and @SNRI_UCMerced faculty @rbalesuc and Martha Conklin! #Climatesolutions #SYRCL

A new $2M NSF Award funds research on Robot-farmworker collaborations in agriculture. Read about this and other recent awards to SNRI faculty for research on SJV climate resilience, wildfire behavior, flood risk, Sierra snowmelt, and more! tinyurl.com/3xndzmen

Tioga Road (continuation of Highway 120 through the park) will not be open for the Independence Day holiday. (6/6)

SNRI Director Tom Harmon @SNRI_UCMerced attended last week’s Carnegie Endowment for International Peace #CarnegieCalifornia launch event in San Francisco. SNRI research informs Labor and Automation in #California #Agriculture, #ClimateChange and #ClimateAction solutions.

When Tulare Lake flooding upended Allensworth middle and high school students’ summer camp plans, @AllensworthPA coordinated with @ucmerced @4Venir (SEEN), @SNRI_UCMerced, and National Parks Institute @UCM_Extension to host memorable @ucmerced lab tours and a 1st-time YNP visit!

listen to @SNRI_UCMerced's @safeeqkhan talk with @ucanr colleagues about implications of this season's historic snowpack

Our next @ucanrwater webinar is going to be on Monday 5/22 starting at noon Pacific. We will be hosting Eta Takele, a farm management economist with @ucanr, who will be talking about Avocado production in High Water Cost Region of California. Zoom link: ciwr.ucanr.edu/News_and_Event…

UC grad students are invited to apply for the UC Water Academy: Wildfire and Water by Monday, May 29! From August 14-18, we will take grad students on a four-day expedition. @ucmerced @ucdavis @UCLA @UCSanDiego @UCRiverside @ucsantabarbara @ucsc @UCIrvine @UCBerkeley

Check out this publication on runoff generation mechanisms and thresholds, led by @AlivaNanda doi.org/10.1016/j.jhyd…

That is 64000 acres and we are not even near the peak snowmelt, it is going to be worse than the flooding in 83

Are you a Central Valley college or university student? Join us the weekend of April 21 for the SWF Water Hack Challenge. Prizes up to $2,500! Register at securewaterfuture.net/waterhackchall…

@CAwildfireTF @CalNatResources @CAsWatershed @PlacerWater @ChicoState @CA_DWR RSVP: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

🎬 @CalNatResources invites you to a screening & discussion of “California's Watershed: Healing” on 4/21/23. Panelists include: Angela Avery @CAsWatershed + Andrew Fecko @PlacerWater + Don Hankins @ChicoState + Nichole Morgan @CA_DWR. Info & RSVP: forms.gle/NCinWPAmmjekz4…