Monthly Archives: June 2016

How bad is water management in California?

Posted on June 26, 2016 by UC Davis Center for Watershed Sciences

by Jay Lund California’s combination of climate, native ecosystems, and human uses makes water management inherently hard, unsatisfactory, and evolving.  California is doomed to have difficult and controversial water problems. No matter how successful we are. California is one of … Continue reading →

Posted in Drought, Planning and Management | Tagged | 14 Comments

California Water Made Simple

Posted on June 19, 2016 by UC Davis Center for Watershed Sciences

Celebrating end of the academic year, and the need to grade papers, here is a reprise post from January 29, 2014. There’s only so many acre-feet of water jargon the public can absorb during a drought. Here’s a primer that … Continue reading →

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Trump’s Dubious Drought Claims

Posted on June 12, 2016 by UC Davis Center for Watershed Sciences

By Vanessa Schipani This post originally appeared on June 9, 2016 on FactCheck.org. The original post can be found here. Peter Moyle, Associate Director at the UC Davis Center for Watershed Sciences, and Jeffrey Mount, Senior Fellow at the Public … Continue reading →

Posted in California Water, Delta, Delta Smelt, Drought, Fish, Salmon, Uncategorized | Tagged , , | 5 Comments

Cue the Frogs! Water signatures, environmental cues and climate change

Posted on June 5, 2016 by UC Davis Center for Watershed Sciences

By Ryan Peek, Helen Dahlke, and Sarah Yarnell An organism’s success relies on responding to environmental cues that trigger activities such as breeding, migration, feeding, predator evasion, etc. Responses can be finely tuned to specific cues, or may require multiple … Continue reading →

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