Monthly Archives: August 2016

New Baton Rouge flood map show limits of current risk and planning methods

Posted on August 28, 2016 by UC Davis Center for Watershed Sciences

by Nicholas Pinter, Nicholas Santos, Rui Hui, Kathleen Schaefer The flooding in Baton Rouge and surrounding areas of Louisiana is a major disaster, claiming an estimated 13 lives and displacing more than 100,000 people from their homes. The National Weather … Continue reading →

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Scott Valley pioneers instream flow and groundwater management for reconciled water use

Posted on August 21, 2016 by UC Davis Center for Watershed Sciences

by Gus Tolley The Scott River is one of California’s four major undammed streams and important spawning habitat for coho (a species listed as “threatened”) and Chinook salmon. This peaceful and pastoral agricultural valley is at the center of several … Continue reading →

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Economic Analysis of the 2016 California Drought for Agriculture

Posted on August 15, 2016 by UC Davis Center for Watershed Sciences

by Josué Medellín-Azuara, Duncan MacEwan, Richard E. Howitt, Daniel A. Sumner, and Jay R. Lund The drought continues for California’s agriculture in 2016, but with much less severe and widespread impacts than in the two previous drought years, 2014 and … Continue reading →

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Visualizing Flows – A Sandbox Experience with Modeling

Posted on August 7, 2016 by UC Davis Center for Watershed Sciences

by Jeanette Newmiller In winter quarter 2016, Dr. Colleen Bronner of the UC Davis Department of Civil Engineering gathered a small group of graduate students and posed a challenge. To support new education standards involving teaching engineering methods throughout K-12 … Continue reading →

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