UC Davis Eco-Events
2009
- August 11 - December 4: Fall Courses in Conflict Resolution from UC Davis Extension
- November 23: Formation and Reactivity of Biogenic Manganese Nanoparticles: Implications for Natural Attenuation and Bioremediation
- November 23: Agrobiodiversity Conservation and Food Security - NEW
- November 24: Fantasies and Fears: Reading Eco-City Development in Shanghai - UPDATED
- November 28: Loop Trail
- December 2: Authorship and Publication
- December 2: Reducing Vehicle Miles Traveled and the Built Environment: from planning to policy to action
- December 4: Mini-Charette: Your Ideas for a Sustainable Campus
- December 5: Animal Tracking
- December 6: Gesture Drawing
- December 6: Birdman
- December 7: New Media and Agricultural Health and Safety: Is My Space Really Our Space?
- December 9: Assembling California and Western Nevada: Point Reyes to Lake Tahoe
- December 12: Botanical Drawing
- December 20: Winter Solstice
2010
- January 4: DPR’s Monitoring Network
- January 9-23: Guide Training
- January 13 - February 22: UC Davis Extension Announces Winter Courses in Conflict Resolution
- June 15-17: Toward Sustainable Groundwater in Agriculture
Fall Courses in Conflict Resolution from UC Davis Extension
Date: | August 11 - December 4, 2009 |
Location: | Sutter Square Galleria |
Web site: |
Contact: | To request more information or to enroll, call (800) 752-0881. |
The UC Davis Extension offers a variety of courses for novice and experienced professionals in the mediation and conflict resolution fields. With 50 years of excellence in adult education, UC Davis Extension can help students accelerate their careers, explore an interest or prepare for a career shift. Courses and free informational sessions are listed on the Web site. Group discounts are available.
MODIFIED ON: 7/14/2009
Environmental and Water Resources Engineering Takashi Asano and Ray B. Krone Seminar Series
Formation and Reactivity of Biogenic Manganese Nanoparticles: Implications for Natural Attenuation and Bioremediation
Jasquelin Pena, UC Berkeley
Date: | November 23, 2009 |
Time: | 4-5:00 p.m. |
Location: | 3102B Engineering III |
This seminar series is sponsored by the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. It is available for credit as ECI 296: Topics in Water and Environmental Engineering. The Fall 2009 meetings will be Mondays, 4-5 pm.
MODIFIED ON: 11/13/2009
Agrobiodiversity Conservation and Food Security
Dr. Debal Deb, Center for Interdisciplinary Studies & Basudha Demonstration Farm West Bengal, India
Date: | November 23, 2009 |
Time: | 12:10 – 1 pm |
Location: | 3201 Hart Hall |
The UC Davis Agricultural Sustainability Institute and the International Agricultural Development Graduate group are sponsoring this Brown Bag Seminar with Dr. Debal Deb of the Basudha Demonstration Farm in West Bengal, India.
Ecological agriculture, involving zero synthetic agrochemicals, soil moisture management, and conservation of in situ biodiversity, (including genetic diversity) can eliminate crop loss from pests and pathogens and ensure long-term productivity. On-farm experiments at Basudha farm over 8 years demonstrate that greater diversity and food web architectural complexity ensure significantly greater resilience than homogenized, synthetic chemical-based farming systems.
MODIFIED ON: 11/18/2009
Environmental Humanities presents
Fantasies and Fears: Reading Eco-City Development in Shanghai
Julie Sze, Founding Director, Environmental Justice Project of the John Muir Institute of the Environment
Date: | November 24, 2009 |
Time: | 12-1:00 p.m. (bring a lunch) |
Location: | 228 Voorhies |
The Environmental Humanities Supercluster is sponsoring this brown bag event with Julie Sze, Associate Professor of American Studies at UC Davis. Dr. Sze’s current research examines contemporary cultural attitudes and ideas about the “environment” in China and the United States, through a focus on eco-city development and suburbanization near Shanghai, host of next year’s World Exposition. From the framework of transnational American Studies, this research explores how the contemporary environmental politics of globalization and concern with China’s pollution connect with American anxieties in the 21st Century.
MODIFIED ON: 11/17/2009
Stebbins Cold Canyon Nature Outings
Loop Trail
What are you thankful for?
Date: | November 28, 2009 |
Time: | 9-1pm |
Location: | Stebbins Cold Canyon |
Hike the loop trail after Thanksgiving with opportunities along the way to learn about the reserve and to reflect on what you are thankful for. This hike is 5 miles, has a 1,200’ elevation gain (with many steps) and offers distinctive changes in the plant communities and breathtaking views in all directions—look for waterfalls after the rain. Bring: Sturdy shoes, at least a liter of water and a snack.
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It is the goal of the NATURE OUTINGS program to offer a diverse schedule to the campus and local communities. We hope you find something of interest, something to help you experience the reserve and continue to develop your relationship with the natural world.
Most outings are interactive and experiential in nature.
In addition to Stebbins Cold Canyon, outings will take place at Bobcat Ranch, and Lake Solano Regional Park.
****NEW--Suggested donation of $5 per person and $10 per family.
Please RSVP for each outing you are interested in attending. Most outings are limited to 15 participants and fill up quickly.
RSVP via e-mail: jfalyn@ucdavis.edu. Include your name, address, presentation date, phone number and/or e-mail address. Also, indicate whether you need directions.
MODIFIED ON: 10/30/2009
2009-2010 Responsible Conduct of Research Program
Authorship and Publication
John Yoder, PhD
Date: | December 2, 2009 |
Time: | 12:00 noon -1:30 p.m. |
Location: | 1065 Kemper Hall |
Web site: |
Please Join the Office of Research for the 2009-2010 Responsible Conduct of Research Program.
On December 2, John Yoder, Ph.D. will lead a discussion on authorship and publication that addresses:
• Who should and shouldn’t receive authorship status
• Plagiarism, self-plagiarism, and theft of ideas
• Strategies for preventing authorship and publication disputes
• How to handle authorship and publication disputes when they do arise
John Yoder, Ph.D. is a professor in the Plant Sciences department at UC Davis, with the focus of his research on plant-plant communication, and plant molecular genetics.
Feel free to bring your brown bag lunch.
The objective of the RCR program is to provide graduate students, postdoctoral scholars, faculty, and staff with information, training, and tools to address the increasingly complex issues that they will confront during their careers.
The lecture-discussion sessions will take place October 2009 through May 2010 and be offered during the lunch hour. Eight sessions will be offered (at the Davis campus). Participants who attend five sessions will receive a certificate of completion for the Responsible Conduct of Research program.
MODIFIED ON: 11/9/2009
Doing and Debating Development Series
Reducing Vehicle Miles Traveled and the Built Environment: from planning to policy to action
Deb Niemeier, Environmental Engineering, UC Davis
Date: | December 2, 2009 |
Time: | 12 noon- 1:00 pm |
Location: | 3201 Hart Hall |
A special series of the Community Development Graduate Group featuring the theme: The Many Dimensions of Community Development. Co-sponsored by the Center for Regional Change.
MODIFIED ON: 11/6/2009
UC Davis Landscape Architecture Fall Lunchbag Series
Mini-Charette: Your Ideas for a Sustainable Campus
Led by Steve Wheeler (UC Davis Associate Professor of LDA) with special guests
Date: | December 4, 2009 |
Time: | 12:10-1:00 p.m. |
Location: | 1130 Hart |
The Landscape Architecture Lunchbag Lecture Series will feature the theme "A Sustainable Campus. What’s being done? What more can we do?" for the Fall 2009 quarter. This week Steve Wheeler will lead a discussion on "Your Ideas for a Sustainable Campus". Lectures are open to all.
MODIFIED ON: 11/13/2009
Stebbins Cold Canyon Nature Outings
Animal Tracking
at Lake Solano
Date: | December 5, 2009 |
Time: | 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon |
Location: | Lake Solano: meet in the day use parking lot |
It is easy to forget that the places we live and play are also home to foxes, mink, coyotes, and other mammals. Usually these animals stay out of sight, but they always leave behind clues to tell you they were there. Learn to read animal track and sign with experienced tracker Sean Clemenza and see the landscape through an animal's eyes. This outing meets in the day use parking lot at Lake Solano.
Guide: Sean Clemenza
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It is the goal of the NATURE OUTINGS program to offer a diverse schedule to the campus and local communities. We hope you find something of interest, something to help you experience the reserve and continue to develop your relationship with the natural world.
Most outings are interactive and experiential in nature.
In addition to Stebbins Cold Canyon, outings will take place at Bobcat Ranch, and Lake Solano Regional Park.
****NEW--Suggested donation of $5 per person and $10 per family.
Please RSVP for each outing you are interested in attending. Most outings are limited to 15 participants and fill up quickly.
RSVP via e-mail: jfalyn@ucdavis.edu. Include your name, address, presentation date, phone number and/or e-mail address. Also, indicate whether you need directions.
MODIFIED ON: 11/5/2009
Stebbins Cold Canyon Nature Outings
Gesture Drawing
Guide: Alison Kent
Date: | December 6, 2009 |
Time: | 10:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. |
Location: | Stebbins Cold Canyon |
Cost: | Suggested donation of $5 per person and $10 per family. |
Gesture drawing trains the hand to draw what the eye is seeing before the brain gets in the way. Learn basic techniques to help you capture on paper what you see in nature. Make holiday cards from your gesture drawings! Everyone is welcome. Bring a pen, marker, crayon, colored pencil...
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It is the goal of the NATURE OUTINGS program to offer a diverse schedule to the campus and local communities. We hope you find something of interest, something to help you experience the reserve and continue to develop your relationship with the natural world.
Most outings are interactive and experiential in nature.
In addition to Stebbins Cold Canyon, outings will take place at Bobcat Ranch, and Lake Solano Regional Park.
****NEW--Suggested donation of $5 per person and $10 per family.
Please RSVP for each outing you are interested in attending. Most outings are limited to 15 participants and fill up quickly.
RSVP via e-mail: jfalyn@ucdavis.edu. Include your name, address, presentation date, phone number and/or e-mail address. Also, indicate whether you need directions.
MODIFIED ON: 11/13/2009
Stebbins Cold Canyon Nature Outings:
Nature's Theater--Nature Play for Kids
Birdman
(for Ages 4-8)
Date: | December 6, 2009 |
Time: | 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon |
Location: | Stebbins Cold Canyon |
Nature’s Theater is an innovative approach to helping children develop a healthy relationship with the natural world. Through interactive stories children explore the canyon with characters, like Summer, Glug Glug, Tree Spirit, Professor Planthead and Birdman.
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It is the goal of the NATURE OUTINGS program to offer a diverse schedule to the campus and local communities. We hope you find something of interest, something to help you experience the reserve and continue to develop your relationship with the natural world.
Most outings are interactive and experiential in nature.
In addition to Stebbins Cold Canyon, outings will take place at Bobcat Ranch, and Lake Solano Regional Park.
****NEW--Suggested donation of $5 per person and $10 per family.
Please RSVP for each outing you are interested in attending. Most outings are limited to 15 participants and fill up quickly.
RSVP via e-mail: jfalyn@ucdavis.edu. Include your name, address, presentation date, phone number and/or e-mail address. Also, indicate whether you need directions.
MODIFIED ON: 11/13/2009
The Western Center for Agricultural Health & Safety Seminar Series
New Media and Agricultural Health and Safety: Is My Space Really Our Space?
Max Lum, EdD. MPA; NIOSH Director E-News & Communications
Date: | December 7, 2009 |
Time: | 4:00pm |
Location: | 3201 Hart Hall |
The seminar series is co-sponsored by the Masters of Public Health Program, the Small Farm Center and the Center for Environmental Health Sciences.
Refreshments provided by University Catering.
For more information, please call 530-752-4050.
MODIFIED ON: 10/30/2009
The UC Davis Tahoe Environmental Research Center presents
Assembling California and Western Nevada: Point Reyes to Lake Tahoe
Presentation by Dr. Eldridge Moores, UC Davis Department of Geology
Date: | December 9, 2009 |
Time: | 5:30 – 7:30 p.m. |
Location: | Assembly Rooms 139 & 141 |
Cost: | $5 donation requested. No-Host Bar. |
The landscapes of California and western Nevada have a long and storied past including plate movements, granitic intrusions, volcanism, and collisions of island arcs and continental fragments with the western US over the past 250 million years. The rocks and structures that we see at the surface and at depth record this history. Rocks are historical archives. One can read these archives of Earth history if one knows the language. The language is geology.
Major challenges in the 21st century, including climate change, energy, resources, water, and earth hazards, deeply involve geology. To function as an informed citizen, everyone needs knowledge of geology.
Eldridge Moores Biography:
Dr. Eldridge Moores is Distinguished Professor Emeritus in the UC Davis Geology Department, where he has been a faculty member since 1966. His specialty is Structural Geology and Tectonics, with special emphasis on the Alpine-Himalayan and western North American mountain systems. He has authored or co-authored over 100 scientific and general interest publications, including several books, and he has mentored hundreds of students. The famous American writer John McPhee prominently features Moores in the books "Assembling California" and "Annals of the Former World". He and his wife Judy regularly give geology/landscape field trips for non-specialists.
MODIFIED ON: 10/15/2009
Stebbins Cold Canyon Nature Outings
Botanical Drawing
Guide: Ruth Williams
Date: | December 12, 2009 |
Time: | 10:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. |
Location: | Stebbins Cold Canyon |
Cost: | Suggested donation of $5 per person and $10 per family. |
Botanical illustration is a fun way to record the unique and diverse flora in your sketchbook. Botanist Ruth Williams will lead participants through the process of observing key details of flowers and forbs and show you how to create a visual, botanically accurate rendering of native plants. Materials will be provided, but you may bring your own sketchbook and pencil if desired. In case of rain, an umbrella is recommended.
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It is the goal of the NATURE OUTINGS program to offer a diverse schedule to the campus and local communities. We hope you find something of interest, something to help you experience the reserve and continue to develop your relationship with the natural world.
Most outings are interactive and experiential in nature.
In addition to Stebbins Cold Canyon, outings will take place at Bobcat Ranch, and Lake Solano Regional Park.
****NEW--Suggested donation of $5 per person and $10 per family.
Please RSVP for each outing you are interested in attending. Most outings are limited to 15 participants and fill up quickly.
RSVP via e-mail: jfalyn@ucdavis.edu. Include your name, address, presentation date, phone number and/or e-mail address. Also, indicate whether you need directions.
MODIFIED ON: 11/13/2009
Stebbins Cold Canyon Nature Outings
Winter Solstice
Renewal
Date: | December 20, 2009 |
Time: | 10 a.m. - 1 p.m. |
Location: | Stebbins Cold Canyon |
Cost: | Suggested donation of $5 per person and $10 per family. |
On this outing, the group traverses the canyon and experiences the reserve on the shortest day of the year. The winter solstice is a time for reflection and optimism. Participants will have the opportunity to focus on the seasonal changes taking place around them and within.
Guide: Jeff Falyn
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It is the goal of the NATURE OUTINGS program to offer a diverse schedule to the campus and local communities. We hope you find something of interest, something to help you experience the reserve and continue to develop your relationship with the natural world.
Most outings are interactive and experiential in nature.
In addition to Stebbins Cold Canyon, outings will take place at Bobcat Ranch, and Lake Solano Regional Park.
****NEW--Suggested donation of $5 per person and $10 per family.
Please RSVP for each outing you are interested in attending. Most outings are limited to 15 participants and fill up quickly.
RSVP via e-mail: jfalyn@ucdavis.edu. Include your name, address, presentation date, phone number and/or e-mail address. Also, indicate whether you need directions.
MODIFIED ON: 11/13/2009
The Western Center for Agricultural Health & Safety Seminar Series
DPR’s Monitoring Network
Pamela Wofford & Randy Sagawa, Department of Pesticide Regulation; Cal EPA
Date: | January 4, 2010 |
Time: | 4:00 - 5:00 p.m. |
Location: | 3201 Hart Hall |
The seminar series is co-sponsored by the Masters of Public Health Program, the Small Farm Center and the Center for Environmental Health Sciences.
Refreshments provided by University Catering.
For more information, please call 530-752-4050.
MODIFIED ON: 11/6/2009
Stebbins Cold Canyon Nature Outings
Guide Training
Date: | January 9-23, 2010 |
Location: | Stebbins Cold Canyon |
Contact: | Jeff Falyn – jfalyn@ucdavis.edu |
Cost: | $15 per person |
Everyone has a story to tell, something they are interested in or passionate about. The guide training program helps participants identify possible topics and mold them into a presentation for the public.
Are you interested in sustainability, geology, flowers, yoga, water conservation, bilingual outings? The list of possible presentation topics is endless.
The guide training program is a two part process. In the first part, participants receive an overview of the natural history of the canyon and the general logistics for running a group outing. The second part of the training asks each participant to choose a topic of interest and give a mini-presentation to the group. Group feedback is then given to further strengthen the presentation.
Training dates are January 9th, 16th & 23rd from 10:00 to 2:00pm at Stebbins Cold Canyon. The training is $15 per person (printing expenses) and limited to 10 people.
If you are interested, e-mail Jeff Falyn - jfalyn@ucdavis.edu. Please include your phone number in the e-mail.
MODIFIED ON: 11/13/2009
UC Davis Extension Announces Winter Courses in Conflict Resolution
Date: | January 13 - February 22, 2010 |
Web site: |
UC Davis Extension offers a variety of courses for novice and experienced professionals in the mediation and conflict resolution fields. With 50 years of excellence in adult education, UC Davis Extension can help students accelerate their careers, explore an interest or prepare for a career shift. All courses are held in Sacramento at the Sutter Square Galleria, 2901 K St., unless otherwise indicated. Group discounts are available.
Online
Theory of Conflict Resolution and Community Engagement Expand your professional potential with training in conflict resolution for organizations and communities.
• Enroll now through Jan. 11 and complete by Feb. 16.
• $575. Enroll in section 093DSD101.
New
Difficult Conversations
Discover strategies for reducing the need to have “difficult” conversations. Increase your understanding of how the brain works and how what happens in our minds affects our conversations.
• Jan. 13-20: Wed., 9 a.m.-4 p.m.
• $490. Enroll in section 093DSP133.
Facilitating Effective Public Meetings
Practice setting limits and saying "no" to protect yourself from problem people. Learn how to understand difficult people, defuse emotion and move to constructive problem-solving.
• Feb. 17: Wed., 9 a.m.-4 p.m.
• $235. Enroll in section 093DSP123.
Online
Introduction to Mediation, Facilitation and Community Engagement Build a solid foundation in the basics of conflict resolution.
• Enroll now through Feb. 22 and complete by March 29.
• $575. Enroll in section 093DSD100.
For more information or to enroll, call (800) 752-0881 or visit the Web site.
UC Davis Extension, the continuing and professional education arm of UC Davis, has been an internationally-recognized leader in educational outreach for individuals, organizations and communities for nearly 50 years. With more than 60,000 annual enrollments in classroom and online university-level courses, UC Davis Extension serves lifelong learners in the growing Sacramento region, all 50 states and more than 70 countries.
MODIFIED ON: 10/30/2009
Toward Sustainable Groundwater in Agriculture
An International Conference Linking Science and Policy
Date: | June 15-17, 2010 |
Location: | Hyatt Regency Hotel |
Web site: |
Registration: | Access a secure, on-line registration form at the Water Education Foundation: http://www.watereducation.org/doc.asp?id=1231&parentID=849 |
This three-day conference will provide scientists, policymakers, agricultural and environmental stakeholders, local, state and federal governmental
officials, and consultants with the latest scientific, management, legal and policy advances for sustaining our groundwater resources in agricultural regions around the world.
Program Highlights:
Groundwater is the lifeline for many rural and agricultural regions and their associated cultures and populations around the globe and a cornerstone of global food production. Groundwater constitutes nearly half the world´s drinking water and much of the world´s irrigation water supply.
Over use; groundwater salinity; nonpoint source pollution from agricultural activities, animal farming, ranching, and forestry activities; agricultural groundwater impacts to surface water; and groundwater quality and quantity conflicts at the urban-rural interface have reached global dimensions and threaten the very livelihood of this planet.
Topics to be addressed in plenary sessions and technical sessions include:
·Socioeconomic Aspects of Agricultural Groundwater
·Climate, Energy, and Agricultural Groundwater
·Agricultural Groundwater Quality and Contamination
·Conjunctive Use, Agricultural Water Use, and Groundwater Management, Policy, and Regulation
·Groundwater at the Agriculture-Urban Interface
·Groundwater Linkages to Surface Water and Estuaries
With additional Groundwater Workshops on June 14 and an Agricultural Groundwater Tour on June 18.
Watch the Web site for program updates and information about hotel reservations.
Organized by the Water Education Foundation and University of California, Davis. Sponsored by the Robert M. Hagan Endowed Chair.
MODIFIED ON: 9/28/2009