How do floodplains benefit juvenile salmon? Who uses how much water in CA? Why is the Delta stressed out? What should we do with subsiding Delta islands? Where can we conserve more precious water resources? Check out the CaliforniaWaterBlog to find what our researchers have to say on these issues and more.

Education and Outreach

Education is a powerful tool for influencing peoples’ actions and decisions. Addressing many environmental issues will require fundamental changes in the way that individual people think and behave. People must have the critical thinking skills and basic environmental literacy to make environmentally conscious lifestyle and voting decision. How can these values be incorporated into primary education? How can environmental planners and activists successfully communicate the knowledge and ideas necessary to support their aims to the general public and lawmakers?

Faculty Experts

• Kent Bradford
  Biodiversity & Conservation | Healthy Environment, Healthy People | Effective Solutions | Population Genetics | Population, Community Ecology | Plants | Stressors on Plants | Food, Agriculture | Policy, Governance | Education and Outreach
• Chris Calvert
  Biodiversity & Conservation | Healthy Environment, Healthy People | Effective Solutions | Physiology and Nutrition | Food, Agriculture | Education and Outreach
• Valerie Eviner
  Biodiversity & Conservation | Land Use | Climate Change | Effective Solutions | Ecosystems | Population, Community Ecology | Plants | Invasive Species | Habitat Restoration | Greenhouse Gases, Carbon Cycle | Effects on Agriculture | Effects on Plants and Wildlife | Education and Outreach | Business, Management
• Joyce Gutstein
  Healthy Environment, Healthy People | Effective Solutions | Human, Community Health | Environmental Justice | Arts & Literature | Education and Outreach
• Louise E. Jackson
  Biodiversity & Conservation | Land Use | Climate Change | Healthy Environment, Healthy People | Ecosystems | Plants | Stressors on Plants | Soil Microbes | Physiology and Nutrition | Habitat Restoration | Effects on Agriculture | Effects on Plants and Wildlife | Food, Agriculture | Education and Outreach
• Dietmar Kültz
  Biodiversity & Conservation | Water & Watersheds | Climate Change | Healthy Environment, Healthy People | Effective Solutions | Toxicology | Stressors on Animals | Physiology and Nutrition | Deltas and Estuaries | Coasts and Oceans | Aquatic Health, Toxicology | Effects on Agriculture | Effects on Plants and Wildlife | Food, Agriculture | Education and Outreach
• Jenella Loye
  Biodiversity & Conservation | Healthy Environment, Healthy People | Effective Solutions | Plants | Invasive Species | Disease | History, Culture | Education and Outreach | Invention, Entrepreneurship
• Andrew J Marshall
  Biodiversity & Conservation | Climate Change | Effective Solutions | Plants | Wildlife | Stressors on Animals | Effects on Plants and Wildlife | Education and Outreach
• Mary Brooke McEachern
  Biodiversity & Conservation | Climate Change | Effective Solutions | Population Genetics | Wildlands | Population, Community Ecology | Wildlife | Stressors on Animals | Effects on Plants and Wildlife | Education and Outreach
• WScott McLean
  Biodiversity & Conservation | Water & Watersheds | Healthy Environment, Healthy People | Effective Solutions | Ecosystems | Plants | Wildlife | Rivers | Water Policy | Environmental Justice | Arts & Literature | Environmental Ethics | Education and Outreach
• Deanne Meyer
  Water & Watersheds | Climate Change | Healthy Environment, Healthy People | Effective Solutions | Pollution, Transport and Water Quality | Water Policy | Effects on Water Resources | Effects on Agriculture | Policy, Economics | Air Quality | Food, Agriculture | Policy, Governance | Education and Outreach
• Beth Rose Middleton
  Land Use | Healthy Environment, Healthy People | Effective Solutions | Land Use Planning | Human, Community Health | Environmental Justice | History, Culture | Policy, Governance | Education and Outreach | Business, Management | Invention, Entrepreneurship
• A. Keith Miles
  Biodiversity & Conservation | Water & Watersheds | Climate Change | Effective Solutions | Toxicology | Coasts and Oceans | Effects on Plants and Wildlife | Education and Outreach
• Jeff Mitchell
  Biodiversity & Conservation | Climate Change | Healthy Environment, Healthy People | Effective Solutions | Ecosystems | Plants | Stressors on Plants | Physiology and Nutrition | Greenhouse Gases, Carbon Cycle | Effects on Agriculture | Air Quality | Food, Agriculture | Education and Outreach
• Eliska Rejmankova
  Biodiversity & Conservation | Land Use | Water & Watersheds | Climate Change | Effective Solutions | Ecosystems | Plants | Disease | Soil Microbes | Habitat Restoration | Lakes | Effects on Water Resources | Education and Outreach
• Geoffrey Schladow
  Biodiversity & Conservation | Water & Watersheds | Climate Change | Healthy Environment, Healthy People | Effective Solutions | Ecosystems | Invasive Species | Rivers | Lakes | Deltas and Estuaries | Pollution, Transport and Water Quality | Climate Modeling, Forecasting | Effects on Water Resources | Education and Outreach
• Kate M. Scow
  Biodiversity & Conservation | Water & Watersheds | Climate Change | Healthy Environment, Healthy People | Effective Solutions | Ecosystems | Population, Community Ecology | Soil Microbes | Pollution, Transport and Water Quality | Greenhouse Gases, Carbon Cycle | Effects on Agriculture | Food, Agriculture | Education and Outreach
• Johan Six
  Biodiversity & Conservation | Water & Watersheds | Climate Change | Healthy Environment, Healthy People | Effective Solutions | Ecosystems | Soil Microbes | Rivers | Greenhouse Gases, Carbon Cycle | Effects on Agriculture | Food, Agriculture | Economics | Education and Outreach
• Richard Snyder
  Climate Change | Effective Solutions | Atmospheric Science | Effects on Water Resources | Effects on Agriculture | Effects on Plants and Wildlife | Education and Outreach
• Lisa Thompson
  Biodiversity & Conservation | Land Use | Water & Watersheds | Climate Change | Healthy Environment, Healthy People | Effective Solutions | Ecosystems | Population, Community Ecology | Invasive Species | Habitat Restoration | Rivers | Lakes | Climate Modeling, Forecasting | Effects on Water Resources | Effects on Plants and Wildlife | Policy, Economics | Food, Agriculture | Education and Outreach
• Thomas P. Tomich
  Biodiversity & Conservation | Climate Change | Healthy Environment, Healthy People | Effective Solutions | Ecosystems | Policy, Economics | Food, Agriculture | Policy, Governance | Economics | Education and Outreach
• Joshua Viers
  Biodiversity & Conservation | Land Use | Water & Watersheds | Climate Change | Effective Solutions | Ecosystems | Wildlands | Plants | Wildlife | Invasive Species | Disease | Land Use Planning | Habitat Restoration | Geospatial Analysis | Rivers | Lakes | Water Policy | Effects on Water Resources | Effects on Plants and Wildlife | Policy, Governance | Education and Outreach
• Narine Yegiyan
  Healthy Environment, Healthy People | Effective Solutions | Human, Community Health | Education and Outreach
• Michael Ziser
  Healthy Environment, Healthy People | Effective Solutions | Environmental Justice | Food, Agriculture | Arts & Literature | Education and Outreach