JMIE In The News
A compilation of how JMIE people and programs have been represented in the news media.
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11/16/2009
As Salmon Population Dissipates, So Too Does An Ancient Connection
The Sacramento Bee
This article quotes UC Davis fisheries expert Peter Moyle, who in a 2008 report stated that "if present trends continue, California will have only 'museum' populations or runs of most salmonids, maintained with very high effort for display purposes, to remind people what has been lost."
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11/13/2009
Tahoe Hatchery To House Exhibit
National Public Radio: All Things Considered
The historic Tahoe City Fish Hatchery will soon open to the public as a science exhibit created and maintained by the UC Davis Tahoe Environmental Research Center. One of the biggest issues at Tahoe now is dealing with the impacts of storm water on clarity, says Geoff Schladow, director of the research center.
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11/13/2009
Tahoe Fish Hatchery To House Exhibit
The Associated Press
The UC Davis Tahoe Environmental Research Center has announced that it will transform a historic Lake Tahoe fish hatchery into a public science exhibit. About $550,000 in grants and other funds have been secured to create the exhibit in the recently renovated hatchery.
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11/13/2009
After 10 Years, California Fuel Cell Partnership Is Ready To Pump It Up
Sacramento Business Journal
Daniel Sperling, director of the Institute of Transportation Studies at UC Davis, explains that the California Fuel Cell Partnership was never designed to function as a manufacturing or investment group. Instead, Sperling says that "what they have done is really gotten the industries and other interest groups engaged, working together and thinking about what are the issues that need to be dealt with."
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11/12/2009
Study Links Climate Change To California Droughts
U.S. News & World Report
Jessica Oster, a doctoral student, and Isabel Montanez, a professor of geology, are the authors of a new study which states that California experienced centuries-long droughts in the past 20,000 years that coincided with the thawing of ice caps in the Arctic.
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11/11/2009
Government Says Brown Pelicans Are No Longer Endangered
The Associated Press
Dan Anderson, a UC Davis professor who began researching the brown pelican in the 1970s at Anacapa Island, states that the bird now has 5,000 nests compared to its original 200. "This is a special bird because it represents the coastal ecosystem and its health," Anderson says. "The brown pelican is an icon of oceanic health."
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11/11/2009
Arctic Warming Linked With Calif. Droughts
ABC 7 San Francisco
UC Davis geology professor Isabel Montanez and researcher Jessica Oster are the co-authors of a new study which found evidence that California experienced a series of droughts during periods of historic Arctic ice melts. "When temperatures increase in the arctic, they reroute jet stream, which normally brings winter water to California," Montanez says.
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11/3/2009
Housing's Hot On Davis Ballot
KCRA Channel 3 (NBC)
Fraser Shilling, a UC Davis professor of ecology, expresses opposition to Measure P, the single item on Davis' election ballot today that will decide whether to allow agricultural land to be rezoned to residential and to build more affordable, green housing.
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11/3/2009
Petroleum's Long Good-Bye
Technology Review.com
Daniel Sperling, director of the Institute for Transportation Studies at UC Davis, states that since advanced transportation technologies will develop "slowly," the focus "needs to be on making conventional technology more efficient."
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11/1/2009
Nanotechnology: A Risky Frontier?
Star Tribune
Albert Lin, a professor of law at UC Davis, states that nanotechnology companies don't face an imminent risk of lawsuits because it's hard to connect a health condition to a nanoproduct made by a specific company. "We don't know exactly what the risks are," Lin says. "If there is a risk, can we trace it back to the parties that are liable? We are at the beginning stages."
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