JMIE In The News
A compilation of how JMIE people and programs have been represented in the news media.
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11/1/2009
Going Green To Protect Big Blue
Nevada Magazine
This article highlights the UC Davis Tahoe Environmental Research Center, which is the first building in the Lake Tahoe basin region to receive LEED platinum certification for its green building standards. The building includes color-coded pipes to help visitors learn about water conservation.
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10/30/2009
UC Davis Leads Oiled-Bird Rescue
KCBS-AM 740 (SF Bay Area & N. Calif.)
UC Davis wildlife veterinarian Michael Ziccardi is interviewed live on radio about plans to rescue and care for any oiled birds found at the site of an oil spill in San Francisco Bay.
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10/30/2009
Scientists To Study Nanotube Safety - Grant Will Fund Research On Breathing Common Manufacturing Substance
Davis Enterprise
Researchers at UC Davis have received a $1 million grant from the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act to study the health effects of breathing a substance called carbon nanotubes, which is found in everything from bicycles to electronics. "The concern with carbon nanotubes is that they're incredibly small tubes with properties similar to asbestos fibers," said grant recipient Kent Pinkerton, a professor of pediatrics in the School of Medicine at UC Davis.
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10/29/2009
Scientists Find Way To Kill Tahoe Clams
Reno Gazette-Journal
Scientists at the UC Davis Tahoe Environmental Research Center have developed a feasible way to control invasive Asian clams that experts feared would alter Lake Tahoe's water chemistry. "It worked incredibly well. We know how to kill the clams," says Geoff Schladow, director of the Research Center.
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10/26/2009
UC Water Archive Needs New Home
The Sacramento Bee
Jay Lund, director of the Center for Watershed Sciences at UC Davis and a professor of environmental engineering, expresses concern that no university will step up to host the Water Resources Center Archives, a repository of water research at UC Berkeley that is being forced to relocate due to budget concerns.
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10/26/2009
Peter Moyle Says Fresh Water Stresses Causing Global Fish Decline
EarthSky.org (content provider for radio broadcasts and Web podcasts)
Peter Moyle, a professor in the department of Wildlife, Fish and Conservation Biology at UC Davis, is interviewed on this podcast discussing the problems being faced by freshwater fish.
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10/20/2009
IT Innovations Can Help Mitigate Climate Change: Expert
The Peninsula (Qatar)
Andrew Hargadon, a professor at the Graduate School of Management, spoke on the topic of future advances in communication technology and climate change.
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10/15/2009
Q&A: Jonathan London
California Planning and Development Report
This article includes an interview with Jonathan London, director of the Center for Regional Change and an assistant professor in the department of human and community development at UC Davis.
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10/9/2009
Employers Must Take Action To Keep H1N1 Flu At Bay
Sacramento Business Journal
Thomas Beamish, a professor of sociology at UC Davis, explains why the H1N1 virus has become a scary issue in the workplace. "We can't see it. We don't know if we've got it and authorities say there is something to fear," Beamish says. "It's not necessarily more dangerous, but it's spreading more quickly."
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10/5/2009
S.F. Bay's Slide In Mud Worries Scientists
San Francisco Chronicle
Peter Moyle, a fish biologist at UC Davis who has studied California's estuaries for 35 years, states that free-flowing sediment functions as camouflage for certain types of fish, including the beleaguered delta smelt. "Smelt don't like water to be too clear
or too cloudy," Moyle said. "They don't school and they're semitransparent, so if the water is more turbid, predators seldom get them."
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