JMIE Events
2010
- February 4: Earthquake and Tsunami Hazard of the Tahoe Basin … and Other Geophysical Musings
- February 8: Moving Water from Extraction to Sustainability
- February 22: California Water Issues and Today’s Media - NEW
- March 1: Pre-Harvest Food Safety, Food Safety & the Farmworker - NEW
- June 15-17: Toward Sustainable Groundwater in Agriculture
Tahoe Environmental Research Center presents
Earthquake and Tsunami Hazard of the Tahoe Basin … and Other Geophysical Musings
Presentation by Dr. Graham Kent, Director, Nevada Seismological Lab
Date: | February 4, 2010 |
Time: | 5:30 – 7:30 p.m., Lecture begins promptly at 6:00 p.m. |
Location: | Assembly Rooms 139 & 141 |
Web site: | http://terc.ucdavis.edu/calendar/events/2010_GeophysicsWithGrahamKent.pdf |
Cost: | $5 donation requested. No-Host Bar. |
The Lake Tahoe Basin provides geologists with evidence of past earthquakes, landslides and tsunamis. Join Dr. Graham Kent, Director of the Nevada Seismological Laboratory and Professor in the Department of Geological Sciences and Engineering at the University of Nevada, Reno for a high-tech, CSI-styled investigation of the Tahoe Basin geologic hazards using new sonar and laser technologies, trenching, coring and other interesting techniques. Learn about the major fault zones capable of large, magnitude 7 earthquakes and tsunami waves up to 10 meters in height.
Dr. Graham M. Kent has recently been appointed Director of the Nevada Seismological Laboratory and Professor in the Department of Geological Sciences and Engineering at the University of Nevada, Reno. Previous to July 2009, Graham was a Research Geophysicist at Scripps Institution of Oceanography and had been Director of the Visualization Center at Scripps from 2001-2009. Dr. Kent is a native of Lake Tahoe, California, where he graduated from South Tahoe High School in 1980.
MODIFIED ON: 1/27/2010
California Water Policy Seminar Series
Moving Water from Extraction to Sustainability
Tim Quinn, Director, Association of California Water Agencies
Date: | February 8, 2010 |
Time: | 4:10-5:30 pm |
Location: | 216 Wellman Hall |
The California Water Policy Seminar Series (ECI 296) will meet weekly for the Winter quarter, with the theme "Topics in Water and Environmental Engineering".
The special guest speaker will be Tim Quinn discussing "Moving Water from Extraction to Sustainability". Web-cast will be available at the Center for Watershed Sciences Web site: http://watershed.ucdavis.edu/water-policy-series/
The series is sponsored by:
The Center for Watershed Sciences - John Muir Institute of the Environment
Institute for Governmental Affairs
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Hydrologic Sciences Graduate Group
Geography Graduate Group
MODIFIED ON: 1/25/2010
California Water Policy Seminar Series
California Water Issues and Today’s Media
Rita Sudman, Executive Director, Water Education Foundation
Date: | February 22, 2010 |
Time: | Mondays, 4:10-5:30 pm |
Location: | 216 Wellman Hall |
The California Water Policy Seminar Series (ECI 296) will meet weekly for the Winter quarter, with the theme "Topics in Water and Environmental Engineering". The regular talks will be web-cast and archived.
The special guest speaker will be Rita Sudman, the Executive Director of the Water Education Foundation (http://aquafornia.com/). Web-cast will be available at: http://watershed.ucdavis.edu/water-policy-series/
The series is sponsored by:
The Center for Watershed Sciences - John Muir Institute of the Environment
Institute for Governmental Affairs
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Hydrologic Sciences Graduate Group
Geography Graduate Group
MODIFIED ON: 2/4/2010
The Western Center for Agricultural Health & Safety Seminar Series
Pre-Harvest Food Safety, Food Safety & the Farmworker
Rob Atwill, DVM, MPVM, PhD; Interim Director, Western Institute for Food Safety and Security
Date: | March 1, 2010 |
Time: | 4:00pm |
Location: | 3201 Hart Hall |
Web site: | http://agcenter.ucdavis.edu/seminar/flyer/2010/Seminar_Series_2009-10_Sched.pdf |
The seminar series is co-sponsored by the Masters of Public Health Program.
Refreshments provided by University Catering.
For more information, please call 530-752-4050.
MODIFIED ON: 2/4/2010
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