JMIE Events
2009
- April 23 - August 23: 25 Stories: The Exhibit
- June 24: 2009 California Extreme Precipitation Symposium
- July 6-10: The Green Technology Entrepreneurship Academy
- July 9: Urban Runoff and Putah Creek - NEW
- July 11: Can Native Species Help Us Control Unwanted Weeds? Native tarweeds vs. yellow starthistle
- August 7: Children's Environmental Science Day
25 Stories from the Central Valley
25 Stories: The Exhibit
Date: | April 23 - August 23, 2009 |
Location: | Richard L. Nelson satellite gallery |
Web site: |
25 Stories from the Central Valley is one student’s master's thesis come to life with 25 stories of personal change and civic engagement. This campus-community project uses photos, theater, stories and sound to paint a vivid picture of the environmental problems faced by Central Valley communities as told by women leading the movement struggling to solve them. Their stories are inspiring, shocking and sometimes sad. Above all, they broaden people’s understanding of the Central Valley, community change and the necessity for civic engagement.
25 Stories: The Exhibit will be on display from April 23 through August 23 at the Nelson Gallery in the Buehler Alumni Center at UC Davis. The exhibit will feature photos from the communities and back roads of the Central Valley, documenting women leaders struggling for environmental justice.
25 STORIES is co-sponsored by the Environmental Justice Project at UC Davis’s John Muir Institute of the Environment, Central California Environmental Justice Network, Greenaction for Health and Environmental Justice, Community Water Center, Grayson Neighborhood Council, Tri-County Watchdogs, Association of Irritated Residents and the Center on Race, Poverty and the Environment; funding was generously provided by the UC Davis Humanities Institute, Center for Regional Change, Consortium for Women and Research, Environmental Justice Project and the Community Development Graduate Group (at UC Davis); American Studies Association and the University of California Humanities Research Institute’s California Studies Initiative.
MODIFIED ON: 4/10/2009
2009 California Extreme Precipitation Symposium
“Droughts and Floods -- Past and Future”
Date: | June 24, 2009 |
Time: | 7:45 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. |
Location: | University of California, Davis |
Web site: |
Cost: | $50, includes continental breakfast, breaks, lunch, parking, and proceedings |
Registration: | On line registration available at the Web site. |
The symposium's purpose is to focus attention on extreme precipitation events in California watersheds — events responsible for producing floods and placing life and property at risk. Organizers believe this attention will increase knowledge and understanding of extreme precipitation events, and thus:
1. Provide better information on the size of large floods for land use and flood management planning efforts
2. Increase the warning time in advance of large floods
Each symposium provides an informal setting for presentations and questions. Costs are kept low to encourage participation by a diverse audience.
MODIFIED ON: 5/2/2009
The UC Davis Center for Entrepreneurship and Tahoe Environmental Research Center present
The Green Technology Entrepreneurship Academy
Date: | July 6-10, 2009 |
Location: | July 6 - 10, 2009 |
Web site: |
The Green Technology Entrepreneurship Academy provides science and engineering graduate students, post-doctoral researchers and faculty with the knowledge and skills they need to move environmentally sustainable research out of the laboratory and into the world.
The 2009 program will be held July 6 - 10, 2009 at the Tahoe Center for Environmental Sciences in Incline Village, Nev.
The five-day intensive academy provides participants with focused lectures, practical exercises, and hands-on experiences designed to give them the knowledge, skills, and networks to explore how their research can make broader impact in industry, the marketplace, and the world.
It is taught by venture capitalists, entrepreneurs, university faculty, intellectual property officers, industry sponsors and angel investors from across the country that serve as mentors as well as guest faculty, providing participants with the knowledge and networks needed to take the next steps toward commercialization.
The Tahoe Center for Environmental Sciences is located at Sierra Nevada College in Incline Village, Nevada. It is a world-class center for research and education, designed to support programs that help protect the quality and future of environmentally-threatened lakes and watersheds. Lodging and dining are provided at Sierra Nevada College.
MODIFIED ON: 6/8/2009
CREEKSPEAK! 2009– Putah Creek Watershed Community Talks and Outings
Urban Runoff and Putah Creek
Loren Oki, UC Davis Plant Sciences
Date: | July 9, 2009 |
Time: | 7:00 pm-8:30 pm |
Location: | Winters Community Center |
Web site: |
Cost: | Talks and Outings are free of charge. |
Join Creekspeak to learn about the impact of summer irrigation (watering lawns and landscaping) on local waterways. The discussion will be led by Loren Oki, UC Davis Plant Sciences professor.
CREEKSPEAK! is a series of community talks and outings on nature, art, science and culture in the Putah Creek watershed held on the second Thursday of each month, May through October 2009, at the Winters Community Center in downtown Winters. The purpose of the CreekSpeak! series is to share knowledge about the natural and cultural resources of the Putah Creek watershed and to inspire audiences to actively explore the watershed we live in. Talks are interactive and engaging and will be followed by thematically linked Saturday Outings at various locations in the watershed. Some Outings have specific times and locations for gathering; others are self-directed experiences, and some Outings have both options.
Sponsored by UC Davis John Muir Institute of the Environment, Putah Creek Council, City of Winters, and the Putah Creek Discovery Corridor Cooperative.
MODIFIED ON: 6/22/2009
McLaughlin Reserve Special Events 2009
Science Lecture and Optional Field Trip
Can Native Species Help Us Control Unwanted Weeds? Native tarweeds vs. yellow starthistle
Presented by Kris Hulvey, Ph.D. Candidate, University of Califonia - Santa Cruz
Date: | July 11, 2009 |
Time: | 3:00-4:30 p.m. lecture (optional mini-field trip 4:30-5:30 p.m.) |
Registration: | This lecture (and optional field trip) requires registration. Space is limited, and registrations are accepted in the order they are received. To sign up for a lecture, contact Cathy Koehler or Paul Aigner at (707) 995-9005, or mclaughlin@ucdavis.edu (and please provide names of all people wishing to attend, and a phone number and email where you can be reached). |
When working to control weed spread in grasslands, it is important to understand the extent to which biodiversity and the composition of plant communities influence the ability of a non-native species to invade. Similarly, when trying to decrease abundances of invasive plant species, it is important to consider whether restoration with particular native species can result in higher success in controlling the target invasive species.
Kris Hulvey has been focusing her research both on understanding what makes grasslands vulnerable to invasions as well as how to restore invaded areas so that these areas become less vulnerable to re-invasion by unwanted weeds. Her main focus has been the weed, yellow starthistle. This familiar non-native weed species is problematic for ranchers and managers of wildlands alike. When pastures become dominated by starthistle, they no longer support sufficient amounts of forage plants for cattle. Similarly, wildland meadows suffer severe loss in native species when invaded by starthistle. In both cases, understanding what might keep starthistle from invading or re-invading grasslands is key to maintaining natural diversity and healthy ecosystem functions.
Kris will discuss results of three experiments that highlight the role that native competitive plants – and in particular, California’s tarweeds -- can play in decreasing starthistle invasion/re-invasion. While tarweeds are not the solution to everyone’s starthistle problems, understanding how tarweeds and other competitive plants interact with starthistle in grasslands can help land managers of all sorts determine the best way to manage their weeds.
Join us afterwards for a tour of one of the experiments mentioned in the talk. This restoration experiment, which is a cooperative effort with the McLaughlin Reserve managers, looks at the success of various restoration actions in controlling yellow starthistle re-invasion.
*Please note, McLaughlin Reserve is a 2 hour drive from Davis.
MODIFIED ON: 5/28/2009
Tahoe Environmental Research Center presents
Children's Environmental Science Day
Date: | August 7, 2009 |
Time: | 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. |
Location: | Tahoe Center for Environmental Sciences |
Web site: | http://169.237.166.248/education_outreach/educationprograms/childrensscienceday.html |
Contact: | Katie Webb |
Join the Tahoe Center for Environmental Sciences for the 10th Annual Children’s Environmental Science Day.
Children’s Environmental Science Day provides activities and an opportunity for discovery for kids ages 8 and up together with their families.
Topics will include:
*Is our stream healthy?
*What lives in Lake Tahoe?
*What does algae feel like?
*What is a bull thistle?
Come and find out! Entertaining and educational hands-on activities will be provided by UC Davis scientists, Sierra Watershed Education Partnerships, Tahoe Resource Conservation District and others. Reservations are appreciated. For more information, see the Web site at http://terc.ucdavis.edu .
MODIFIED ON: 6/8/2009