- Author: Carole Hom
UC Davis graduate students who study the impacts of global warming on the climate system and biosphere can apply now for the Ernest E. Hill Fellowship. These $3,000-$5,000 awards, supported by a generous gift from Mr. Hill and the Hill family, can be used for research, travel, small equipment purchases, and professional development via scientific meetings, courses or workshops.
In establishing the Ernest E. Hill Fellowship, Mr. Hill wrote,
Overwhelming evidence has established that humans have caused climate change. Our attention must now focus on the impacts of global warming and carbon-neutral alternative energy solutions. After some 40 years in the nuclear field, I have learned that many technical enterprises are ultimately controlled by political, economic, and environmental considerations. This was very important in my decision to sponsor a graduate fellowship fund at UC Davis. The analysis of our present situation in global warming and the possible means to correct the problem is very multidisciplinary. The conventional wisdom that it is largely an engineering problem is not correct. I was very pleased that UC Davis has a very broad view of the problem and that four colleges are interested in doing this research in the global warming area. Research in this area is not only desirable but essential.
For more information, please see the call for applications.
Deadline: submit your application via email no later than 16 April 2012. See the call for specifics.
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- Author: Carole Hom
On 15 May 2012, UC Davis will host a conference, Climate Change and California's Water Supply.
The conference, sponsored by the UC Davis Department of Land, Air and Water Resources, Air Quality Research Center, and the CCWAS IGERT, will bring together a wide array of stakeholders to address the challenges facing the state of California posed by predicted changes in climate and concomitant drought conditions.
The conference will include keynote presentations, discussions, and a poster session.
The Old River at the confluence of the San Joaquin River. Photo courtesy of M. Burns, CA Department of Water Resources |
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Please see the conference web site for more information about the tentative conference program, registration, submitting an abstract, and travel.
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- Author: Carole Hom
CCWAS IGERT PI Graham Fogg has just accepted an invitation to participate in a conference on groundwater control and monitoring in Chile. The conference, sponsored by the Comisión Nacional de Riego (Chile), will be held on 4 October 2012. Graham will remain in Chile a few days thereafter to work with José Luis Arumi and other colleagues on artificial groundwater recharge.
Stay tuned for details!
- Author: Carole Hom
Ryan Meyer, writing in the scientific journal Nature, recently praised the US Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) for its realistic, compelling, and nuanced views about the role of science in addressing climate change.
You can get the full story here.
- Author: Carole Hom
A recent op-ed in the Wall Street Journal, signed by 16 scientists, has caused considerable stir among climate scientists. The authors of the op-ed argue that the earth's climate is not warming, and that those who cite evidence to the contrary are alarmists who seek to divert funding from governments and the private sector toward their own ends.
A number of other scientists and writers have publicly weighed in on the WSJ op ed, both to refute some of the claims of the op-ed and comment on the integrity of science. You can read some of them here.
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