4C. Science Session

Community Views and Actions to Sustain Water Resources in California

This session will share UC ANR program activities that are having impact on water resource management at statewide, regional, or local scales. It will highlight activities and impacts across California’s diverse watersheds and give early, mid, and late career staff opportunities to converse and network. Please consider joining the conversation.

Moderator: Ruth Dahlquist-Willard, Small Farms Advisor, Fresno County (invited)

10:30 Functional Forests and Rangelands

10:30 Forestry Perspective – Susie Kocher, Forestry and Natural Resources Advisor, Central Sierra CE
10:40 Rangeland Perspective - David Lewis, County Director and Watershed Management Advisor, Marin CE

10:50 Conservation-Minded Urban Landscapes

10:50 Southern California - Amir Haghverdi, CE Watershed Management Specialist, UC Riverside
11:00 Central California - Karrie Reid, Environmental Horticulture Advisor, San Joaquin CE

11:10 Water Management Conundrum in Irrigated Agriculture

11:10 On-Farm Water Conservation - Khaled Bali, CE Water Management Specialist, Kearney Research Extension Center
11:20 Active Groundwater Recharge - Thomas Harter, Statewide Groundwater CE Specialist, Dept. of Land, Air and Water Resources, UC Davis

11:30 Drinking Water Problems and Solutions

11:30 Informing Policy with Research - Laura Vollmer, Project Policy Analyst, Nutrition Policy Institute
11:40 Project 4-H2O - Joint presentation
- Charles Go, 4-H Youth Development Advisor, Alameda and Contra Costa CE
- Marisa Neelon, Nutrition, Family and Consumer Science Advisor, Alameda CE

11:50 Panel question and answer opportunities

12:00 End

Planning Committee: Allan Fulton, Darren Haver, Doug Parker, Christina Hecht, Susie Kocher, Tapan Pathak