UC Weed Science (weed control, management, ecology, and minutia)

UCIPM and California Department of Pesticide Regulation are holding at Long Beach on June 19 and Dixon on June 22 [8am-3pm] Open to all but focused on school staff and landscape pest management contractors that work with (or want to work with schools) The Department of Pesticide Regulation (DPR) has...

Graduate student, post-doc, and technician positions available to investigate the genetics of invasiveness and herbicide resistance in aquatic plants Description: Assist with a funded research project combining molecular genetics and field/greenhouse studies to investigate the genetic basis of growt...

Occasionally plants show up in our office for identification and no one in the office knows what it is. So it's sent off to others who might know. This was the case of a perennial amaranth, also called goosefoot for some reason. This is Chenopodium californicum, also known as Blitum californicum.

One of the many advantages of being part of DRAAWP is the multiple occasions to meet and work with people from a variety of backgrounds. There have been many opportunities to interact with a variety of disciplines, from satellite imaging and economics to water chemistry and weed control.

In the job listing for my position, weed identification and management were never explicitly mentioned. Natural resource efforts in the listing only mentioned water, forage, soils and the wide array of issues relating to rangeland ecosystem services.