- Contributor: Steven D Wright
- Contributor: Gale Perez
Congratulations to Dr. Anil Shrestha, Professor of Plant Science at California State University, Fresno, who received not one but TWO awards:
- 2015 Provost's Award for Excellence in Teaching—the highest faculty honor at Fresno State
- 2014-2015 Outstanding Advisor Award
From the Fresno...
- Author: Lynn M. Sosnoskie
This is a summary of a presentation that I made at the 2015 CWSS Annual Meeting in Santa Barbara, CA, last January.
Introduction:
We love our smart phones. REALLY LOVE THEM. Most of us have them (or will soon have them). We also spend a lot of time on them; more than two hours per day with the majority of that time spent using applications (apps).
Figure 1. Current and projected smart phone ownership in the United States. Data via www.statista.com
Figure 2. Distribution...
- Posted by: Gale Perez
STATE OF CALIFORNIA
DEPARTMENT OF PESTICIDE REGULATION
Title: ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENTIST
Salary: $3,077.00 - $3,809.00
Posted: 05/12/2015
Final filing date: 06/01/2015
FULL POSITION DESCRIPTION: http://jobs.spb.ca.gov/wvpos/more_info.cfm?recno=616621
Job Description:
Appointment to this position is pending administrative approval.
Job Reference Number: PRB-1417
Would you like to be part of a team charged with protection of human health and the environment? If you are, look no further than the Department...
- Author: Elise S Gornish
Many researchers have attempted to identify the magic combination of elements needed to control the cover and spread of Medusahead (Taeniatherum caput-medusae), an invasive winter annual grass. Individually, these attempts have yielded a variety of outcomes that sometimes suggest opposing strategies for effective weed control. Recently, researchers at UC Cooperative Extension and UC Davis attempted to leverage the collective value of these disparate investigations. They conducted a systematic review in order to understand if any broad conclusions could be drawn to highlight effective techniques for weed management. The authors found that short-term control of Medusahead can be achieved by using most combinations of burning,...
- Author: Carl E. Bell
- Posted by: Gale Perez
Carl Bell
Emeritus, University of California, San Diego, CA
carl@socalinvasives.com
The intentional manipulation of wild plants to become desirable crops was the beginning of agriculture some 10,000 years ago. Along with this beginning came weeds; unwanted plants that prospered in the same human-created environments. Weeds are therefore just as much a part of our domestic culture as the crops. So the history of weed control technology is co-existent with the history of agricultural technology. If you search the internet for the history of agriculture, you will find lots of information. If, however, you search the internet for the history of weeds, you will be disappointed by the lack of literature and...