Our colleague Barbara Laraia was recently interviewed by PBS newshour on her work linking stress and obesity in children. Barbara is the lead on our OurSpace project, in which Sam and Paulina and others are examining the interaction between food availability, walkability and health outcomes.
A very interesting interview: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/2014/01/why-stress-and-money-woes-may-lead-to-weight-gain.html
The University of California Agriculture and Natural Resources, a statewide program with local development and delivery, is seeking an Academic Coordinator to provide IGIS analysis, coordination and support to the Informatics and Geographic Information Systems (IGIS) team to the meet the IGIS mission. IGIS is established to assist and advance research and extension activities by coordinating the development of Informatics and GIS tools and applications and make them available through an online web‐accessible portal.
The IGIS program coordinator will coordinate with the IGIS leadership team to advance ANR’s Strategic Vision of close partnerships between researchers, Cooperative Extension specialists and advisors, and the people of California by providing geospatial and informatics tools, data, training, consultation, and map products to the Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources. The program coordinator will support IGIS interests and projects across ANR, encouraging collaboration across ANR operational units, and develop contacts within the University’s geospatial community.
Location headquarters: Davis or Berkeley, Calif.
Position description: http://ucanr.edu/Work_in_Progress/Jobs_990/?jobnum=556
IGIS website: http://igis.ucanr.edu/
ANR website: http://ucanr.edu/jobs/
UCOP web site: http://jobs.universityofcalifornia.edu/
The IGIS program coordinator will coordinate with the IGIS leadership team to advance ANR’s Strategic Vision of close partnerships between researchers, Cooperative Extension specialists and advisors, and the people of California by providing geospatial and informatics tools, data, training, consultation, and map products to the Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources. The program coordinator will support IGIS interests and projects across ANR, encouraging collaboration across ANR operational units, and develop contacts within the University’s geospatial community.
Location headquarters: Davis or Berkeley, Calif.
Job listing: http://ucanr.edu/Work_in_Progress/Jobs_990/?jobnum=55
ANR website: http://ucanr.edu/jobs/
UCOP website: http://jobs.universityofcalifornia.edu/
IGIS website: http://igis.ucanr.edu/
- Parts of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta will permanently flood.
- The Tulare Basin and San Joaquin River regions will have less irrigated agriculture.
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Urban areas will use less water per capita, reuse more wastewater and capture more stormwater.
Check out the California Water Blog - Resistance is futile: Inevitable changes to water management in California.
One image from NASA shows just how severe the California drought is click here for more about this image
Governor Jerry Brown officially declared a drought emergency in California, asking residents to voluntarily reduce their water use by 20 percent and committing to bolster the state's dwindling water supplies with better management and federal assistance. Read more here
