- 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
UC Berkeley's Geospatial Innovation Facility (GIF) is offering 10 training workshops this semester that use a hands-on approach to help you get started using spatial analysis to enhance your research.
GIF workshops are available at a subsidized rate of $84 each for all UC students, faculty, and staff, and $224 each for all non-UC affiliates. View the GIF website to learn more about the following workshops and to register.
- 1/31, 12-4 pm. Intro to Geographic Information Systems (GIS): Environmental Science Focus
- 2/7, 12-4 pm. Intro to Geographic Information Systems (GIS): Social Science Focus
- 2/21, 12-4 pm. Intro to Global Positioning Systems (GPS): Working with Garmin receivers=
- 3/7, 12-4 pm. Intro to Remote Sensing: Understanding digital imagery
- 3/14, 12-4 pm. Intro to Remote Sensing:Pixel-based analysis
- 3/21, 12-4 pm. Intro to Remote Sensing: Land cover change analysis
- 4/11, 12-4 pm. Intro to Remote Sensing: Object-based image analysis (OBIA)
- 4/18, 12-4 pm. Intro to Open Source GIS: Working with Quantum GIS (QGIS)
- 4/25, 12-4 pm. Creating your own web maps
- 5/2, 12-4 pm. Intro to species distribution modeling
Pan-Optics: Perspectives on Digital Privacy and Surveillance
March 6, 10:30 a.m.-4 p.m. 310 Sutardja Dai Hall, Banatao Auditorium
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Featured Speakers: Rebecca MacKinnon, Senior Research Fellow, New America Foundation; Trevor Paglen, Artist, Social Scientist, and Author
Advances in drone aircraft, networked cameras, and recent disclosures about the NSA’s international and domestic surveillance activities have stimulated public protests, outrage from activists, and new policy discussions among elected leaders. This symposium will highlight emerging perspectives on visual privacy and consider the state of the art from a variety of disciplines and professions, including technology, journalism, filmmaking and the arts.
Though traditionally considered separate domains, visual and digital surveillance practices are being combined as machine vision, facial recognition and other technologies become more sophisticated and interoperable. Institutional surveillance by semi-autonomous drones and remote cameras, citizen video monitoring, and incessant photo-sharing and tagging on social networks enable perpetual documentation. The same tools can be used for both transparency and repression.
This symposium will bring together scholars and practitioners from a range of disciplines to discuss privacy protections, surveillance methods, and modes of resistance in a digital age. The program will feature two keynote addresses and two panel discussions that will explore emerging surveillance technologies and applications across a range of contexts, and then turn to resistant strategies employed by individuals and organizations in response.
Registration required: $20 General Admission, $10 Faculty or Staff, $5 Students
In a recent article published in the Guardian, Michelle Kilfoyle and Hayley Birch discuss the widespread use of citizen science initiatives. They recently produced a report (pdf) for the Science for Environment Policy news service, in which the authors review a number of citizen science case studies, and explore the potential benefits of citizen science for both science and society, especially given the advent of new mobile technologies that enable remote participation. They also ask interesting questions about who really benefits the most from these developments: the amateurs or the professionals?
- How could new and developing technologies help citizen science projects feed into environmental policy processes?
- Is environmental data produced by citizen scientists as accurate as environmental data produced by professional scientists?
- How can citizen science benefit environmental monitoring and policymaking?
