Are you a Central Valley college or university student? Join us the weekend of April 21 for the SWF Water Hack Challenge. Prizes up to $2,500! Register at securewaterfuture.net/waterhackchall…

🎬 California Natural Resources Agency invites you to a screening & discussion of “California's Watershed: Healing” on 4/21/23. Panelists include: Angela Avery Sierra Nevada Conservancy + Andrew Fecko placerwater + Don Hankins Chico State + Nichole Morgan California Department of Water Resources. Info & RSVP: forms.gle/NCinWPAmmjekz4…

That is 64000 acres and we are not even near the peak snowmelt, it is going to be worse than the flooding in 83

Check out this publication on runoff generation mechanisms and thresholds, led by ALIVA NANDA doi.org/10.1016/j.jhyd…

UC grad students are invited to apply for the UC Water Academy: Wildfire and Water by Monday, May 29! From August 14-18, we will take grad students on a four-day expedition. UC Merced UC Davis UCLA UC San Diego UC Riverside UC Santa Barbara UC Santa Cruz UC Irvine UC Berkeley

Our next UC Water Institute webinar is going to be on Monday 5/22 starting at noon Pacific. We will be hosting Eta Takele, a farm management economist with Ag&Natural Resources, who will be talking about Avocado production in High Water Cost Region of California. Zoom link: ciwr.ucanr.edu/News_and_Event…

listen to SNRI UCMerced's Safeeq Khan talk with Ag&Natural Resources colleagues about implications of this season's historic snowpack

When Tulare Lake flooding upended Allensworth middle and high school students’ summer camp plans, Allensworth Progressive Association (APA) coordinated with UC Merced 4Venir (SEEN), SNRI UCMerced, and National Parks Institute UC Merced Extension to host memorable UC Merced lab tours and a 1st-time YNP visit!

Tioga Road (continuation of Highway 120 through the park) will not be open for the Independence Day holiday. (6/6)

SNRI Director Tom Harmon SNRI UCMerced attended last week’s Carnegie Endowment for International Peace #CarnegieCalifornia launch event in San Francisco. SNRI research informs Labor and Automation in #California #Agriculture, #ClimateChange and #ClimateAction solutions.

A new $2M NSF Award funds research on Robot-farmworker collaborations in agriculture. Read about this and other recent awards to SNRI faculty for research on SJV climate resilience, wildfire behavior, flood risk, Sierra snowmelt, and more! tinyurl.com/3xndzmen

Don't miss Wild & Scenic Film Festival film screening of California's Watershed Healing and panel discussion with Wade Crowfoot, Willie Whittlesey Yuba Water Agency, Eli Elano USFS-Tahoe National Forest and SNRI UCMerced faculty Roger Bales and Martha Conklin! #Climatesolutions #SYRCL

Last weekend's screening of California's Watershed Healing Wild & Scenic Film Festival was a success! Special thanks to panel moderator, SYRCL's Aaron Zettler-Mann SYRCL, panelists, and attendees for thoughtful discussion of restoring healthy forests tinyurl.com/up5pntbc

The 2024 Sierra Nevada Science Symposium, hosted this week at @UCMerced, was a resounding success! Two days, 200+ attendees, 61 talks, 47 posters, a deeply inspiring co-stewardship panel with tribal representatives, and Science for Management. More info: tinyurl.com/58fyuh4j

SNRI x VISTA & LACA ! Recently, SNRI student assistant, Neil Khapre, assisted Ana Grace Alvarado and Humberto Flores Landero measuring soil CO2 flux values at the Experimental Smart Farm located on campus. Check out some pictures below!

SNRI faculty Director Tom Harmon , and his Labor and Automation in California Agriculture (#LACA) group hosted Breznitz Dan , leading scholar on innovation, for a whirlwind tour of challenges and opportunities for green innovation in the #SanJoaquinValley and #SouthernSierra.

On Friday, SNRI faculty and grad student researchers helped host the Self Help Enterprises Leadership Institute, designed to help community leaders learn more about the science of hydrology and how to manage their water systems more effectively. Safeeq Khan SelfHelp Enterprises

SNRI recently hosted superintendent Scott Borba and his LeGrand Elementary Robotics Club. Thanks to Eleanor King CITRIS at UC Merced for inspiring drone flight lessons and Carpin lab affiliates for CO2bie environmental robot driving demo.

Environmental Systems Grad Group Chair, Emily Moran, and SNRI Faculty Director, Tom Harmon, welcomed faculty, students, and researchers at the 2024 SNRI/ES Fall Welcome. Thanks to all who attended and helped make this a great event to kick off the new semester!

SNRI researchers Emily Williams, Katherine Hegewich, and faculty John Abatzoglou find recent trend of extended drought recovery times, with important implications for climate resilient communities.