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The Barn, 122B
University of California
One Shields Avenue
Davis, CA 95616-8527

530.752.JMIE (5643)
FAX 530.754.9141

Climate Change Solutions and Implementation

Seminars: January through May, 2008

A seminar series to explore the policy, science and business driven by needs to address climate change, and how that will transform funding, green innovation and academics. Schedule of speakers at http://johnmuir.ucdavis.edu/events/climatesolutions.html.

Climate Change 101 in Sacramento

Seminars: January through June 2008

If you are a state agency employee, legislative staffer or interested citizen who wants to better understand climate change, then UC Davis has a lunch invitation for you. This winter and spring university experts will travel to downtown Sacramento to teach you what they teach their students on campus about the science, technology and policy aspects of climate change, and its impacts on California. The seminars are free. Lunch will be provided at a low cost. Discussions will follow each talk. Perhaps best of all: No quizzes!

UC Davis will present the 12 talks on alternating Thursdays through June 19 at noon in the California Environmental Protection Agency (Cal EPA) building, 1001 I St., Sacramento. Although the topics will be presented in a logical sequence, each talk is intended to stand on its own, and missing one or more will not detract from understanding the others. A detailed schedule of speakers and topics is online at: http://lawr.ucdavis.edu/seminars_cc101.htm.

Global Climate Change and Your Backyard

Conference: Friday, May 30, 2008 – Saturday, May 31, 2008

The California Center for Urban Horticulture will host the CA&ES Global Climate Change and Your Backyard Conference on Friday and Saturday, May 30–31, 2008. Conference highlights include a panel discussion moderated by Ira Flatow, NPR’s science correspondent and host of Talk of the Nation. The keynote address will be given by Katy Moss Warner, president emeritus of the American Horticultural Society. Conference topics will investigate the impacts of global climate change and its relationship to horticulture and the urban forest. The $150 general admission conference registration fee includes admission to the event, parking, and lunch on both Friday and Saturday. Admission for UC Davis Arboretum members and master gardeners is $125. Please register by Monday, May 19, 2008, at http://ccuh.ucdavis.edu/events.

New Book Examines World's Disappearing Glaciers

News: February 22, 2008

A new book co-edited by a UC Davis professor of environmental science and policy looks at the world's dying glaciers from all sides -- scientific, social and economic. "Darkening Peaks: Glacier Retreat, Science, and Society" brings together researchers from five continents to discuss how scientists study glaciers, how climate change is altering glaciers' size and distribution, and what effects those alterations have on human life. Orlove has studied the relations of people to places, plants and animals in Latin America, Africa and Australia. His current research focuses on climate, particularly the human dimensions of year-to-year climate variability, such as how people cope with El Nino events. He studies traditional forms of forecasting among peasant and indigenous people; the use of forecasts in modern societies; and the influence of globalization on current responses to climate variability. In addition to his faculty appointment at UC Davis, Orlove is an adjunct senior research scientist at the International Research Institute for Climate and Society at Columbia University.