Category Archives: Climate change
Act now to avoid irreversible climate tipping point, scientists urge
By Kat Kerlin Five UC Davis faculty members joined more than 500 top global change scientists in signing a statement that outlines the key environmental issues – from climate change to pollution and population growth — policymakers must address to …
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Humboldt Award for work on past and future climate change
Professor Howard Spero, chair of the Department of Geology, has received a Humboldt research award from the German government. Spero will use the award of 60,000 Euros (about $78,000) towards a sabbatical in Germany next academic year. Spero studies changes …
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UC Davis, Lawrence Berkeley Lab forge closer ties
Contributed by Emma Estrella and Sharon Ruth, Office of Research “A small galaxy of diverse research” — that’s how plant biology professor Luca Comai describes UC Davis’ relationship with the UC-run Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, as they begin a new …
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Video: Wildfires becoming hotter, faster and more frequent as climate changes
From Colorado’s record-breaking Waldo Canyon fire to blazes burning across California, Washington and western rangelands, the summer of 2012 — like many recent summers — has been marked by a long, intense wildfire season. It has claimed thousands of acres, …
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Ancient climate expert joins AAAS panel on climate mitigation
UC Davis geoscientist Isabel Montañez will take part in a symposium on how to stabilize global CO2 levels at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Vancouver next week. Montañez’ speciality is in studying …
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Geological record holds clues to modern climate change, experts say
The distant past could hold clues to how the Earth’s future climate would respond in an environment with high levels of atmospheric greenhouse gases, says a new report from the National Research Council. The report, written by a committee chaired …
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Does evolution drive ecology? And a Science twofer
It’s widely accepted that ecology drives the evolution of new traits, but is the reverse also true? In the Jan. 28 issue of the journal Science, UC Davis expert Thomas Schoener describes growing evidence that it does, and explores what …
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Dr Verosub Goes to Washington
Last February, on his first day at the State Department, Ken Verosub was told to prepare a briefing book on water issues for Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton. A few weeks later, on World Water Day, Clinton drew on …
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400-year old oyster shells and the history of Jamestown
The English colony at Jamestown, Va. was nearly wiped out in its early years by a severe drought. Now UC Davis geologists are helping archaeologists understand the history of the settlement by studying layers of oyster shells dumped in a …
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Snowball Earth and Carbon Swings
Last week a team of geologists from Princeton University published a paper in Science showing a massive change in the Earth’s carbon cycle some 720 million years ago. At the time, the Earth may have been in a “snowball” phase: …
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