ESPM CE specialist and adjunct professor Adina Merenlender authored this post for the UC ANR Green Blog on increased visitation at parks and the impacts of human recreational activity on wildlife.
Vox | May 17, 2017
ERG professor Dan Kammen stars in this Climate Lab UCOP/Vox media collaboration video on nuclear energy technology. Kammen joins other nuclear energy experts in discussing new nuclear energy technology. Kammen noted that promising technologies include small modular reactors, which could have specialized uses.
Yale Environment 360 | May 11, 2017
ESPM professor Adina Merenlender is quoted in this Yale Environment 360 article on the expansion of Napa County vineyards, where concern is growing about the potential impact on forested regions, watersheds, and biodiversity. The transformation of shrub, oak, and conifer habitat into new vineyards threatens wildlife migration corridors, she says. “We’re down to the final pinch points,” says Merenlender, referring to narrow corridors that could eventually become functionally severed from the relatively expansive wilderness areas in the mountains north of Napa County.
Berkeleyside | May 08, 2017
PMB professor Mary Wildermuth is featured in this Berkeleyside article on her work with the Berkeley Public Schools Fund's Be a Scientist program, which brings research scientists from UC Berkeley into middle school classrooms to mentor students in science.
Daily Californian | May 04, 2017
ESPM undergrad Mackenzie Feldman authored this op-ed for the Daily Californian on her recent project on pesticide-free landscape management.Feldman recently met with members of Berkeley Open Source Food (including NST lecturer Kristen Rasmussen) to formulate potential plans to deal with weed growth on campus sans herbicide and pesticide use.
LA Times | May 03, 2017
ERG doctoral student Zeke Hausfather comments in this LA Times article on a newly published analysis that reconciles different climate change data sets and confirms dominant human influence in long-term warming. Hausfather, who was not involved in the paper, noted that the analysis offers a holistic explanation of all the research that has been chipping away at the "climate conundrum."
WaterDeeply | April 27, 2017
ESPM professor Scott Stephens is featured in this WaterDeeply article on California's massive number of dead trees - an estimated 102 million according to a US Forest Service aerial survey in November 2016. Stephens discusses prescribed burning as a potential management strategy for the enormous fire threat posed by the dead trees, but notes that there has never been prescribed burning on this sort of scale before.