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Seminar Series: Lisa Schulte Moore and Daniel Karp on Sustainable and Resilient Agriculture

Jan 24, 2024

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Seminar Series: Nell Green Nylen on Prioritizing Water Rights Enforcement Between Droughts

Mar 13, 2024

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Latest News

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Working Lands Innovation Center to Partner with Lawrence Livermore Laboratory for Dept. of Energy Earthshots™ Program

by Elena Peters
October 06, 2023

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Economics Professor David Rapson Shares Insights on the Future of EVs on PBS

by Elena Peters
September 30, 2023

A distinguished professor in the UC Davis Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences and director of the UC Davis Institute of the Environment, Isabel Montañez was recently named as the 2023 recipient of the Geological Society of America’s Arthur L. Day Medal. (Karin Higgins/UC Davis)

A Career Built in Deep Time

by Greg Watry
August 24, 2023