UC Davis | Institute of the Environment

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Forestry-Summit

California Forestry Workforce Summit

Nov 6-8, 2023

Direct air capture

Seminar Series: Large-Scale Carbon Removal via Direct Air Capture

Nov 15, 2023

Lisa Schulte Moore

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

Jan 24, 2024

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Latest News

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

Emily Schlickman at the scene of a prescribed burn

Art, Wildfire, and Innovation with Professor Emily Schlickman

by Adam Jensen
July 12, 2023

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Congratulations to our Environmental Policy and Management Graduates

by Jullianne H Ballou
June 28, 2023