Jaeeun Sohng is an Earth Scholar at the UC Davis Institute of the Environment.  Sohng recently earned her Ph.D. in the Soils and Biogeochemistry Graduate Group at UC Davis and is currently continuing her research as a postdoctoral scholar at the UC Davis Institute of the Environment. Her work investigates how Enhanced Rock Weathering (ERW), combined with organic carbon inputs, affects microbial activity, carbon dynamics, and soil carbon sequestration in agricultural soils.

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Heehay Park is a PhD Candidate in University of California, Davis Pharmacology & Toxicology program, working on Alzheimer's disease and air pollution research with Dr. Laura Van Winkle of the Institute of the Environment's Center for Health and the Environment.

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Kallee is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Geography Graduate Group whose research focuses on measuring social vulnerability across California communities from 2000-2020. Her research uses census data to evaluate historic trends and to anticipate those in the future. Specifically, her research examines rapidly urbanized areas and flood-prone communities.

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Seth Whiteaker is a Junior Specialist working at the UC Davis Institute of the Environment. Whiteaker works with a team of Institute of the Environment-funded Sustainability Scholars on the California Collaborative for Natural Climate Change Solutions (C4NS).

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Stuart Morrison is a Ph.D. Candidate in Agricultural and Resource Economics. Morrison’s project will find optimal ways to manage electricity grids with high levels of renewables to support the clean energy transition. This would allow renewables to be used to their full potential and advance the transition to renewable-powered electricity grids.

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Jadda Miller is an Environmental and Climate Justice Scholar at the UC Davis Institute of the Environment. Miller is a Ph.D. Candidate in Science Education and Native American Studies.

Elisabeth Sellinger is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences. She’s exploring carbon sequestration in seagrass meadows before and after restoration.

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Kase Wheatley is an Environmental and Climate Justice Scholar at the UC Davis Institute of the Environment and a Ph.D. Candidate in the Geography Graduate Group. Wheatley’s project examines how regional and statewide land-use transition efforts can center environmental justice through ecological and social accountability to historically dispossessed and underserved communities. 

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Authors: Rosalía Aguilar-Medranoa, John R.Durand, Víctor H.Cruz-Escalona, Peter B. Moyle