Dear Friends of Water UCI, This has been a busy year for Water UCI. We recently established a Leadership Board to help build and financially grow Water UCI’s capabilities in research, teaching, and public outreach and have been engaged with them remotely during the pandemic. Among other things, we have: Partnered with four local water…Continue Reading Water UCI 2021 Newsletter
Water UCI Colloquium Series: Local Non-Profits Discuss: The Future of Water in Southern California Click here to view event recording. Non-governmental actors are major players in the creation and production – up and downstream – of water management. This panel discussion invited representatives from a diverse set of nonprofit organizations to talk about the future…Continue Reading Local Non-Profits Discuss: The Future of Water in Southern California
Water UCI Colloquium Series: Supplementing Southern California’s Water Supply Through Seawater Desalination: Challenges and Opportunities Click here to view the event recording. The use of desalinated ocean water to supplement Southern California’s limited water supply is an often- contentious proposal. Water UCI invited leaders in desalination technology and policy to discuss both the challenges and…Continue Reading Supplementing Southern California’s Water Supply Through Seawater Desalination: Challenges and Opportunities
Water UCI Colloquium Series: Hydraulic Fracturing: Impacts to California’s Water Supply Click here to view the event recording. Hydraulic fracturing is a process used to increase the rate at which fossil fuels can be recovered from natural reservoirs. This water-dependent practice has implications for California’s water supply in both the short and long term. Water…Continue Reading Hydraulic Fracturing: Impacts to California’s Water Supply
Water UCI Colloquium Series: The Future of Water in Southern California Click here to view event photos….Continue Reading The Future of Water in Southern California
Water UCI Colloquium Series: Water and Energy Utilities Discuss: The Water Energy Nexus Water and energy systems are closely linked and provide synergistic opportunities for resource management. Four leaders join together to discuss the challenges and opportunities for water and energy synergies with a focus on Southern California. Featured: Paul Weghorst, Executive Director of Water…Continue Reading Water and Energy Utilities Discuss: The Water Energy Nexus
Featuring John Christensen, founder of the Laboratory of Environmental Narrative Strategies at UCLA and Sandra Tsing Oh, host of daily science segment, “The Loh Down of Science” Water UCI Colloquium Series: Communicating Water Science Creatively: Taking Knowledge From the Lab to Classrooms and Communities Click here to view the event recording. …Continue Reading Communicating Water Science Creatively: Taking Knowledge From the Lab to Classrooms and Communities
Dr. MacDonald is the John Muir Memorial Chair of Geography, Director of the White Mountain Research Center and UCLA Distinguished Professor Water UCI Colloquium: Some Wider Perspectives on California’s Drought Click here to view event photos. …Continue Reading Some Wider Perspectives on California’s Drought
Jennifer Jay, Professor in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at the University of California Los Angeles. Water UCI Colloquium Series: From cattle farms to surfers, environmental antibiotic resistance in California and role of environmental education in the carbon footprint of student dietary choices This talk will cover two research areas in the Jay Lab:…Continue Reading From cattle farms to surfers, environmental antibiotic resistance in California and role of environmental education in the carbon footprint of student dietary choices
Dr. Kara Nelson is a Professor of Environmental Engineering and Associate Dean of Equity and Inclusion in the College of Engineering at U.C. Berkeley. Water UCI Colloquium Series: Will direct potable reuse make drinking water safe? Piped water systems have enabled billions of people around the globe to gain access to improved drinking water over…Continue Reading Will direct potable reuse make drinking water safe?