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Aerial image of the California Aqueduct
Posted inResearch Spotlights

Assessing Water Infrastructure Investments in California

by Terri Cook 4 May 20224 May 2022

Exploratory modeling in California’s Central Valley indicates that evaluating the costs, benefits, and risks to individual providers is necessary to ensure the viability of future water projects.

Aerial view created of a forest with lidar—with trees artificially colored in many colors—as well as buildings and open spaces in part of Yosemite National Park
Posted inFeatures

A Lidar’s-Eye View of How Forests Are Faring

by Van R. Kane, Liz Van Wagtendonk and Andrew Brenner 29 April 20223 May 2022

Success in Yosemite is driving the wider use of lidar surveys to support forest health and wildfire resilience, study wildlife habitats, and monitor water resources.

Netravati River in Karnataka, India
Posted inNews

A New Index to Quantify River Fragmentation

by Rishika Pardikar 27 April 202227 April 2022

Researchers have developed a new analysis based on a river’s catchment area as opposed its length.

Photo of gray dirt hill covered with burnt trees.
Posted inNews

Forest Fires Could Boost Western U.S. Water Supplies

by Jennifer Schmidt 21 February 202222 February 2022

Streamflow in the West has been below average since the early 2000s, but a new analysis shows that streams aren’t as dry as expected.

A DAS array captures a series of earthquakes and aftershocks that shook the Ridgecrest area in Southern California in 2019.
Posted inResearch Spotlights

Fiber-Optic Cables Can Produce High-Resolution Underground Maps

by Jack Lee 15 February 202216 February 2022

Telecom fiber repurposed as distributed acoustic sensing arrays can image near-surface structure and potentially improve seismic hazard mapping in urban areas.

A large, fully loaded container ship arrives at a busy port in California.
Posted inNews

Rising Seas Boost Tsunami Impacts on Distant Shorelines

by Katherine Kornei 31 January 202231 January 2022

Modeling suggests that rising sea levels will render Southern California ports increasingly vulnerable to waves from distant-source tsunamis.

A dust storm that hit Phoenix in 2011
Posted inResearch Spotlights

Rethinking How Valley Fever Spreads

by Saima Sidik 20 January 20222 February 2022

Scientists have long assumed that dust storms lead to infections with the desert soil fungus Coccidioides, but new evidence suggests otherwise.

Comparison of the performance of many different water resources management options based on four different objectives.
Posted inEditors' Highlights

Managing Strategic Water Resources in a Changing Climate

by Jim Hall 11 January 202220 May 2022

Another significant step has been taken in methods for managing water resources in the face of climatic changes and other future uncertainties. Dynamic adaptation is becoming a reality.

Image of a sawmill in Northern California.
Posted inNews

Clever Wood Use Could Mitigate Wildfires and Climate Change

by Andrew Chapman 5 January 202221 March 2022

California plans to use forest thinning to reduce wildfire risk. New research suggests the state could also see a climate benefit by repurposing waste wood produced by thinning.

A yellow-, red-, and blue-striped fumigation tent covers a building.
Posted inNews

Termite Fumigation in California Is Fueling the Rise of a Rare Greenhouse Gas

by Jenessa Duncombe 3 January 202221 March 2022

The insecticide sulfuryl fluoride isn’t included in federal or state emissions reduction goals.

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