California’s San Joaquin Valley produces an enormous share of the nation’s fruits, nuts and vegetables. But it takes an unsustainable amount of groundwater to do it. New state rules aimed at reducing groundwater use are expected to force up to 20 percent of the valley’s irrigated fields out of production – a blow to farmers and communities.
“Research Remix” is a new public affairs show on UC Davis radio station KDVS, co-created by Jonathan Berlingeri to interview fellow grad students and postdocs at the university.
Fourth-year undergrad Sharada Karthik won first place at the recent MANRRS conference for explaining how techniques such as CRISPR can contribute to food security.
Undergrad Jackeline Limon won a $5,000 grant from Breathe California to take soil samples from 15 Yolo County locations and measure bits of plastic pollution in them.
Amanda Wong and Gail Taylor call on scientists to standardize their study of microplastics in soil to clearly understand how they impact plants in real-world agriculture.
Faculty and grad students mentor local high schoolers as part of a national program to share what they have learned with a new generation of scientists.
By winning a scholarship to attend an ag industry conference, doctoral student Oluwatosin Adebanjo accessed holistic resources to help him become a leader in the ag sector.
Yufei Qian and team in the lab of Gail Taylor offer guidelines for breeders to improve growth and nutrition of leafy greens for controlled environment agriculture.
Grad student Ana Zepeda offers tips for disaster planners, culled from interviewing women who lead community gardens in San Juan, Puerto Rico, after Hurricane Maria.
Alessandro Ossola is studying trees in the Altadena and Palisades areas, trying to understand death, recovery and lessons for rebuilding after future wildfires.
