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October 17, 2017
biography Dr. LeRoy Westerling is Associate Professor of Management at UC Merced and Co-Director of the Center for Climate Communication. His research interests include applied climatology and seasonal forecasting for wildfire management, climate change impacts on wildfire and related aspects of...
October 16, 2017
When UC Merced Associate Professor and Sierra Foothill Charter School parent Carolin Frank was working on her grant application to the National Science Foundation (NSF) to study the bacteria in conifer leaves and figure out if they take nitrogen from the air and give it to the tree, she knew she...
October 14, 2017
“NOTHING MORE than ash and bones.” That grim description of how some victims were found underscores the horror of the wildfires that swept through and devastated Northern California. At least 38 people were killed , including a 14-year-old boy found dead in the driveway of the home...
October 13, 2017
The deadly wildfires ravaging northern California have destroyed more than 3,500 homes and businesses, leveling entire neighborhoods and forcing thousands of residents to flee the flames. At least 31 people have died in the blazes, which have burned 265 square miles of land and rank among the...
October 13, 2017
Climate change means we will have more and more destructive wildfires. It’s an interesting theory but it’s not the real story. No one can argue with observations such as the University of California, Merced research that show the Western United States fire season has grown longer due...
October 12, 2017
SANTA ROSA, Calif. — As wildfires engulf nearly 170,000 acres of Northern California wine country, questions are swirling about the role of climate change in causing damage of historic proportions. The fires, which started late Sunday night in the hills of Napa and Sonoma counties, quickly...
October 10, 2017
Professor Clarissa Nobile is changing the way we look at microbes. She wants to understand them as they’re found in nature, not as they exist in the laboratory. And she was just awarded a five-year, $1.89 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to bolster her efforts....
October 9, 2017
The Canyon fire 2 burning in Anaheim hills has burned more than 2,000 acres and prompted evacuations of about 1,000 homes, destroying or damaging at least five homes. If history is any indication, this fire could continue to grow. According to analysis of 16 years of Calfire wildfire data, more...
October 3, 2017
The National Science Foundation recently awarded Professor Michael Dawson $900,000 to study some rather mysterious marine phenomena. Dawson received $700,000 — part of a three-year, $1.2 million grant awarded to Dawson and collaborators at UC Santa Cruz, the University of...
September 29, 2017
LIVERMORE — If you ever visit National Parks or medical offices, drink or use water (that’s all of us), worry about global warming or wonder at secrets hidden in the nighttime sky, the Rae Dorough Speaker Series has a 2017-18 lineup of your dreams. Launched in 2008, the lecture series...

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