2023 SNRI Research Week Events

“California’s Watershed: Healing” Documentary Film Screening (Tuesday, March 7, 2023)

5:30pm -7:30pm  |  UC Merced Conference Center

The UC Merced Sierra Nevada Research Institute hosts a free campus screening of the new documentary film, “California’s Watershed: Healing,” on March 7th, 6:00pm at the UC Merced Conference Center. This documentary film presents immediate, viable, and implementable solutions for the urgent problems facing California’s forested watersheds. A sequel to the 2018 documentary, “Beyond the Brink,” this new film explores what is needed to meet the threats of climate change, wildfires, and inaction by public agencies and the implications for California's forests, watersheds, state economy, food and water security, and national security.

Join us for a free screening, followed by Q&A session with forest and watershed expert panelists and film Director and Executive Producer, Jim Thebaut.

5:30pm Doors open, refreshments available, 6:00pm Film, 7-7:30pm Q&A session. Open to the public. 

Registration for this free event is recommended https://www.eventbrite.com/e/californias-watershed-healing-film-screening-and-discussion-tickets-543284467467  

Contact SNRIevents@ucmerced.edu or see https://snri.ucmerced.edu/ for additional information

  


 

2023 SNRI Research Symposium: “Climate Action Research @ UC Merced: Lightning Talks” (Thursday, March 9, 2023)

10am-12pm | UC Merced Conference Center

UC Merced Sierra Nevada Research is home to exciting and relevant environmental research for the Central Valley, Sierra Nevada mountains and foothills, and beyond! The 2023 SNRI Symposium, “Climate Action Research @ UC Merced,” is geared toward science and lay audiences alike. Lightning talks by SNRI researchers and students display the full range of science being used to tackle the environmental challenges of today and tomorrow. Join us and vote for your favorite talks, which will receive travel award funding to support graduate student and early career researchers.

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Networking event for SNRI affiliates from 12-1pm; contact mstephens3@ucmerced.edu to register by 3/1/23,