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Information Center for the Environment
Website:
http://www.ice.ucdavis.edu
Location: 2120 Wickson Hall
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The Information Center for the Environment (ICE) is a
cooperative facility supporting projects of an
interdepartmental faculty, with funding from over a dozen
agencies and programs.
The Center is housed within the College of Agricultural
and Environmental Sciences at UC Davis. Begun as an
agricultural extension school, the College of Agriculture
and Environmental Sciences maintains a long history of
developing and applying natural resource science to
environmental issues of local, regional, and national
significance.
ICE continues this tradition, providing the following
services: Geographic information system (GIS), database, and
modeling development and support Development of easy-to-use
public access to a wide variety of environmental information
through our Web server. Our ICE Web server hosts data, maps,
models, reports, and other related products.
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Center for Ecological Theory
Contacts:
Alan Hastings -
amhastings@ucdavis.edu
Marcel Holyoak -
maholyoak@ucdavis.edu
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Theoretical ecology refers to the use of approaches,
typically employing mathematics or computers, to understand
the dynamics of populations, communities and ecosystems.
Work currently under way focuses primarily on questions in
which a spatial component is important. Specific issues
include understanding the dynamics of invasive species, such
as Spartina alterniflora, an introduced salt marsh cordgrass,
and the design and placement of marine reserves to preserve
diversity and maintain fish stocks.
Other issues under study
include food web dynamics and the dynamics of organisms in
marine systems off the west coast of the United States.
Collaborators in these efforts include other faculty at
Davis, at other UC campuses and others throughout the world.
These efforts also lead to new advances in the field of
nonlinear dynamics.
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Center for Environmental Conflict
Analysis
Website:
http://www.des.ucdavis.edu/research/ceca
Contacts: Paul Sabatier -
pasabatier@ucdavis.edu
Mark Lubell -
mnlubell@ucdavis.edu
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The Center for Environmental Conflict Analysis (CECA) is
comprised of a team of researchers using scientific methods
to understand how people resolve conflicts over
environmental resources.
Environmental conflicts involve deeply held values and
beliefs of stakeholders who may disagree about scientific
uncertainty, the magnitude and aspects of a policy problem,
its causes, and its policy solutions. Our research involves
understanding the factors that facilitate or prevent
conflict resolution, with a focus on comparing alternative
policy institutions. Many of the projects are designed to
assess the effectiveness of collaborative processes intended
to facilitate stakeholder cooperation. The conflicts studied
in CECA cross policy domains including watersheds, forests,
marine/coastal systems, and biodiversity. Common features of
most CECA studies are the use of multiple theoretical
frameworks and the use of scientific methods of data
acquisition and analysis to help unravel these complex
policy disputes.
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Tahoe Environmental Research Center
(TERC)
Website:
http://terc.ucdavis.edu
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The Tahoe Environmental Research Center is dedicated to
research, education and public outreach on lakes and their
surrounding watersheds and airsheds. Lake ecosystems include
the physical, biogeochemical and human environments, and the
interactions among them. The Center is committed to
providing objective scientific information for restoration
and sustainable use of the Lake Tahoe Basin.
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Tahoe Research Group (TRG)
Website:
http://trg.ucdavis.edu
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Traditionally, UC Davis research at Lake Tahoe has been
directed toward the basic scientific understanding of
ecological processes in high mountain aquatic environments.
However, during the last decade the focus has expanded to
include watershed and lake management.
If the lake is to
regain its environmental health, further study that includes
predictive modeling and consistent monitoring combined with
close working relationships with public agencies, homeowners
and the business community must be conducted in order to
develop public policy that balances human and environmental
needs. A multidisciplinary approach that encompasses a much
larger scope than was previously addressed is now being
undertaken.
In concert with public and private partners within the
basin and at UC Davis, the TRG has presented a comprehensive
outline for future research at Tahoe that has broad
applicability to the entire Sierra Nevada.
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Institute of Transportation Studies
Website:
http://www.its.ucdavis.edu
Contact: its@ucdavis.edu
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Since its founding in 1991, the Institute of
Transportation Studies at UC Davis (ITS-Davis) has evolved
into a multi-faceted center with 40 affiliated faculty
members and more than 70 graduate students.
It maintains
leading programs in transportation research, education, and
outreach. It receives funding from government agencies,
foundations, and companies (including most of the major
international car and oil companies), and a variety of
prestigious academic and research institutions.
Research
programs on travel behavior, advanced vehicle technology,
and environmental impacts of transportation are
internationally recognized as among the best in the world.
The Institute also houses the innovative Transportation
Technology & Policy graduate program, the recipient of a
$2.6 million award from the National Science Foundation for
outstanding interdisciplinary graduate education.
The
outreach program includes ongoing seminars, workshops, and
conferences, featuring leaders and experts from around the
world in industry, government, and academia.
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Bodega Marine Lab
Website:
http://www.bml.ucdavis.edu
Location:
Bodega Marine Laboratory
2099 Westside Road
Bodega Bay, CA 94923-0247
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Opened in 1966 by the University of California Berkeley
Campus, Bodega Marine Laboratory (BML) has been managed by
UC Davis since 1984. The Lab's mission encompasses research,
teaching, and public education in marine and coastal
terrestrial science. Bodega Marine Laboratory offers
undergraduates one of the best deals in scientific training,
providing the rigor and intimacy of a private academy
combined with the prestige—and affordability—of the
University of California.
For more information reguarding the teaching programs at
BML please visit our website at
http://www.bml.ucdavis.edu/student-info/
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UC Natural Reserve System
Website:
http://nrs.ucdavis.edu
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The U. C. Natural Reserve System is the largest and most
diverse set of university-owned and operated reserves in the
world. Its 33 reserves include examples of nearly every
major ecosystem in the state. These reserves provide secure
sites for long-term environmental research, education and
public outreach. They enable monitoring of environmental
health, and provide a baseline for ecosystem restoration, in
the context of California's rapidly growing population and
the changing global environment.
Six reserves are administered by the Davis campus: Bodega
Marine Reserve, Eagle Lake Field Station, Jepson Prairie
Reserve, Donald and Sylvia McLaughlin Reserve, Quail Ridge
Reserve and Stebbins Cold Canyon Reserve. These reserves
represent a wide variety of habitats in close proximity to
the campus. For further information about the individual
reserves and for applications for reserve use please see
below.
UC Davis Natural Reserve sites
http://www.des.ucdavis.edu/research/facilities.asp#nrs
Bodega Marine
Reserve straddles Bodega Head, California's northernmost
exposure of coastal granitic rock, thought to be displaced
hundreds of miles along the San Andreas Fault. The diverse
habitats of beach and harbor, exposed and protected coast,
and coastal uplands make the Bodega Marine Reserve an ideal
site for research and instruction.
Eagle Lake, the
second largest lake entirely within the boundaries of
California, lies in an isolated valley on the eastern side
of the Sierra and Cascade ranges. The lake's geologic
isolation provides a unique set of biological communities.
Jepson Prairie is
widely known for harboring one of the least-disturbed
examples of the perennial bunchgrass prairie that once
covered one-fourth of California. Jepson's vernal pools are
also a holdover from the past. Jepson Prairie also contains
a small amount of freshwater marsh habitat.
The McLaughlin
Reserve encompasses several geologic formations, two
watersheds (Putah and Cache Creeks), and a variety of
vegetation including oak woodland, nonserpentine chaparral,
serpentine chaparral, and grasslands. It is one of few sites
in California that protects unusual serpentine habitats.
Quail Ridge Reserve
is located on peninsula within Lake Berryessa. While the
most immediately impressive plant communities within the
reserve are the fine stands of native bunchgrasses, plant
communities within the reserve included chaparral, oak
savanna, pine-oak woodland and riparian woodland.
Mostly steep
canyons with intermittent streams and year-round pools. Some
year-round springs and seeps. Grasslands, riparian
woodlands, live oak woodlands, and chaparral habitats.
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This site lists selected
publications written about Castle Lake, describes the
research
and data conducted, and includes a detailed overview of
the
Castle Lake food web. There is also an extensive
photo
gallery which provides a more visual representation of
the scenery and biota of the region.
This lake is well studied, and with its long-term dataset
which dates back to 1959, Castle Lake is one of the best
documented lakes in the world!
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