Retired banker and walnut farmer Allen Hackett establishes endowed scholarship
After spending 35 years in the agricultural lending business and another 25 years as a walnut farmer, Allen Hackett (M.S. ’66 agricultural economics) knows a thing or two about investing in the land.
When fires ripped through suburban subdivisions in Santa Rosa last October, they may have done more than reduce homes to ashes. By incinerating all kinds of materials — insulation, electronics, furniture, cleaning products, pesticides — at very high temperatures, they could have created unknown or previously unrecognized health hazards in the smoke and ash. Researchers from the University of California, Davis, are trying to figure out just what is in that ash and air.
MORNING, 2047: WORK IS WELL UNDER WAY as day breaks on this farm in California’s Central Valley. A robotic tractor drives along rows of tomato plants, with a snip-snip-snip as weeds are cut away. A drone hovers over a field, looking for signs of disease. In the feedlot, sensors show which cattle are thriving and which are eating less – an early sign of illness.
Slashing emissions to Paris Climate Agreement targets could reduce impacts 20-30 percent
Current levels of greenhouse gas emissions are putting nearly half of California’s natural vegetation at risk from climate stress, with transformative implications for the state’s landscape and the people and animals that depend on it, according to a study led by the University of California, Davis.
A fresh wave of students is setting sights on UC Davis
A new year is upon us and with it high school seniors and college transfer students throughout California and beyond are setting their sights on attending one of the best universities in the nation, UC Davis.
Recent statistics show that our campus attracted a record 95,207 applicants to study as freshman or transfer students in fall 2018. This is an increase of 7,550, or 8.6 percent, over last year. At the beginning of the current academic year, the campus as a whole enrolled 9,257 new students in fall 2017.
Some polar fish can cope with warming or ocean acidification, but not both together.
Some Antarctic fish living in the planet’s coldest waters are able to cope with the stress of rising carbon dioxide levels in the ocean. They can even tolerate slightly warmer waters.
Plant Pathology Professor Dave Rizzo earns national recognition
Plant pathology professor Dave Rizzo, the driving force behind a number of innovative student education programs at UC Davis, is being honored for his outstanding work in improving the undergraduate experience.
Spring-fed waters a critical habitat for cold-water fish
Rainbow trout like their water cold. As the climate changes and temperatures rise, cold-water fish species such as trout and salmon don’t fare well in waterways that run low and warm.
“Native fish in California are imperiled throughout the state,” said Carson Jeffres, field and lab director at the UC Davis Center for Watershed Sciences. “During the drought, we saw a dramatic change in the aquatic habitats that were available.”
UC Davis creates wine price database with crowdsourcing, famed catalogs
Feeling nostalgic as you get ready to toast the new year?
Recommendations for “best buys” in Champagnes and party menus from some 50 years ago are among the treats in a new crowdsourcing database of historic wine prices from the University of California, Davis.
