Photo by Matt Howard on Unsplash By Meghan Cook, UC MercedCECS researchers are improving our ability to track wildfires and predict their behavior as illustrated…
Photo by Marcus Kauffman on UnsplashBy Meghan Cook, UC MercedNew CECS research models wildfire ignition probability in California and the many factors that drive those ignition events. This…
By Meghan Cook, UC Merced In California’s Sierra Nevada, as daily summer temperatures increase, wildfires become bigger and more likely, according to a new paper by…
California’s water supplies are in trouble as climate change worsens natural dry spells, especially in the Sierra Nevada Several of California’s reservoirs were at less than…
By Claire Tauber, CECS Summer InternIn 2020, California and the US Forest service announced a shared commitment to treat one million acres of forest and…
The CECS team is proud to release the Carbon Vulnerability Visualization Tool! This visualization tool shows projected changes to aboveground carbon stocks across California over this…
Redwood forests such as this one in California’s Humboldt County are key components of the state’s climate change mitigation efforts, but UCI researchers suggest that…
CECS is working to develop thoroughly evaluated, open-source data products to inform and optimize land management decisions across California. To ensure these products are as relevant…
The CECS team is proud to release the Fire Progression Visualization Tool! This new app shows daily fire spread for 32 of the largest multi-day…
By: Jaquelyn Lugg, UC Merced While scientific advances have the power to inspire us, the challenges presented by climate change can still feel insurmountable sometimes.…