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…
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…
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.…
A fire’s impact on the land doesn’t end when the smoke clears and the flames are extinguished. Fire makes lasting changes on the land—all the…
Over the course of the Summer 2020 CECS Internship, the science communications intern team was tasked with creating a variety of materials to share the…
By Erica Mendoza, UC Irvine, CECS Summer 2020 Intern The Sierra Nevada’s forests play an important role in the regulation of California’s climate by absorbing…