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Michelle Goman
Dr. Goman receives NSF Research Grant

Dr. Michelle Goman received funding for a large, 5-year interdisciplinary research project in Oaxaca, Mexico. The research encompasses looking at environmental change, human impacts on the environment and linkages to past and societal collapse. Dr.

Kale Bunch
GEP's Caitlin Hachmeyer receives Farm Advocate of the Year Award

GEP's Caitlyn Hachmyer received the Advocate of the Year award from the CA Small Farms Conference for work with a team at Celebrating Women’s Leadership in Food.

Temperature Reading Sensor and Wiring
Soto: Monitoring, recording, and visualizing temperature data

Accurate temperature measurements are needed to monitor and reduce energy use and greenhouse gas emissions in building, industrial, and other processes.

Jose Javier Hernandez Ayala
Professor Hernandez Ayala's Summer Work w/ NASA & Climatology

Dr. Hernandez Ayala was a mentor for NASA’s Neurodiversity Network Internship Program, helping a high school student produce a research project that focused on examining the extreme rainfall climatology of the western United States.

Maps of Vegetation and Fire Scars
Using multispectral imagery and 3D point clouds for monitoring forest structure and the impacts of wildfire
Wildfire shapes vegetation assemblages in Mediterranean ecosystems, such as those in the state of California, United States.
Satellite view of wildfire
Hernández Ayala: Linking rainfall, vegetation growth and wildfire patterns

In recent years, California has experienced wildfire seasons of increasing frequency and magnitude, especially in terms of wildfire burned areas.

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GEP and Global Students on the Dean's List- Spring 21

99 GEP students made the Dean's Spring 21 List.

Beaver in the Grass
Dr. Baldwin and the Calif. Beaver Summit

GEP Prof. Baldwin and the School of Social Sciences hosted the first California Beaver Summit. The webinar was attended by 980 registrants representing 25 States and 4 countries.