ICE News and Announcements

CEQA with Steve Blum

torrskel — Mon, 05 May 2008 14:56:57 -0700

Download the presentations from Steve Blum, Senior Staff Counsel for the State Water Resources Control Board.

Mike McCoy and the New York Metropolitan Transportation

torrskel — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 14:33:27 -0700

Mike McCoy, ICE Co-director will address the New York Metropolitan Transportation Commission on Thursday May 1st on the topic of integrated transportation land use modeling. The New York Metropolitan Transportation Commission notes that “A million more people are expected to live in New York City by 2030, two million more when Long Island and the lower Hudson Valley are included, and four million more in the twenty-eight county, tri-state metropolitan region as a whole. This growth will undoubtedly lead to more congested roadways, buses, trains, and even sidewalks.

ICE Tricolored blackbird research featured in the Sacramento Bee

jfquinn — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 14:11:00 -0800

Most of the world's population of tricolored blackbirds are found in the Central Valley of California, and in the past century their numbers have declined dramatically. Most tricolor nesting occurs in a few large, temporary colonies, and often these colonies are located in grain fields that are due to be harvested days before young tricolors leave the nest. ICE research biologist Bob Meese is leading the statewide efforts to document the changes in the blackbird populations and is working with a diverse group including farmers and other landowners to detect and monitor at-risk colonies and to conserve these colonies so that the birds' efforts to reproduce are successful. Dr. Meese's work is featured in the January 9 Sacramento Bee.

Geo298: Advanced Computing in Geography

dwaetjen — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 15:49:54 -0700

Spatial Technologies Seminar
Advanced Computing in Geography
GEO 298, Fall 2007
CRN #56951, 2 Units

1137 PES (GIS Teaching Lab)
Mondays 4-7pm

Prerequisites: 1 Geographic Information System course, and one computer programming course or equivalent experience. (Space may be available for an experienced undergraduate by instructor consent)

Course Description: A review of modern GIS tools through hands on GIS, GPS and Web development in a team programming environment. Possible topics include cartography tools, ArcGIS extensions, GPS processing, Geo-Statistics and web mapping applications from a programming environment perspective.

KQED: Saving the Tricolored Blackbird

lizbit — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 10:46:21 -0700

Bob Meese, an ICE ecologist, has been working with tricolored blackbirds, a California near-endemic songbird and species of special concern, for over three years. Bob worked with the late Bill Hamilton, an emeritus professor in the Department of Environmental Science & Policy, and continues the work begun by Professor Hamilton 15 years ago to better understand the causes for, and suggest solutions to, the species decline. Once the most numerous songbird in coastal California, the tricolor has been extirpated as a coastal breeder and is largely confined to the Central Valley and southern California. Bob works under contract to the U.S.

Geography Seminar Series -- "Impact of Global Warming on Himalayan Ecosystems" - Ramesh Sharma

jfquinn — Tue, 29 May 2007 16:06:56 -0700

The Information Center for the Environment and the Geography 297 Seminar are proud host Dr. Ramesh Sharma at UC Davis. He will be speaking in the Geography Seminar Series, Wednesday at 4:10pm, in Wellman 230 on the topic of the "Impact of Global Warming on Himalayan Ecosystems"

On Thursday at noon in 2124 Wickson Hall he will be making another address titled: "Restoration of Mountain Fluvial Aquatic Environment Degraded by Transportation Network in Garhwal Himalayas."

Both presentations are open to the university community and the public. Feel free to distribute this announcement to any who may be interested.

Biographic sketch of Dr. Ramesh Sharma:

Seminar: Restoration of Mountain Fluvial Aquatic Environment Degraded by Transportation Network in Garhwal Himalayas

jfquinn — Tue, 29 May 2007 15:59:26 -0700

Professor Ramesh Sharma will give a talk entitled:

"Restoration of Mountain Fluvial Aquatic Environment Degraded by Transportation Network in Garhwal Himalayas."

at noon in 2124 Wickson Hall. UC Davis, sponsored by ICE and the Geography Graduate Group.

Ramesh Sharma is the professor and chairman of the Department of Environmental Sciences, H. N. B. Garhwal University, Srinagar-Garhwal, Uttaranchal, India and an internationally recognized leader in the study of long-term and large-scale environmental change in the Himalaya mountains. He has degrees in zoology, freshwater fishery biology and a doctor of science (D.Sc.) in environmental biology.

UC Davis Geography Seminar Series

jfquinn — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 11:55:41 -0700

The Geography Seminar Series features weekly speakers on the application of geographic information to public policy. Planned speakers for Spring 2007 are

April 4: Quinn Hart and Roger Kunkel (UCDavis, CSTARS and the California Resources Agency ) -- "GIS Web services in practice"

April 11: Marco Trombetti (CSTARS_ -- "Using Artificial Neural networks to estimate vegetation canopy water content from MODIS data"

April 4: Mark Nechodom (U.S. Forest Service, Sierra Nevada Research Center) -- "Public Costs and Benefits from the Use of Wildland Biomass for Energy Production: A Life Cycle Assessment Approach to Quantifying Public Goods"

ICE Biological Inventories database Indexed by ISI 'Current Contents'

rjmeese — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 11:57:40 -0800

Thomson Scientific (http://scientific.thomson.com), a division of Thomson Corporation (http://thomson.com), publishes a wide variety of information retrieval applications, including BIOSIS, Current Contents, Zoological Record, and numerous others. The ICE Biological Inventories of the World's Protected Areas (http://ice.ucdavis.edu/bioinventory/bioinventory.html) was recently indexed in Thomson Scientific's Current Web Contents, a collection of scholarly web sites that meets well defined criteria (http://scientific.thomson.com/free/essays/selectionofmaterial/cwc-criter...).

ICE hosting the Caltrans Road Ecology Meeting: Project Delivery in Practice 2007

rjmeese — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 11:05:08 -0800

ICE is hosting the once every three year statewide meeting of California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) biologists from 27 February - 1 March at the Walter A. Buehler Alumni & Visitors Center. This three day meeting will provide a forum for Caltrans biologists to exchange information and experiences related to fish passage, wildlife corridors, mitigation, interagency collaboration, the development and use of GIS predictive models, and related issues.

Nat Seavy awarded CALFED Postdoc with ICE and PRBO

jfquinn — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 14:17:42 -0800

Nat Seavy, currently with the USGS at the University of Hawaii, Hilo, has been awarded a prestigious CALFED Fellowship to conduct research on bird conservation biology with ICE and PRBO Conservation Science.

Christine Meynard receives her Ph.D.

jfquinn — Mon, 28 Aug 2006 00:00:00 -0700

ICE graduate student Christine Meynard received her Ph.D. in Ecology for her studies on species distributions and local richness patterns: from simulations with artificial species to conservation planning for birds of the Chilean forests.

She will give a final seminar in 2124 Wickson Hall on September 7, and will begin a prestigious postdoctoral appointment in her native Chile in October.

Congratulations!

ICE poster wins first place at ESRI User Conference

neroth — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 14:31:05 -0700

A map entitled "Spatially Integrated Reporting of Environmental Critera for Resource Management: An Example from Lake Tahoe" Has placed first in the "Best Software Integration" category at the 2006 ESRI User Conference in San Diego.

The map described the process by which ICE assisted the USFS in reporting climatic data based on predefined mapping units. ICE demonstrated that an integrated reporting system could greatly simplify the process of preparing a lengthy summary of data.

Dr. Emma Underwood publishes new volume on the Terrestrial Ecoregions of Africa and Madagascar

jfquinn — Tue, 15 Feb 2005 00:00:00 -0800

Dr. Emma Underwood publishes a new book in the WWF eco-regions assessment series:

ICE provides technical assistance to the Great Valley Center in producing the Economic Indicators Report for 1999 to 2004

mcmccoy — Sun, 23 Jan 2005 00:00:00 -0800

The Information Center for the Environment (ICE) at the University of California, Davis provided technical assistance to the Great Valley Center (GVC or www.GreatValley.org) in the recent publication of "The State of the Great Central Valley: Assessing the Region Via Indicators: The Economy." A group of ICE employees headed by Nathaniel Roth and including input from Michael McCoy, Dr. Joshua Viers, and Joshua Johnson provided mapping assistance to GVC staff members.

Bob Meese to represent ICE at Biodiversity Informatics Workshop in India

rjmeese — Thu, 18 Nov 2004 00:00:00 -0800

Dr. Robert Meese has been invited to participate in the Joint International Workshop on Biodiversity Informatics in Pune, India, December 7-9, 2004. Dr. Meese joins colleagues from the U.S. National Biological Information Infrastructure (NBII; http://www.nbii.gov) and Indian scientists at a 3 day workshop hosted by the National Chemical Laboratory in Pune.

California Senate honors 10 years of ICE service

jfquinn — Mon, 01 Nov 2004 10:39:32 -0800

California Senate honors 10 years of ICE service.

Statewide General Plan maps now available for California

jfquinn — Tue, 05 Oct 2004 00:00:00 -0700

The California Resources Agency has compiled all city and county general plan maps and put them on the Web. The myriad local land use categories have been standardized into 13 land use types, which allows one to view patterns at the county, region, and state levels. Go to: http://legacy.ca.gov/new_atlas.epl to open the site. Then, click on Land Ownership and Use. Select General Plans. This layer is the plans as received and standarized. You have to zoom onto a part of the state, for the map to draw. You can zoom in and out and query features.

ICE to present Cosumnes Research at CALFED Science Symposium

jfquinn — Mon, 04 Oct 2004 01:00:00 -0700

ICE Programmers and Analysts will be presenting ongoing research at this year's Science Symposium. Also look for Sydney Vergis' poster on the Geography of the Delta; Sydney is a senior undergraduate in Environmental Policy and Planning and an intern at ICE.

ICE and California NBII host the abstracts for the 2004 Calfed Science Conference (Sacramento, Oct. 4-6)

Mon, 04 Oct 2004 00:00:00 -0700

ICE and California NBII host the abstracts for the 2004 Calfed Science Conference (Sacramento, Oct. 4-6).

ICE Co-director, Mike McCoy addresses National Transportation Research Board mid-year meeting

mcmccoy — Mon, 16 Aug 2004 00:00:00 -0700

Mike McCoy will address the mid-year meeting of the National Transportation Research Board's Committee on Environmental Analysis in Transportation.

ICE efforts central to Gov. Schwarzenegger's California Performance Review

jfquinn — Tue, 03 Aug 2004 18:10:00 -0700

ICE created CEQAnet II, a web portal and map service, to facilitate the electronic capture of environmental documentation used as part of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA). These efforts were recognized by the California Performance Review, a comprehensive effort to examine business practices by the State of California as ordered by Governor Schwarzenegger, as being a critical and streamlining technology to improve resource conservation, in general, and the environmental review process conducted by state agencies, in particular.

Ecologist Ingrid Hogle to present ICE research at the Society for Conservation Biology Conference

jhviers — Fri, 30 Jul 2004 00:00:00 -0700

ICE Vegetation Ecologist Ingrid Hogle will present ongoing invasive species research at the following:

18th Annual Meeting
Society for Conservation Biology
July 30th to August 2nd, 2004 - New York, New York, USA
Her poster presentation is based on the following abstract:

SPATIAL ANALYSIS OF PERENNIAL PEPPERWEED INFESTATION IN A SEASONAL FLOODPLAIN

Ingrid B. Hogle, Joshua H. Viers, James F. Quinn, Mark W. Schwartz, Becky Waegell, Kaylene Keller

Dr. Joshua Viers to speak at the AWRA Riparian Specialty Conference

jhviers — Mon, 28 Jun 2004 00:00:00 -0700

AWRA 2004 Summer Specialty Conference
Riparian Ecosystems and Buffers:
Multi-scale Structure, Function, and Management
June 28-30, 2004
The Resort at Squaw Creek
Olympic Valley, CA

Dr. Viers will be presenting the following paper:

GEOMORPHIC CONFINEMENT AS A PREDICTOR OF RIPARIAN EXTENT AND VEGETATION COMPOSITION

Joshua H. Viers, James F. Quinn, Michael L. Johnson, and Susan L. Ustin

General Plan Data & Map Release

admin — Thu, 29 Apr 2004 01:00:00 -0700

The Resources Agency in conjunction with the University of California Davis are proud to announce the release of the first ever seamless General Plan map of California. All county general plans and many city general plans were integrated into one statewide Geographic Information System (GIS) dataset. The data were standardized to thirteen consistent land use classifications for the intent of natural resource and infrastructure planning.

ICE to co-sponsor annual Salmonid Restoration conference

jfquinn — Wed, 17 Mar 2004 00:00:00 -0800

The 22nd Annual Salmonid Restoration Conference and 14th International Salmonid Habitat Enhancement Workshop will be held in Davis, California at the Veteran's Memorial Center from Wednesday, March 17th through Saturday, March 20th, 2004. The Salmonid Restoration Federation will host this conference entitled "Collaborative Watershed Efforts for Salmonid Recovery" in collaboration with the American Fisheries Society-Fisheries Management Section and Trout Unlimited.

ICE Co-Director Michael McCoy Elected President of California Planning Roundtable

jfquinn — Sun, 01 Feb 2004 00:00:00 -0800

Michael McCoy, co-director of the Information Center for the Environment in the Department of Environmental Science and Policy, was elected president of the California Planning Roundtable for 2004. The organization promotes creativity and excellence in planning by providing leadership in addressing important land use, transportation, and natural resources planning issues in California. The Roundtable has historically advised the Legislature, the governor, city and county planning officials and members of the profession on matters of planning policy and practice.

ICE completes 7-year Geospatial WaterBodySystem (GeoWBS)

jfquinn — Sun, 01 Feb 2004 00:00:00 -0800

After seven years, the ICE team that programmed GeoWBS is celebrating mission accomplished. GeoWBS is a spatially driven enterprise GIS developed for the State Water Resources Control Board to catalog and assess waterbodies pursuant to the Clean Water Act.

Dr. Virginia Dale to visit ICE

jfquinn — Thu, 29 Jan 2004 00:00:00 -0800

Dr. Dale is a leading landscape ecologist who has applied her skills to ecological modeling, forest dynamics, forest responses to global climate change, decision analysis, and most recently assessing effects of land-use change and providing a decision support framework for environmental decision-making. She has authored or edited 6 books and over 140 articles. She is editor-in-chief of Environmental Management and on the editorial boards of several other journal

Dr. Carolyn Hunsaker to Visit ICE

jfquinn — Wed, 21 Jan 2004 00:00:00 -0800

Dr. Carolyn Hunsaker, a senior scientist with the USDA Forest Service and principal investigator of the Kings River Experimental Watershed ecosystem study will be visiting ICE for an informal talk in 3201 Hart Hall from 2:00pm - 3:00pm.

Salmon return to Putah Creek

jhviers — Mon, 05 Jan 2004 01:00:00 -0800

Professor Peter Moyle, an ICE collaborator, documents spawning chinook salmon in Putah Creek.

Professor Jim Quinn quoted in the L.A. Times

mcmccoy — Fri, 12 Dec 2003 01:00:00 -0800

A Los Angeles Times story on the U.S. Forest Service's study of the effects of increased grazing and logging in the Sierra Nevada's 11 national forests quotes Jim Quinn, professor in the Department of Environmental Science and Policy, who was part of a team of scientists and academics who reviewed the study at the Forest Service's request. Quinn said that scientists remain concerned that a number of species in the Sierra Nevada would "react badly" to the proposed increases. A similar story in the Sacramento Bee quoted Quinn extensively.