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UC Agriculture & Natural Resources @ucanr.edu · 8d

🎉 UC ANR’s Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social joins the 2025 #TIME100Next, spotlighting 100 rising leaders worldwide. A climate scientist & communicator, Swain studies droughts, floods & wildfires—& makes complex science accessible to the public & policymakers.
More here: bit.ly/4nXePlk

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UC Water Institute @ucanrwater.bsky.social · 7d

🌊 Dive into the annual @ucanr.edu Water Webinar Series 2025-2026! Science for everyone!
📅 Oct 6 | 12 PM PT🎤 Dr. Ellen Bruno: “Managing California’s groundwater: SGMA’s early impacts & the role of groundwater markets”
💧 Free & Open Access – no registration needed!
🔗 Zoom: tinyurl.com/anrwaterwebi...

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Faith Kearns, Ph.D. @fkearns.bsky.social · 27d

This is that piece I wrote in 2017 @ucanrwater.bsky.social about research on potential fish returns to the Eel River if Scott and Cape Horn dams were dismantled ciwr.ucanr.edu/News_and_Eve...

News and Events

California Institute for Water Resources- News and Events

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Rose Hayden-Smith, PhD @rosehaydensmith.com · Aug 30

Be sure to join @weatherwest.bsky.social for a YouTube livestream to learn about the BC heatwave/wildfire threat & implications for #CAwx on Mon 9/1 @ 10am PST here:
www.youtube.com/live/X5NTeNW...

So glad that Dr. Swain is now also working with @ucanr.edu @ucanrwater.bsky.social. Follow all three!

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UC Water Institute @ucanrwater.bsky.social · Sep 4

California communities face emerging contaminants & aging water systems. CIWR’s Blog "The Confluence" shares research by Hope Hauptman on Point-of-use filters and Almond shell biochar. Follow our blog 👉 ucanr.edu/blog/conflue... to learn more about water in California! 🧐

The Confluence

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Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · Aug 21

Multiple new fires popping up in California today as heatwave continues to build. Most concerning fire at the moment is the #PickettFire in Napa County near Calistoga. Amid 100+ degree and breezy conditions, it's putting up quite the column, with some local evacs. #CAwx #CAfire

Current camera view of the Pickett Fire from AlertCam network.

Another current camera view of the Pickett Fire from AlertCam network.

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Pam Kan-Rice @ucanrpam.bsky.social · Jul 8

What made Texas floods so extreme?
"There was a confluence of multiple factors that came together to make this event as intense and as devastating as it was," Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social @ucanr.bsky.social told @cbsnews.com.web.brid.gy
www.cbsnews.com/video/climat...

Climate scientist explains what made the Texas floods so extreme

As rescuers in Texas search for survivors of the deadly flooding, CBS News is learning the worst-hit areas saw 12 inches of rain per hour in the early morning of July 4. For more on why this storm was...

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Ian James @ianjames.bsky.social · May 30

Along the Colorado River, a very dry spring has shrunk the amount of runoff streaming into reservoirs. The latest forecast shows the river’s flows into Lake Powell will probably be about 46% of average. "It’s going to make things worse." @weatherwest.bsky.social www.latimes.com/environment/...

Meager snowpack adds to Colorado River's woes, straining flows to Southern California

Melting snow from California's Sierra Nevada is filling reservoirs. But dry conditions have shrunk the flow of the Colorado River, straining a vital supply for Southern California.

www.latimes.com

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UC Water Institute @ucanrwater.bsky.social · May 9

Thanks for the tag :)

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UC Water Institute @ucanrwater.bsky.social · May 8

The California Institute for Water Resources 2024 Annual Report is out, detailing CIWR's programs, projects, research, and impacts with collaborators across California
tinyurl.com/2assdfkd
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Community Water Center @cwaterc.bsky.social · May 2

👀 Did you know millions of Californians still lack safe drinking water?
💬 Hear from top voices on the SAFER Program on Monday, 5/5 at noon.
🌐 RSVP for free ➡️ www.eventbrite.com/e/1330980060...

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UC Water Institute @ucanrwater.bsky.social · Apr 28

Happening Today! Join @ucanr.bsky.social's Water Program Team for the next Water Webinar series with Julie Ekstrom of @ca-dwr.bsky.social on, "Filling the Gaps in Drought Resilience for Rural Communities."

Join by Zoom: tinyurl.com/2bwfjd4u.

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UC Water Institute @ucanrwater.bsky.social · Apr 15

Join @ucanr.bsky.social's Water Program Team for the next Water Webinar series talk on April 28, 2025 at 12PM PT with Julie Ekstrom of @ca-dwr.bsky.social on, "Filling the Gaps in Drought Resilience for Rural Communities."

Join by Zoom: tinyurl.com/2bwfjd4u. Find past talks at tinyurl.com/26kskxwl

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UC Water Institute @ucanrwater.bsky.social · Mar 21

Join @ucanr.bsky.social Water Program Team for the next Water Webinar series talk on March 24th at 12PM, with Michael Loik of @ucsantacruz.bsky.social speaking on "Rain, Snow, and Fog in California Agriculture".

Zoom links: tinyurl.com/anrwaterwebi.... Find past talks at tinyurl.com/yuccgenm

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UC Water Institute @ucanrwater.bsky.social · Mar 12

New On Our Blog: How is water scarcity affecting agricultural land values in the Central Valley? With Joshua Viers and Siddharth Kishore of @ucmerced.bsky.social and Aaron M. Shew of Acres, we explore water availability as a driver of farmland valuations.

Read more here: ucanr.edu/blogs/blogco...

Real Estate Values and Agricultural Transitions in California's Central Valley

Blog of the California Institute for Water Resources | Univ of California | Ag & Natural Resources

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Jay Lund @jrlund.bsky.social · Mar 6

If this is true & it sticks, it would be a costly and deep reduction in federal capacity to support private and public water and flood problems. HEC perhaps the most useful & important water organizations in the world. Visiting foreigners are amazed that such a small group has such global impact.

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Faith Kearns, Ph.D. @fkearns.bsky.social · Mar 3

Like @weatherwest.bsky.social, I’ve managed to forge a career in this space - including with the same institution @ucanrwater.bsky.social - but it has been/is WAY harder than it should be considering the need.

Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · Mar 3

The focus of this Nature World View piece is not intended to be about me! Instead, the goal is to draw attention to a much broader problem: The reality that deep public engagement by domain experts is not really supported *anywhere*--and that desperately needs to change. [5]

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Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · Mar 3

Scientific institutions must create--and sustain--new kinds of roles so that researchers can provide the deep public engagement necessary to respond effectively to the escalating impacts of #climate change. The status quo isn't working. nature.com/articles/d41...

Climate researchers need support to become scientist-communicators

Scientific institutions must create roles so that researchers can provide the deep public engagement necessary to respond effectively to the escalating impacts of climate change.

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Greg Pierce @gregspierce.bsky.social · Feb 12

Came across an excellent (and one of the only) studies of any kind on how water utilities fight wildfires, from Maui in 2023:

Which interestingly starts "Even though drinking water utilities are not meant to fight wildfires..."

www.mdpi.com/2073-4441/16...

Water Supply and Firefighting: Early Lessons from the 2023 Maui Fires

Even though drinking water utilities are not meant to fight wildfires, they quickly become stakeholders, if not first responders, when their resources are needed for firefighting. The August 2023 wild...

www.mdpi.com

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UC Water Institute @ucanrwater.bsky.social · Feb 12

Join us for the next @ucanr.bsky.social Water Webinar series talk on Feb. 24, '25 at 12PM, with @edithdeguzman.bsky.social and @gregspierce.bsky.social: "Water Supply and the Los Angeles Fires: Emerging Lessons and Implications".

Zoom links: tinyurl.com/anrwaterwebi... and at tinyurl.com/yuccgenm

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California Council on Science and Technology (CCST) @ccst.us · Feb 11

JOIN: We're kicking off a virtual series on Climate Change and Human Mobility with UC Disaster Resilience Network and UC Center for Security in Politics.

Feat. Doug Parsons, Fonna Forman, Valerie Mueller, Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social.

🔗:
us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

#scipol #scicomm

A flyer with images, title, description, headshots, logos, and a QR code for the event.

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Asher Rosinger @asherrosinger.bsky.social · Feb 7

🌊 Proud to share our new paper showing how during a historic 2022 drought in n. Kenya chronic #stress (via nail cortisol) & high levels of #waterinsecurity were assoc. with ⬆️ levels of inflammation. Climate change negatively affects human health & biology. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

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Anne Jefferson @annejefferson.bsky.social · Jan 30

Hey #water folks, I created a list of water science organizations now on Bluesky. @cuahsi.bsky.social @agu-h3s.bsky.social @iahs-aish.bsky.social and 8 of 34 Sea Grants are there. What water science orgs am I missing?
bsky.app/profile/did:...

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UC Water Institute @ucanrwater.bsky.social · Feb 1

Releases from the dams were “excess water that downstream districts are allowed to hold in reservoirs to hedge against dry years.”

Trump’s emergency water order responsible for water dump from Tulare County lakes – SJV Water

The sudden announcement Thursday by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers that Kaweah and Success lakes would immediately begin dumping water was in response Trump’s emergency water order responsible for w...

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