Climate Adaptation Seminar Series (CASS)

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Climate Adaptation Seminar Series - Winter Quarter 2023

The Climate Adaptation Research Center is currently organizing an online webinar series to highlight emerging ideas and voices in the field of climate change adaptation, risk management, and resilience-building. The series is a public event that brings together researchers and scientists with stakeholders, policymakers, and community leaders from California and beyond to learn about each other’s work. 

Sign up over Zoom: https://ucdavis.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIrcOioqj8sHdwUeEsXWXg8kd7zQW2euun-

 

Past Events

Adaptive Evolution in the Genomes of Plant Species

Date: Wednesday, January 25th 10:00 a.m. PT

Description: Plants have been adapting to their environments since they first evolved some 500 million years ago. Today, many plant species are imperiled by the onset of rapid climate change. Armed with new DNA sequencing and genome editing technologies, our lab looks for the signatures of adaptive evolution in the genomes of plant species that feed our plant and provide the foundation of our ecosystems. By advancing a fundamental understanding of how plants adapt to climates, we hope to accelerate the development of solutions that address the burgeoning challenges facing agriculture and environments at the interface of climate science and plant genetics.

Presented By: Grey Monroe, Assistant Professor for the UC Davis Department of Plant Sciences, UC Davis Genome Center

Recording: https://youtu.be/tMpaSu4SMj0

Climate Action for Health, Equity, and Community Resilience

Date: Wednesday, February 1st 10:00 a.m. PT

Description: This presentation will focus on the California Department of Public Health's work to advance health, equity, and community resilience in the face of climate change. Presenters will discuss CDPH's approach to addressing the climate crisis through climate policy and planning that focus on the social determinants of health, such as housing, land use, transportation, food systems, jobs, and more. CDPH works towards policies, systems, and environmental change to improve living conditions and reduce climate-related health vulnerabilities with and for communities experiencing inequities.

Presented By: Dan Woo & Abigail Ramirez, California Department of Public Health (CDPH) Office of Health Equity's Climate Change and Health Equity Section (CCHES)

Slides: UCD-CARC-CDPH-Presentation-20230201-FINAL.pdf

Nature-based Solutions for Urban Climate Adaptation

Date: Wednesday, February 15th 10:00 a.m. PT

Description: Nature-based solutions are increasingly pitched as viable and cost-effective tools for climate change adaptation and mitigation. The truth is that many ‘types of nature’ might lack viable solutions to climate change in the first place. Maladaptive interactions between governance, natural, social and technical spheres can further compound – not resolve – climate threats for humans and urban environments. Here we will critique current NBS approaches and discuss opportunities and limitations to advance urban research and practice and accelerate much-needed climate innovation for a 50°C world.

Presented By: Alessandro Ossola, Leads the Urban Science Lab at UC Davis 

Recording: https://youtu.be/hzb59D8rGSQ

California Biodiversity Strategies and Cutting the Green Tape Initiative

Date: Wednesday, February 22nd 10:00 a.m. PT

Description: Madeline Drake presents the efforts of the California Natural Resources Agency to implement the 30x30 initiative. 30x30 hopes to conserve 30 percent of land and 30 percent of our waters by 2030 to combat the biodiversity and climate crisis.

Presented by: Madeline Drake, Assistant Secretary for Biodiversity and Habitat at the California Natural Resources Agency

Recording: https://youtu.be/Os8jmX2jk7s

Fast-tracking Climate Tech Research from Lab to Impact

Date: Wednesday, March 8th 10:00 a.m. PT

Description: Addressing the climate crisis requires not only new technologies but also a new expedited approach to getting solutions developed in the lab into the hands of practitioners and communities who are at the forefront of climate change impact. We will discuss trends in climate tech, the role that an industrial research lab like IBM Research plays in the innovation ecosystem, and role of new partnership models created around climate and sustainability such as industry consortia, sustainability accelerators and the open-source community.

Presented By: Marina Rakhlin, Program Director of Partnerships for Climate and Sustainability at IBM Research

Recording:https://youtu.be/a2B949W9mls