Small salmon, big threat
By monitoring fish populations and environmental conditions, Professor Stephanie Carlson’s lab helps water managers and farmers make better decisions about water diversions, which could protect native fish.
Newfound groups of bacteria are mixing up the tree of life
Scientists have identified more than 35 new groups of bacteria, clarifying a mysterious branch of the tree of life that has been hazy.
Practicing Agroecology in the City
Miguel Altieri's Lab uses the concepts of agroecology to obtain a deep understanding of the nature of agroecosystems and the principles by which they function.
2015 GSA Faculty Mentor Award Goes to Justin Brashares and Bree Rosenblum
In addition to their work mentoring students through the Berkeley Connect program, Brashares and Rosenblum are known for supporting students academically, professionally, and personally.
Chryl Natasha Elaine Corbin Honored with ESPM 2015 Distinguished Service Award
As president of the ESPM Graduate Diversity Council, Corbin has been instrumental in advocating for departmental diversity.
Silver Lab Receives Innovation Award from American Carbon Registry
The lab is recognized for helping to develop a first-of-a-kind carbon offset methodology to quantify emissions reductions from the application of compost to rangelands.
Human security at risk as depletion of soil accelerates, scientists warn
Steadily and alarmingly, humans have been depleting Earth's soil resources faster than the nutrients can be replenished.
2015 Gradfest Symposium Keynote: A Discussion with Mark Bittman
The 2015 Gradfest keynote lecture was an extended Q&A Session with award-winning journalist and New York Times columnist Mark Bittman.
Conservation & Resource Studies Minor Wins University Medal
Radhika Kannan, a conservation and resource studies minor, was just named UC Berkeley’s top graduating senior.
2015 Awards and Fellowships Honor Graduate Students and Faculty
This year’s GradFest included finishing talks from graduating PhD students, a discussion with food journalist Mark Bittman, and remarks from the Graduate Diversity Council, as well as some outstanding finishing talks by ESPM graduate students.
Fixing a Broken Food System: Claire Kremen at Edible Education 101
The food system is multi-disciplinary and complex, involving agroecology, agronomy, anthropology, economics, nutrition, sociology, and the arts.
Citizen science helps predict spread of sudden oak death
Efforts to predict the emergence and spread of sudden oak death, an infectious tree-killing disease, have gotten a big boost from the work of grassroots volunteers.
Berkeley Ranks First in Environmental Sciences for Third Consecutive Year
The ranking appears in the 2015 QS World University Rankings by Subject, released today.
Wildfires emit more greenhouse gases than assumed in state climate targets
A new study by Professor John Battles and collaborators at the National Park Service quantifies the amount of carbon stored and released through California forests and wildlands.
Madeline Girard on discovering "Sparklemuffin" and "Skeletorus"
Through her research as part of the Rosenblum lab, Girard discovered two new species of peacock spiders and is working to build a phylogeny of the entire group.
Professor Miguel Altieri Receives Honorary Doctorate from the Université Catholique de Louvain Belgium
Altieri was recognized for his significant contributions to the development of new food production models in changing global and environmental conditions.
Eight ESPM Students Receive NSF Graduate Research Fellowships
The NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program recognizes and supports outstanding graduate students in NSF-supported science, technology, engineering, and mathematics disciplines.
2015 Albright Lecture: Public Education and Public Lands
A featured conversation with Sally Jewell (U.S. Secretary of the Interior), Janet Napolitano (President of the University of California), Douglas Brinkley (Historian and Author), and Nicholas B. Dirks (UC Berkeley Chancellor).
Cousins, McNicol named UC Sustainability Fellows
ESPM graduate students Stella Cousins and Gavin McNicol will be working to study climate and sustainability in support of UC's goal of achieving carbon neutrality by 2025.
Tensions Between Safety and Sustainability in the Field
My research has drawn me to Yuma, to the self-proclaimed “winter vegetable capital of the world,” to better understand what it takes (and at what cost) to grow safe fresh vegetables such as leafy greens.
