Genome sequencing may save California’s legendary sugar pine
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- Written by Pat Bailey
- Category: California News
Davis, California - The genome of California’s legendary sugar pine, which naturalist John Muir declared to be “king of the conifers” more than a century ago, has been sequenced by a research team led by UC Davis scientists.
NSF grant to help UC Davis preserve rare Hupa native language
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- Written by Karen Nikos-Rose
- Category: California News
Davis, California - About an hour inland from Eureka, in Humboldt County, California, there remains a small group of people who speak Hupa, a critically endangered Native American language. Members of the Hoopa Valley Tribe for many years have been actively engaged in revitalizing their language. Now, their efforts will be supported by Justin Spence, an assistant professor at the University of California, Davis.
Training computer models to accurately simulate nature's variability
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- Written by Ker Than
- Category: California News
Stanford, California - Borrowing insights from techniques used to image cancer, Stanford scientists have devised a new method for generating "training images" that can be used to fine-tune models of uncertainty about underground physical processes and structures.
California Department of Food and Agriculture’s Fertilizer Research and Education Program accepting concept proposals for the 2016 grant cycle
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- Written by IVN
- Category: California News
Sacramento, California - The California Department of Food and Agriculture’s Fertilizer Research and Education Program (FREP) is currently accepting concept proposals for the 2016 grant cycle. FREP’s competitive grant program funds research that advances the agronomic and environmental performance of fertilizing materials.
Natural or manmade quakes?
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- Written by John Anderson
- Category: California News
Stanford, California - A new study by Stanford researchers suggests that earthquakes triggered by human activity follow several indicative patterns that could help scientists distinguish them from naturally occurring temblors.
Will El Niño end California’s drought?
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- Written by Association of California Water Agencies
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Sacramento, California - The stage is set for a strong El Niño event this winter, but experts are cautioning that heavy rain and even flooding in some parts of the state will not necessarily end California’s four-year drought.
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