[Enviro-lunch] Enviro-lunch (4/2) this Thursday

[Kyungjin Min]

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Hello all,

Hope you all had a good spring break. This week Dr. Zulema Valdez at UC
Merced will share her research about climate change justice. Please join us
this Thursday (4/2) between 12-1 pm for details.

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*Title:*

Climate Change and Wildfire Sufferance among Rural California Residents


*Abstract:*

This multi-method qualitative study examines how residents of a rural,
predominately-white, working-class tourist town in California – ravaged by
unprecedented wildfires and related cascading climate-related events –
understand, endure, and respond to a changing climate. Traditional social
science explanations tend to emphasize the cultural peculiarities of rural
communities, concluding that members are in denial, apathetic, collectively
avoidant, ideologically compromised, or too resentful (of elites, big
government, immigrant/racial minorities, and the like) to embrace the
scientific consensus that climate change is human-caused. Against this
mainstream research, I find that most rural residents in this western
Sierra town accept the empirical reality of rapid environmental destruction
they observe in their own community. In the context of unprecedented
wildfires over the last decade, I contend that rural residents enact *climate
sufferance, *a process of enduring, tolerating, and adapting to the
unavoidable and material impacts of a changing climate. Climate sufferance
is the predictable response by individuals and groups to hegemonic
intransigence at the level of the state to act against climate change.
*Bio:*
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Zulema Valdez is Associate Vice Provost for the Faculty and Professor of
Sociology at UC Merced. Areas of research and teaching expertise include
the study of immigrant entrepreneurship, undocumented students in higher
education, and health disparities and food access in low-resource immigrant
and ethnic minority communities. She is currently developing a new area of
research on the “future-present” of climate change. Professor Valdez has
received fellowship and grant support from the Ford Foundation, the
National Science Foundation, and the Social Science Research Council. Her
work has been published in many academic journals and edited volumes. She
is the author of two books, *The New Entrepreneurs: How Race, Class and
Gender Shape American Enterprise* (Stanford, 2011) and* Entrepreneurs and
the Search for the American Dream* (Routledge, 2015). In her efforts to
advance social justice and engage with the larger community, she volunteers
as facilitator for the Insight Garden Program at Chowchilla Women’s Prison
and serves on the advisory board for the American Bar Foundation’s Network
for Justice research initiative, “The Future of Latinos in the United
States: Law, Opportunity, and Mobility.” Valdez holds a PhD in Sociology
from UCLA.


KJ and Yang

Organizers for Spring 2020: KJ Min and Yang Yang
Faculty coordinator: Asmeret Asefaw Berhe


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You can find the semester schedule below.

*Date *

*Speaker *

*Topic *

*2/6*

Yang Yang

@ UC Merced

Altitudinal patterns of nutrient fluxes and pools at the Sierra Nevada



*2/13*

Jing Yan

@ UC Merced

Where small-scale process matters: linking transport behaviors of
nano-sized colloids and rhizosphere water, nutrient dynamics to soil
ecosystem functions

*2/20*

Dipankar Dwivedi

@ Lawrence Berkeley National Lab

Biogeochemical controls on river water quality: Quantifying dynamic
surface-subsurface interactions using reactive transport models



*2/27*

Lauren Hale

@ USDA

Utilizing rhizosphere microbiomes to improve soil health

*3/5*

Alex Leven

@ Fugro

Working outside of the academia

*3/12*

cancelled



*3/19*

Eric Slessarev

@ Lawrence Livermore National Lab

Using the state-factor concept to model pedogenesis at the global scale





*3/26*

spring break



*4/2*

Zulema Valdez

@ UC Merced

Climate Change and Wildfire Sufferance among Rural California Residents

*4/9*

Caddie Bergren

@ UC ANR

Climate smart agriculture



*4/16*

Hannah Waterhouse

@ UC Davis

Managing greenhouse gas emissions from agricultural soils



*4/23*

Luna Reyes

@ UC Merced

Leverage your coding skills to get your science out there

*4/30*

Ryan Bart

@ UC Merced

Coupling ecohydrology with wildfires



*5/7*

Tracey Osborne

 @ UC Merced

TBD
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