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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Please join us for a talk<b> Today. Oct. 4 </b>by Dr.
</span>Ryan Bart<span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">, 12-1pm in Room SE2-302.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Talk Title: </span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Feedbacks between vegetation change and hydrology in the Sierra Nevada<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Abstract: </span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Vegetation across the Sierra Nevada is in transition. More severe droughts are increasing forest mortality vulnerability, altered wildfire regimes are changing forest fire severity and recovery patterns, and higher temperatures are provoking
an upslope shift for many Sierra vegetation communities. These changes come on top of forest management legacies that have increased the density of many Sierra forests to levels that have not been observed historically. Each of these vegetation changes has
direct consequences on the hydrology of the Sierra Nevada, affecting processes such as interception, evapotranspiration and streamflow. However, quantifying the effect of vegetation change remains challenging due to the tight coupling of vegetation, disturbances
and hydrology in the Sierra Nevada and their associated nonlinearities and threshold behaviors. In this talk, I will discuss my research to disentangle the feedbacks between vegetation change and hydrology in order to better understand how water resources
in the Sierra Nevada may change under climate change. Specifically, I will explore the hydrologic effects of tree-to-shrub type conversion, forest fuel treatments, and changes in wildfire regimes.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Bio:</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Ryan Bart is an ecohydrologist who examines the links between hydrology, vegetation and disturbances under different climate regimes and management practices. He is particularly interested in understanding how wildfire and forest mortality
lead to changes in forest composition/structure and the implication of these changes on water resources. His work involves examining complex coupled-systems using both mechanistic and statistical models, as well as remote sensing and geospatial data. Ryan
received his Ph.D. in 2014 in Geography from a joint doctoral program between the University of California, Santa Barbara and San Diego State University. He is currently a postdoctoral researcher with the Sierra Nevada Research Institute at the University
of California, Merced, having previously worked as a postdoc at the University of California, Berkeley and the University of California, Santa Barbara.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">When: Oct. 4, Thursday, 12pm – 1pm<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Coffee will be provided, please bring your own mugs.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">We look forward to seeing you,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Organizers for Fall 2018: Nate Bogie and Jing Yan<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Faculty coordinator: Asmeret Asefaw Berhe<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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