<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><img src="cid:ii_k8el6grk0" alt="image.png" width="353" height="94"><br><br></div></div><div>Hello all,</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div>
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</div><div><br></div><div></div><div><b><br></b></div><div><b>Title:</b></div><div><b>
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<font size="2"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Climate Change and Wildfire Sufferance among Rural California Residents</span></font></p>
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</div><div><b><br></b></div><div><b>Abstract:</b></div><div><b>
</b><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">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 <i>climate sufferance, </i>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.</span></font><span></span></p>
</div><div><b>Bio:</b></div><div><div><img src="cid:ii_k8el8t5i1" alt="Valdez3.jpg" style="margin-right: 0px;" width="165" height="110"><br></div></div><div><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><b>
</b></span></font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:black">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, <i>The
New Entrepreneurs: How Race, Class and Gender Shape American Enterprise</i>
(Stanford, 2011) and<i> Entrepreneurs and the Search for the American Dream</i>
(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.</span></span></font><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black"><span></span></span></p>
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</span></p><div><div><div><div id="gmail-m_7873093528435469039gmail-:ny"><div id="gmail-m_7873093528435469039gmail-:nx"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>KJ and Yang</div><div><br></div><div>Organizers for Spring 2020: KJ Min and Yang Yang</div><div>Faculty coordinator: Asmeret Asefaw Berhe</div>
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</div><div>------</div><div>You can find the semester schedule below. <br></div><div><br></div><div>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black">Yang Yang <span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:9pt;color:black">@ UC Merced<span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black">Altitudinal patterns of nutrient fluxes and pools at the Sierra
Nevada<span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" align="center"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black">2/13</span></b><b><span style="font-size:12pt"><span></span></span></b></p>
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Yan <span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black">Where
small-scale process matters: linking transport behaviors of nano-sized
colloids and rhizosphere water, nutrient dynamics to soil ecosystem functions</span><span style="font-size:12pt"><span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;color:black">@ Lawrence Berkeley National Lab</span><span style="font-size:12pt"><span></span></span></p>
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dynamic surface-subsurface interactions using reactive transport models<span></span></span></p>
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rhizosphere microbiomes to improve soil health</span><span style="font-size:12pt"><span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:9pt;color:black">@ Lawrence Livermore National Lab</span><span style="font-size:9pt"><span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black">Zulema Valdez <span></span></span></p>
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Residents</span><span style="font-size:12pt"><span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" align="center"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black">4/9</span></b><b><span style="font-size:12pt"><span></span></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black">Caddie
Bergren <span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:9pt;color:black">@ UC
ANR</span><span style="font-size:9pt"><span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black">Climate
smart agriculture<span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" align="center"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black">4/16</span></b><b><span style="font-size:12pt"><span></span></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black">Hannah Waterhouse <span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:9pt;color:black">@ UC Davis</span><span style="font-size:9pt"><span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black">Managing greenhouse gas emissions from agricultural soils<span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" align="center"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black">4/23</span></b><b><span style="font-size:12pt"><span></span></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black">
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black">Luna
Reyes <span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:9pt;color:black">@ UC
Merced</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt"><span><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Leverage
your coding skills to get your science out there</span>
</span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" align="center"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black">4/30</span></b><b><span style="font-size:12pt"><span></span></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black">Ryan Bart <span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:9pt;color:black">@ UC Merced</span><span style="font-size:9pt"><span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black">Coupling ecohydrology with wildfires<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt"><span> </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" align="center"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black">5/7</span></b><b><span style="font-size:12pt"><span></span></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt">Tracey Osborne<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt"><span> </span></span><span style="font-size:9pt">@ UC Merced</span><span style="font-size:9pt"><span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black">TBD</span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div><div>
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