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UC Cooperative Extension ramps up its climate change response

February 1, 2019
Return to UC Cooperative Extension | Agricultural Experiment Station While scientific reports continue to mount confirming that global climate change is increasing temperatures, causing more frequent weather extremes and raising the sea level in California, UC Cooperative Extension is working to ens...
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Zane and Benjamin planting acorns for the UC Santa Cruz study by Dr. Blair McLaughlin of the Zavaleta Lab.
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HREC Youth Volunteers Support Oak Research

January 17, 2019
My name is Valentina Evans, and I am a new volunteer at the UC Hopland Research and Extension Center. My partners Benjamin Evans, and Zane Petersen have chosen to volunteer with me at the HREC for our senior project at Ukiah High School.
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Agritourism Intensive classes start soon in Santa Cruz County

December 12, 2018
UC Cooperative Extension (UCCE) and UC Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program (UC SAREP) in partnership with Santa Cruz, San Mateo and Santa Clara County Farm Bureaus, Santa Cruz Mountains Winegrowers Association, Santa Cruz County Small Business Development Center, Gizdich Ranch and...
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Annemiek Schilder
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Names in the News

December 3, 2018
By Pamela S Kan-Rice
Schilder named director for UCCE Ventura and Hansen REC Annemiek Schilder joined ANR on Aug. 1, 2018, as director of UCCE Ventura County and Hansen Agricultural Research and Extension Center. She hails from the Netherlands, where she grew up in an extended family of dairy and field crop farmers.
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A monarch chrysalis that didn't make it. This image was taken Sept. 15. Said Art Shapiro of UC Davis: "The intersegmental membranes are showing. Whatever caused that, it opens the door to severe water loss, so the pupa will probably die." (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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Monarchs: You Can't Save Them All

November 19, 2018
Monarchs: you can't save them all. It was a dismal year in Vacaville (and other parts of California) for monarch-rearing. Of the 10 caterpillars we collected from milkweed in our pollinator garden in early September and tried to rear, only eight made it.
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